HYSSOP

The name of a genus of plants including the common hy op (Ily opus officinal is), formerly used in medicine as a stimulant and expectorant. HYSTEROTOMY. {Gr.vo-ne»,'the womb; n/jt-vuv, to cut.) The extraction of the foetus from the uterus. The Cesarean operation. I. lATRALEIPTES. (Gr./«T§«?, aphtjsicianj xXiupu^ I anoint.) A physician who cured diseases by external remedies only, as by friction, inunction, . There was among the Greeks a sect of locr^oXuTTKi founded by Prodicus, a disciple of Esculapius. lAT ROM ATHEMATIC I. (Gr.;«rg»?, and /MtvOctvai, I learn.) Physicians who explain the functions of the body, and the action of remedies on mechanical principles. These doctrines seem to have originated with Asclepiades, and in modern times were promulgated by Borelli as founded on the atomic'philosophy of Des cartes. [s. 1394]