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  • POISONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/POISON

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

  • ANTIDOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDOTE

    ANTIDOTE, a Remedy taken either to prevent or cure Contagion. See PHYSIC, CONTAGION, PRESERVATIVE, etc. The Word Antidote is also used to signify a Medicine taken to prevent the ill Effects of some other, for instance, Poison. See POISON. In this Sense,...

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

  • ALEXIPHARMIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALEXIPHARMIC

    ALEXIPHARMIC, in Medicine, expresses that Property which a Remedy, either simple or compound, has to resist, or destroy everything of a poisonous Nature: For the Ancients had a Notion, that there was Poison in all malignant Diseases, and in the...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    in close, subterraneous Places, particularly Mines, Pitts, Cellars, &c. For the Rationale of the Effects of Damps, See POISONS and MEPHITES. The Damps in Mines are of 4 Kinds : The first which withal is the most ordinary, the Workmen apprehend in its...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    would not be so absurd, did he not ascribe understanding to this Archaeus: setting this aside, the principle which renders poisons deadly, and remedies beneficial, is the circulation of the blood. See CIRCULATION and BLOOD. ARCHAEUS

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

  • ACONITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACONITE

    ACONITE, Aconitum, a plant famous among the Ancients, both in quality of a Poison and a Remedy. See POISON. The ancient Botanists give the name Aconite to several plants of different kinds. One species they called Lycoctonum, Austerit, Wolfsbane, or...

    • 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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    ANTIMONY, Antimonium, in Natural History, a Mineral Substance, of a Metallic Nature; having all the seeming Characters of a real Metal, excepting Malleability. See MINERAL and METAL. Antimony is what we properly call a Semi-Metal; being a Fossil Glebe,...

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

  • AGAThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AGAT

    AGAT, Acuarius, in natural history, a precious stone, partly transparent, and partly opaque. See PRECIOUS STONE, and GEM. The first agats were said to have been found in Sicily, along the banks of the river Achares; whence, some will have it, the name...

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

  • AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI

    AVERNI, among the ancient Naturalists, certain Lakes, Grottoes, and other Places which infect the Air with poisonous Steams or Vapours; called also Mephites. See MEPHITES, AIR, POISON, etc. The Word is Latin, formed of the Greek privative, α, and ὄρνις,...

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

  • ACTIVITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVITY

    ACTIVITY, the Power of Acting, or the Active Faculty.See FACULTY, etc. The activity of Fire exceeds all imagination. — The activity of an Acid, a Poison, etc. — Bodies, according to Sir Isaac Newton, derive their activity from the Principle of...

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    ANGELICA, called also ARCHANGELICA, and Radix Angelica, a medicinal Plant, thus named, on account of its great Virtue as an Alexipharmic or Counterpoison. See ALEXIPHARMIC. It is of a sweet Smell, and aromatic Taste; and is loaded with a highly exalted...

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