Brown

(brown). A dark reddish-yellow color. B. Atrophy, an atrophy of a ti ue a ociated with a deposit therein of a brown or yellow pigment. B.Coal. See Coal and Lignite. B. Crown, in dentistry, an artificial, all-porcelain crown, which is attached to a natural root by means of an iridioplatinum pin baked in position. The pin has the greatest strength at the neck of the tooth, where the strain is heaviest, and this strength is further increased by extending the porcelain upon the pin. B. Edema. See Edema . B. Induration of Lung, a state of the lung due to long continued congestion, usually arising from marked incompetency or from constriction of the mitral valve. The lungs are enlarged and do not collapse on opening the thorax, and have a peculiar tint of yellow shading into a brown or reddish-brown; a brownish fluid exudes on pre ure. The color is due to pigment-granules in the epithelial cells of the air-vesicles. B. Madder. See Pigments, Conspectus of. B. Mixture. See Mistura ferri compos it a and Glycyrrhiza. B. Ointment, the unguentum fuscum, N. F.; called also unguentum matris, or "mother's salve." It is composed of " brown plaster," two parts; oil, one part; suet, one part. B. Pink. See Pigments, Conspectus of. B. Plaster, the emplastrum fuscum camphor a tum, N. F.; called also emplastrum matris camphor a tum, or " camphorated mother's plaster; " official in German pharmacy. It is made of red oxid of lead, thirty parts; oil of olives, sixty parts; yellow wax, fifteen parts; camphor, one part. B. Study. See Cenospudia . B. Wort, the plant Brunella vulgar is, popularly reckoned a good vulnerary, as well as a cure for sore-throat. Unof. Brown's Operation. See Operations, Table of.