Pneumatic

(nu-mat'-ik). Pertaining to gases or to the atmosphere; pertaining to respiration. P. Cabinet, a device for enclosing the whole or a part of the body so that it may be subjected to compre ed or rarefied air. P. Differentiation, the treatment of disease by inhalation of air more rarefied than that which surrounds the body. P. Malting. See Malting. P. Medicine, the treatment of disease by inhalation of vapors or gases, or by fumigation. P. Occlusion, Maisonneuve's plan of dre ing stumps. It consists in draining away the accumulation from the wound by aspiration. P. Physician, a pneumatist; one of a sect of physicians who regarded health and disease as consisting in the different proportions of an element, pneuma. P. System. See Sewage , Disposal of. P. Trough, a trough partly filled with water for facilitating the collection of gases.