Cyclopædia
Assuming evacuant is required, the following 10 results were found.
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EVACUANTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EVACUANTS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALTERANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALTERANT
without occasioning any sensible Evacuation. See MEDICINE. Under Alterants, therefore, come all Medicines which are not Evacuants. See EVACUANT, and EVACUATION. 'Tis a Point much questioned by some, whether there really be any such thing as an Alterant...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION
ABORTION, in Medicine, an immature Exclusion of the Fœtus ; or the Delivery of a Woman with Child, before the legitimate Term ; popularly call'd Miscarriage. See DELIVERY, &c. This may happen at any time of Pregnancy; but is before the second Month...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY
APOPLEXY, in Medicine, a sudden Privation of all the Senses, and all the sensible Motions of the Body, excepting that of the Heart and Lungs; attended with a great Depravation of the principal Faculties of the Soul. See SENSATION, MOTION, etc. It...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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ABSCESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSCESS
in Medicine and Chirurgery, a Tumor arising on divers Parts of the Body, and tending to Suppuration. See TUMOR, SUPPURATION, &c. Abscesses arise from Colledions of peccant Humours in the internal Parts of the Body; and are also called Imposthumes.See...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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Medicinehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine
MEDICINE, including the Consideration of LIFE and HEALTH; Conditions thereof, Longevity, Strength, Temperament, &c. Means, as Food, Drink, Exercise, &c. Opposites, as Death, Disease, &c. Kinds hereof, Chronic, Epidemic, Contagious, &c. as Plague,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
ABSTINENCE, Abstinencia, the Habit of restraining or containing one's self from some Pleasure, or Enjoyment. See PLEASURE. The Word is compounded of the Latin abs, from ; and teneo, I hold. The Jews were oblig'd to abstain from their Wives at certain...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS
in Natural History,are noxious Steams,or Exhalations, frequently sound 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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION
ANIMAL SECRETION is the Act whereby the divers Juices of the Body are secreted or separated from the common Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified