Destruction by ulceration.
Eustachian Tubes.
The canal connecting the ear with the throat.
Exanthemata.
Eruptive fevers.
Excoriation
Abrasion of the skin
Faradization
applying faradic or induced electricity
Febricula
Simple fever
Femur
The thigh bone
Fibro-cartilage
A substance intermediate between cartilage and ligament, which constitutes the base of the ears, the rings of the windpipe, etc.
Fluctuation.
The undulations of fluid in the cavity.
Fontanelles.
The cartilaginous spaces in the head of an infant at the juncture of the bones
Gangrene.
Mortification
Gastric
Pertaining to the stomach
Gonorrhoea
A contagious discharge from the urinary organs.
Haematuria
Passing blood with the urine.
Haemorrhage.
Loss of blood
Heartburn
A hot sensation in pit of stomach
Homogeneous
Consisting of similar elements.
Hygienic
Relating to the preservation of health
Ileum
The lower three-fifths of the small bowels.
Incubation
The time between the reception of a poison and the occurrence of its action.
Innervation.
The functions of the nervous system
Insomnia
Restlessness in sleep
Lachrymation.
A profuse secretion of tears
Lactation.
The process of secreting and supplying milk, of nursing, or suckling.
Larynx
The upper part of the air passage
Leptothrix Buccalis.
A parasitic plant
Lesion
An injury or disease of some organ or tissue
Leucorrhoea.
Whites
Ligamentum teres.
The round ligament connecting the thigh and hip bones
Lymph
The fluid in the lymphatic vessels.
Mammae.
Breasts
Meatus
The ear canal
Membrana Tympani
The drum of the ear
Mesenteric Glands
The lymphatic glands of the small intestine
Miasm
Contagious effluvia
Molars.
The double or grinding teeth
Mucous Membrane
The lining membrane of the digestive organs
Nates
The buttocks
Nidus
A nest
Oedema
Local dropsy of cellular tissue
Orbicularis Palpebrarum –
A small muscle which closes and protects the eye.
Otorrhoea
Discharge from the ear.
Ozaena.
Foetid discharge from the nose.
Pabulum
Food, or means of substience. Usually spoken of in regard to the germ theory of contagion. Those who are susceptible to a disease are said to affort “pabulum” for the disease germ to subsist of contagion.Those who are susceptible to a disease are said to afford “pabulum”for the disease germ to subsist upon and multiply. The phrase “a suitable soil” is sometimes a used instead.
Parotitis.
Mumps
Pathological
Characteristic of disease
Pedunculated
Having a peduncle or stalk
Pericarditis
Inflammation of the sac which surrounds the heart.
Peritonitis
Inflammation of the lining of the abdominal cavity
Pertussis
Whooping-cough
Ptyalism.
Salivation; increased flow of saliva
Phymosis.
Swelling of the foreskin
Pneumo-gastric Nerve
The eighth pair of nerves, distributed to the lungs and stomach.
Pneumatic Aspirator
An instrument for drawing out fluids from closed cavities. If consists of a hollow needle which is thrust into the cavity, the needle being attached to an air pump, the action of which draws out the fluid.
Prophylactic
Preventive
Purulent
Of the character of pus
Psychical.
Relating to the mental and moral faculties
Rales
Whistling, cooing, or rattle in the chest
Rectum
Terminal part of the bowel
Regimen.
Rule of diet.
Resolution
The subsidence of inflammation without suppuration, etc.; the dispersion of swelling.
Rima Glottidis
The aperture of the windpipe
Roseola
Scarlet red
Rubeola
Measles.
Salivation
See Ptyalism
Secretion
Fluid separated from the blood.
Sensorium
The centre of perception in the brain
Sequelae
Secondary disease following another
Serum
The watery portion of the blood
Sloughing
The mortifying or dying of the tissues.
Sordes.
Accumulation of dried and discoloured mucus on the teeth
Sporules and Spores.
The reproductive part of the seed.
Sputa
The spittle, or expectoration
Stamina
Inherent force or vitality
Stasis
Standing, stagnation
Struma
Scrofula
Styptic
An astringent
Suppuration formation of pus
Sutures
The junction of the bones of the skull
Syncope
Fainting
Synovial Membrane
A membrane attached to tendons and lining joints, and secreting a kind of lubricating oil-and synovial fluid.
Syphilis
A venereal poison
Tabes Mesenterica
Consumption of the bowels
Tenesmus
Straining of the bowels after a motion
Trachea
The lower part of the windpipe.
Tubercle
The early deposit in the organs of scrofulous and consumptive persons.
Tuberculosis
The morbid state that gives rise to tubercles.
Tubular Firils
Minute or ultimate fibres.
Turgescence.
Swelling from excess of fluid.
Tympanitic
Distended like a drum
Tympanum
The drum of the ear
Ulcers
Open sores
Uvula
The pendulous body which hangs from the middle of the soft palate
Variola
Smallpox
Vascular
Abounding in blood-vessels
Vertebrae.
The spine bones
Vesicles
Pimples contaning fluid
Virus
Poison
Vulva
The external female genitals
Zymotic (leaven).
Contagious diseases.
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS; LICENTIATE IN MIDWIFERY, LONDON AND EDINBURGH, ETC. PHYSICIAN TO THE READING AND BERKSHIRE HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.
Author of "The Stepping Stone to Homeopathy and Health,"
"Manual of Homoeopathic Treatment". Editor of "The Homoeopathic World."