Calefaction

[Lat. calefactio.] Art or operation of making warm or hot. - State of being heated or hot. Calefactor, n. A small stove. (R.) Calefactory, a. [Lat. calefactor i us.] That which heats, or communicates heat. Caldwell, or Caldwell Prairie, in Wisconsin , a post-village of Racine co., 25 m. S.W. of Milwaukee. Caldwell, CHARLES, an American physician and med i- cal writer, B. in Orange co., North Carolina, in 1772. He studied medicine at Philadelphia, and, in 1795, began his career as an author by translating from the Latin, Blumenbach's Elements of Physiology. His writings soon became numerous. In 1819 he became profe or of the institutes of medicine in Transylvania University, Calembourg, ( kal'am - bōōrg ,) n. [Fr.] A French ex- Lexington, Ky. He subsequently founded a medical school in Louisville, and D. there in 1853.