Black

(blak) [AS., blcec\ Characterized by an absence of color. The appearance of an object from the surface of which none of the spectrum colors are reflected. B. Alder. See Prinos. B. Antimony, an tim onium tersulphid, SbS3. B. Ash, the bark of v Fraxinus sambucifolia, a mild tonic and astringent. Dose of fid. ext. f^ -j (2.0— 4.0). Unof. B. Blood, venous blood. B. Cohosh. See Cimicifuga. B. -damp, carbon dioxid gas, which is found in greater or le quantity in all collieries, being given off by many coals, either mixed with fire-damp, or separately, or produced in various other ways, as by the exhalations of the miners, by fires, and by explosions of fire-damp. Also called choke-damp. B. Death. See Plague. B. Disease, a disease of malarial origin and pernicious course, characterized by extreme darkening of the skin, which maybe brown or black in color. It occurs in the Garo Hills in A am. B. Draught. See Senna. B.Drop. See Oj>ium. B. Erysipelas. Synonym of Anthrax. B. Eye, livor (or sugillatio) oculi; ecchymosis of the ti ues about the eye, usually from injury. B. Haw. See Viburnum. B.-head. See Comedo. B. Hellebore. See Hellebore. B. Jaundice, an exce ive jaundice arising from obstruction of the gall-ducts. The color of the skin is greenish-black. B. Lead, a form of carbon properly known as the mineral graphite. B.-Leg, a febrile, generally fatal disease chiefly affecting cattle and sheep, which is characterized by the rapid appearance of irregular nodules in the skin and muscular ti ues, that’ are at first tense and very painful, but rapidly become painle and crepitating. Tt is caused by the Bacillus chauvsei, or B. of Symptomatic Anthrax. It is also called Symptomatic Anthrax. B. Measles, rubeola nigra; a grave or malignant form of measles. B. Pepper. See Piper nigrum. B. Phthisis, a synonym of Miner’s Phthisis. B. Sickne , cerebrospinal fever. B. Snake -root. See Cimicifuga. B. Spauld. See Black-Leg. B. Spit. See Miner’s Phthisis. B. Tongue. I. A name given to a condition characterized by the formation upon the dorsum of the tongue of a hair-like deposit that pa es through various stages of coloration from yellow to brown and finally black, ultimately disappearing by desquamation as gradually as it came. Repeated recurrence is the rule. It is probably an undue proliferation of the epithelium, the result of irritation. 2. A term applied to erysipelatous glo itis. B. Vomit, the coffee-ground vomit of yellow fever, etc. B. Walnut, the leaves of Juglans nigra, a tonic, alterative, and deobstruent. Dose of fid. ext. TTL xx-xxx (1.3-2.0). Unof. B. “Wash. See Hydrargyrum. B. Willow, the buds of Salix nigra, a bitter tonic with aphrodisiac properties. Dose of fld. ext. TT^ xv-f^j (1.0-4.0). Unof. 150