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in tertians and quartans, before the coming on of the fit ; and Alexander Trallian has been very earned in the recommend- ing them on this occafion. The pratlice is highly confonant with reafon, and all the known rules, and may be of great ad- vantage not only in thefe, but in many other cafes, in which it is not at prefent thought of.

Dr Harris has obferved of the antimomal vomits, that they are' very fafe in the heat of fummer, but very dangerous in colder feafons. This author alfo recommends a decoction of the herb digitalis, or fox-glove, as a very fafe, though power- ful Emetic ; and there is an account of another plant, ufually efteemed of the dangerous kind, that is, the common creep- ing meadow crowfoot, from which a very fafe and efficacious Bmtic is to he prepared, and has been admimftered in many parts of England with great fuccefs. The method of pre- paring it is only by diftilling, in the common way, a fimplc water from the plant ; this is very acrid and pungent to the tafte, and requires to be lowered, cither by drawing a very lar^e quantity from a little of the herb, or elfe by mixing common water with it. The method of giving it is this : Let the patient drink about a quart of warm water, then give an ounce of this diftilled water, and the whole will be imme- diately brought up with great eafe ; and the whole op-a- is then over for that dofe, and the water and medicine are again to be repeated as often as is judged neceffary. Har- ris's Differtation.

If vomits operate too violently, common fait is a well known remedy. This feldom fails to check or flop them. Mild aromatics and opiates alfo have the fame efTeS, and corrobo- rating medicines, either taken internally, or applied by way of cataplafm, or embrocation, to the region of the flomach. Dr. Shaw thinks the moft fafe, gentle, and agreeable Emetic yet known, is an infufion of the ipecacuanha root in white wine, without heat. This is made by putting two drams of the root, in fine powder, into half a pint of white Liibon wine, and, after fending two days, adding a frefh quan- tity of wine to the remaining powder, when this is poured clear off. Thefe wines are to be mixed together, and given in a dofe fuited to the ftrength of the patierit. This is greatly preferable to the vimim benedicr.um, emetic tartar, and all the medicines of a like kind, which are attended with danger and uncertainty in their operation ; and while we have this, there is no reafon why all the violent Emetics mould not be wholly difcarded the praflice of phyfic. Shaw's Leflures, p. 221.

Emetic Wins. — Small dofes of emetic wine have been recom- mended as deobftrucnt and fudorific in flow fevers, in many chronical difeafes, and especially in an obftinate rheumatifm. See Medic. Eff. Edinb. Abr. VoL |. p. 170. and Huxham, Obf. dc Aere & Morb. epiderru

EMEU, in zoology, the common name of the caffowary, a large bird of the oltrich kind. See the article Cassowary.

EMIR Hodge, the name of a highly dignified office in the caitern nations. He is the prince of the pilgrims that go to Mecca ; and is named yearly from Conftantinople, tho' he is generally left two years in his office to make amends for his great expence in equipage in the firft ; and fometimes, if he have capacity, and intereft at the porte, he is continued fix years, but rarely longer, for if they condufi the caravan feven years, the Grand Seignior prcfents them with a collarof gold, and it is faid that their perfons, after this, become facred, and they cannot be publicity cut oft'. This officer has command over the eftates that go to Mecca. The perquifites of his office, befide what he is allowed by the porte, confift in having a tenth of the effefls of all the pilgrims who die in the journey. Poceck's Egypt, p. 165.

EMISSARIUM, in antiquity, a iluice, or drain, to draw off the water ufed in watering gardens, fields, tfc. Pitifc. Lex. Ant. in voc.

EMITES, in natural hiftory, the name ufed, by fome authors, for the chermites, a beautiful fpecics of white marble, of which the tomb of Darius, and many other of the great works of antiquity were made. It was valued for its fine polifh.

EMMELIA, 'E^f/.£'Xd«, in antiquity, a dance peculiar to tra- gedy, which had all that gravity and dignity that was fuitable to the action then representing, and was defigned to infpire the audience with fentiments of companion and benevolence for the unfortunate and oppreiled, with indignation againft the guilty, and with love for virtue, and abhorrence for vice. The movements of fuch. a dance as this, muft have been very folemn and majeftic, and have bore a great affinity to the action of an orator ; it was the only one, excepting the military dances, that had the approbation of Plato. Mem. Acad. Infcript. Vol. 2. p. 160. See Dance,. Cycl.

EMMIELLURE, in the manege, a kind of compofition of honey, and other ingredients, ufed for fprains and fhoulder- fplaits of horfes. See Charge.

The word is French, derived from miel, honey, which is a part of the compofition.

EM'ODIA, in medicine, a word ufed, by fome authors, to ex- prefs a ftupor of the teeth.

EMPATTEMENT, in fortification, a term ufed by fome to

denore the fame with talus. See Talus, Cycl. EMPEROR, {Cycl) among Hebrew grammarians, is an ap- pellation given to a fpecies of accents ferving to terminate a fenfe compleatlv, and anfvvers to our point. See Accent, Cycl. ' t

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EMPETRON, in botany, a name by which fome authors, aa Dodonasus, bV. have called the kali, or glafswort. Qer* Emac. Ind 2. See Kali.

EMPETRUM, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are thefe : The flower is of the apctalous kind, confuting of a number of ftamina ; but thefe are barren, the fruit appearing in other parts of the fame pl-ants. Thefe refemble berries, and contain two or three hard or cartilagi- nous feeds.

The fpecies of Empetrum, enumerated by Mr. Tourr.cfort, are thefe: 1. The black-fruited mountain Empetrum, called berry-bearing heath, and 2. The white-fruited Portugal Em- petrum. Town. Iirit. p. 579.

Empetrum is alfo a name ufed, by fome authors, for the alypum, commonly called herb terrible. Chabrtsus y

P-48. EMPHRACTIC, {Cycl) E>nphra£lica> in medicine, a name applied to fuch external remedies as, applied to any part of the body, adhere firmly, and flop the pores, EMPHRAXIS, in medicine, an obftruction in any part. EMPHRUE, in botany, the name given, by the people of Guinea, to a fpecies of tree, the leaves of which they boil in wine, and give, as a great reftorative, in cafes of weaknefs and decay. Its leaves are exactly of the fhape of thofe of the com- mon mulberry, but they are not indented at the edge. Petiver has thence called it arbor Guineeniis mori folio iion crenato. Philof. Tranf. N°. 232. EMPHYSEMA, (Cycl.) in furgery, a name given to any fla- tulent tumour, but peculiarly appropriated, by fome writers, to a foft tumour, arifing from air contained in the cavities of the membrana ccllulofa. Hippocrates ufes the word to exprefs an inflation of the belly, and in fome parts of his writings, in a more general fenfe, for any tumour. EMPIS, in natural hiftory, the name given, by authors, to a large fpecies of gnat, found about rivers and ponds - y it is diftinguifhed from all the other kinds, by a circle of white palling round the middle of its body. EMPLASTRUM Attrahens, the;drawing plafter, a pLiftez order- ed, in the lateLondon pharmacopoeia, to fupply the place of the melilot plafter, in the drefling of blifters. The college are fatisficd that the herb is of no fort of ufe in the compolition, and that very grofs abufes are praclifed to give the green co- lour to the plafter ; for which reafon they have ordered the plafter to be now made in this manner : Take yellow refm, and yellow wax, of each three pound j tried mutton fuet y one pound ; melt all together, and itrain while it is hot. Pemberton's Lond. Difp. p. 351- Emplastrum Commune, a name given, in the new London pharmacopoeia, to what has been long called diachylon pla- fter. The apothecaries had been long ufed to make this by a fhorter way than was prefcribed them, and the college has now authorized that method,, ordering it to be made of only a gallon of oil of olives, and five pounds of litharge, boiled together with about a quart of water, to keep them from burning till they are perfectly mixed, and have the confidence of a plafter. Pemberton's Lond. Difp. p. 352. Emplastrum ex Ammonicaco cum Mercuric, a form of me- dicine, in the late London difpenfatory, ordered to be pre- pared m the following manner :

Take gum ammoniacum ftrained, a pound ; quickfilver, three ounces ; fimple balfam of fulphur, a dram. Rub the quickfilver with the balfam of fulphur, till it no longer ap- pear, then add, by degrees, the gum ammoniac melted, and almoft cooled again, and make the whole into a plafter. Pembertotfs, Lond. Difp. p. 351. Emplastrum Roborans, the ftrengthening plafter, a form prefcribed in the London difpenfatory, and ordered to be made thus: Take of the common plafter two pound, of frank- incenfe half a pound, of dragon's blood three ounces ; melt the plafter, and then add to it the other ingredients in powder. Pemberton's Lond.. Difp. p. 358. EMPNEUMATOSIS, in medicine, a word ufed, by fome writers, to fignify an inflation of the ftomach ; but by others^ in a more general fenfe, for inflations of the womb, or of any other part. EMPORIUM, in medicine, is often ufed for the common fen-

fory in the brain. See Brain. EMPRION, in the medical writings of the antlents, a word ufed to denote a peculiar pulfe, in which the artery is felt to be diftended in one part more than in another, at every ftroke a and, by that means, is made to refemble any ferrated body, or the light teeth of a fine faw. EMPTOR Fa?mlicr y Buyer of a Family^, in the Roman law, he who purchafed the inheritance of a perfon, or the privilege of being appointed his heir by will.

This was done with the ceremony of fcales and weights, before five witnefles, with the ufe of a peculiar formula of words.

Such buyer differed from the heir, hares, as the teftator, in fome meafure, alienated the right to the former, during his own life-time ; whereas the latter had. only a right by his death. Brijfon. de Formul. 1. 7. p. 5 g<j. pitifc. Lex. Ant. T. 1. p. 713, voc. Emptor. Emptor Fiduciaries, Fiduciary Buyer, he who receives a thing, ia the way of pledge, till the money he has advanced

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