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  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    is reputed of some medicinal Efficacy; being used in Suffumigations, to remove Defluxions; and in Powder, as an Alterant, Absorbent, Sweetener, and Astringent. See SUFFUMIGATION, ABSORBENT, ASTRINGENT, etc. In times of Plague, those who work in Amber at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • Medicinehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine

    &c. Kinds hereof, Specific, Purgative, Emetic, Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Alterative, Styptic, Astringent, Emollient, Opiate. Absorbent, Caustic, Anodyne, Sympathetic. Cardiac, Cephalic, Febrifuge. Antimonial, Chalybeat, Mercurial, and the like. Operations,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    &c. Kinds hereof, Specific, Purgative, Emetic, Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Alterative, Styptic, Astringent, Emollient, Opiate. Absorbent, Caustic, Anodyne, Sympathetic. Cardiac, Cephalic, Febrifuge. Antimonial, Chalybeat, Mercurial, and the like. Operations,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    from the Latin Lumen, Light; because it adds a Lustre to Colours. Allum is of some use in Medicine, in quality of an Absorbent; but being apt to excite Vomiting, is not much used inwardly, and rarely without some smooth Aromatic, as a Corrector.—It is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACIDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACIDITY

    with Alkaline bodies. Thus, Minium destroys the acidity of Spirit of Vinegar; Lapis Calaminaris that of Sea Salt, etc. See ABSORBENT, etc. ACIDITY

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABSORBENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSORBENTS

    ABSORBENTS, in Medicine, Remedies which by the Softness or Porosity of their component Parts, become proper to sheath the Asperities of sharp pungent Humors ; or to imbibe or dry away, as with a Sponge, superfluous Moistures. Such are the Testaceous...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    Effect of Fire. See CUPPEL. The Fluid Parts of Animals are the cruder as they are less distant from the Lacteals, and absorbent Vessels. Thus Chyle is little else but a vegetable Juice; but in its farther progress, gradually lays aside its vegetable...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    ACID, Acidum, anything which affects the Tongue with a Sense of Sharpness, and Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    ARSENIC, Arsenicum, in natural history, a ponderous mineral substance, extremely caustic or corrosive, to the degree of a violent poison. See FOSSIL, CORROSIVE, etc. The word is compounded of the Greek ἀρσεν, man, and νικᾶ, I overcome, kill; alluding to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History
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