Absorbent: absorbing or sucking in noxious matter

Abstergent or detergent: cleaning foul ulcers and sores

Allopathic: regular physicians in practice

Alterative: producing a change in the whole system, or altering the appearance of local disease

Alvine: belonging to the belly or intestines

Amenorrhea: suppression of menses, especially from causes other than age or pregnancy

Analgesic: pain reliever that does not produce loss of consciousness

Anodyne: soothing the nerves, allaying pain, similar to sedative and nervine

Anthelmintic: expelling worms from the body

Antipyretic: an agent relieving or reducing fever

Antispasmodic: medicines which relieve spasms

Aperient: promoting excretions

Aphthous: an eruption, ulceration in the mouth

Ascites: a kind of dropsy

Astringents: substances that contract organic tissue and lessen secretion

Atony: debility, weakness of any organ

Balsam: the gum of the tree Balsamodendron Gileadense or Opobalsamum of Middle east

Balsamic: a mild healing stimulant

Bloody flix, bloody flux: morbid or excessive discharge of blood, a flowing out, or dysentery

Cachexia: a morbid state of the body

Cacochymia: a morbid state of the fluids of the body

Calculus: stones in the bladder

Calomel: mercurous chloride used as a purgative

Cantharides: Spanish flies, blistering beetles, Cantharis vesicatoria put on the body externally to produce blister, if taken internally an irritant poison

Cardiac glycosides: substances having a stimulating effect on the heart.

Cardiacal: acting on the heart, increasing its muscular action.

Carminative: local stimulant, expelling wind from the stomach.

Catamenia: the menses.

Cataplasm: a poultice

Catarrh: inflammation of the upper respiratory tract with mucus discharge

Cathartic: catharsis or purgative, a medicine that cleans the bowels

Cephalic: of the head

Chancre: a venereal ulcer or sore

Cholera infantum: enterocolitis of infants

Chologogue, chologogic: purging the bile

Cholorosis: the green sickness, a peculiar form of anemia which afflicts young women at the onset of puberty.

Chorea: a nervous disease with spasmodic, irregular movements that are uncontrollable

Cicatrisant: process of healing in wounds

Cinchona: bark of a south American treee of genus Cinchona which contains quinine

Clyster: an injection of a liquid substance into the lower intestine

Colophony: dark resin distilled from turpentine

Corroborant: a medicine that strengthens the human body when weak

Corysza: a bad cold in the head

Cystitis: inflammation of the bladder

Cytitis: a skin

Decoction: any medicine made by boiling a substance in water to extract its virtues

Demulcent: a mucilaginous medicine which sheaths the tender and raw surfaces of diseased parts

Deobstruant: any medicine which removes obstructions and opens the natural passages of the fluids of the body

Depurant, depuration: cleansing from impure matter

Desquamation: scaling of the skin as in scarlet fever

Detergent, detersive: a medicine that cleanses the vessels or skin of impure matter

Diaphoresis, diaphoretics: those medicines which increase the natural exhalation by the skin, when they excite this so copiously as to produce sweat, they are termed sudorifics

Diarrhea: a morbidly frequent evacuation of the intestines, excessive looseness of the bowels

Diluent: that which increases the proportion of water in the blood

Discutient: a medicine which scatters a swelling or tumor or any coagulated fluid or body

Diuretic, diurient, diuresis: a medicine which increases the discharge of urine

Dropsy: a morbid accumulation of water liquid in any cavity of the body or tissues

Dysnoe, dysneic: difficulty in breathing

Dysuria, dysury: painful urination

Eclectic: physicians who borrow treatment from all schools of medicine such as the allopaths, botanic, homeopathic etc.

Electuary: a medicine composed of sugar or honey and some powder or other ingredient

Emmenagogue, menagogue: those substances which are capable of promoting menstrual discharge.

Empiric: botanic physicians and other who experimented with different drugs

Empyreumatic: pertaining to or having the taste or smell of slightly burned animal or vegetable substances

Epipastic: local stimulant acting on the skin to produce blisters

Ergot: the fungus Claviceps purpurea on grain used to accelerate childbirth

Errhine: substances which promote sneezing and discharge from the nose

Eructations: belching

Erysipelas: local disease producing a deep red color in the skin

Escharotic: substances which erode or dissolve the animal solids

Exanthema: eruptive diseases which are accompanied by fever

Fauces: the back part of the throat

Febrifuge: a medicine which drives away fever by producing sweat

Flix or flux: diarrhea, looseness, see bloddy flux or flix

Fluour albus: see leuccorhea

Galatogogue: a medicine which promotes secretion of milk in the breast

Gastralgia: stomach ache

Gravel: small stones and sand resembling gravel which form in the kidneys

Gravid: pregnant

Hematosis: a morbid quantity of blood

Hematuria, haematuria: presence of blood in the urine

Hemoptysis: spitting of blood

Hemostatic: an agent that arrests bleeding

Hepatic: useful in diseases of the liver.

Herpes: an eruption on the skin, produced by the herpes simplex virus

Hipped: fungous growth on the hip joint of a horse

Hydragogue: a purgative that causes watery discharges from the bowel

Hydropic: a dropsical person, medicine that cures dropsy

Infusion: medicine prepared by steeping substances in either cold or hot water

Inspissated: a fluid substance rendered thicker by evaporation.

Laske: looseness, flux, diarrhea

Leucorrhea: a white vaginal discharge by females, fluor albus

Lithontriptics: medicines which are supposed to have the power of dissolving urinary stones

Menorhea: normal menstrual flow, menorrhagia

Menstruum: a dissolvent, any liquid used to extract the medical virtues from soft substances

Morbid: diseased, not sound or healthy

Mucus: a sticky, slimy substance secreted by the mucous membranes

Narcotic: substance inducing drowsiness, sleep, stupor or insensibility, often administered to allay pain

Nephritic: local stimulant to the kidneys

Nervine: acting particularly on the nerves, soothing pain, promoting sleep

Odontalgic: allaying or curing toothache

Officinal: herb or drug used in medicine or the arts, often made from recipes in Pharmacopoeias

Ophthalmia: inflammation of the eye

Opthalmic: useful in diseases of the eye

Oxytocic: hastening childbirth

Papillomatous: having small nipple-like protuberances in a part or organ of the body

Parturition: the act of childbirth

Pectoral: useful in diseases of the breast and lungs

Pellant: or repellant: repelling morbid fluids

Pertussis: cough

Porrigo; Excema of the scalp

Phthisis: consumption, TB

Pyretic: feverish of, for or producing fever

Pyrosis: a peculiar disease of the stomach called water brash

Pytalish: poisoning by taking too much mercury such as calomel

Refrigerant: cooling, lessening the heat of the body, allaying local or general inflammation

Resolvant, resolutive: promoting suppuration of ulcers or tumors

Rubefacient: an application which produces redness of the skin with heat

Salt Rheum: a vague, indefinite popular name applied to almost all non feverish skin eruptions which are common among adults, except perhaps ringworm

Scorbutic: of the nature of scurvy

Scrofulous: a scaly skin

Scurvy: a disease now known to be due to Vitamin C deficiency

Sialogogue: medicines which incite an increased flow of saliva

Simple: a plant that is used to treat a disease by itself and not in combination with other plants

Specific: a medicine which acts specifically to cure one particular disease

Sternutatory: substances which promote sneezing

Stimulant: a medicine which acts by stimulating some part of the body

Stomachic: a strengthening medicine for the stomach, exciting its action

Strangury: a painful and difficult discharge of urine

Styptic: a medicine which coagulates the blood and stops bleeding

Strumous: scrofulous, scurfy

Sudorific: those medicines which increase the natural exhalation by the skin so copiously as to produce sweat

Suppurate: to form pus as in a boil

Syncope: fainting or swooning

Tetanic convulsions: convulsions and death resulting from a nervine or narcotic administered in an overdose

Tetters: cutaneous eruption, scurf, eczema, impetigo, herpes

Tincture: a medicine in which the virtue of the plant is extracted by alcohol

Tonic: those substances which give strength to the whole system

Topical: a remedy acting by external application

Tympanites: dropsy of the belly

Vermifuge: agent that expels worms from the intestines

Vesicatory: raising blisters on the skin

Vulnerary: medicines used for the cure of wounds