cataplasm a

(kat-ah-plaz'mah). Cataplasm, poultice, t. alu'mims, alum, poultice, made by adding 2 drams of powdered alum to the whites of two eggs and coagulating; cooUng and astringent, u. carbo'nis, charcoal poultice, made by macerating 2 ounces of bread crumbs, iJ ounces of linseed meal, and i ounce of charcoal in 10 ounces of water and spreading J otmce charcoal over the surface before application; deodorant and emollient. t. caro'tae, c. dau'ci, carrot poultice, made with 4 ounces scraped carrot and i ounce of cornmeal, c. fermen'ti, yeast poultice, made with 6 ounces each of beer yeast and water and 14 ounces wheaten flour, or 2 ounces yeast, j pint milk, and powdered slippery elm bark; stimulant and deodorant, c. kaoli'ni (N.F.), clay poultice, made of kaolin 577.0, boric acid 45.0, thymol 0.5, methyl salicylate 2.0, oil of peppermint u.5, glycerin 375.0, applied in inflammatory conditions, c. li'ni, flaxseed or linseed poultice, made with 4 ounces linseed meal in 10 ounces boiling water, c. lobe'Use, lobelia poultice, equal parts of powdered lobelia and slippery elm bark made into a poultice with warm weak lye, employed to relax spasm. c. slna'pis, mustard poultice, mustard plaster made by forming a paste of ground mustard, 171 mixed with more or le flour or com meal according to the strength desired, t. so'dae chlorin a'tae, chlorine or chlorinated soda poultice, made by adding 2 ounces of solution of chlorinated soda to 4 ounces of linseed meal and 8 ounces of boiling water; stimulant and deodorant, c. stramo'nii, stramonium poultice, made by bruising fresh stramonium leaves and adding enough hot water to make a paste; employed in myalgia and neuralgia, c. syru'pi fus'ci, mola es poultice, made by mixing flour and mola es to make a soft paste, used as an application to bums and scalds. A cat'aract [G. katarrhaktes, a trap-door.] lo of transparency of the crystalline lens of the eye, or of its capsule, after c, secondary c. arbores'cent t., one in which the opacity has an appearance of branching lines. ar"idosil'iquate c, ar'idosilic'ulose c, ar"idosil'iquose c, sUiculose c. az'ial c, nuclear c. black c, one in which the lens is hardened and of a dark brown color, blood c, the presence of a blood-clot anterior to the lens, blocking the pupil, cap's ular t., one in which the opacity affects the capsule only. cap"sulolentic'ular c, one in which both the lens and its capsule are involved; membranous u. ca's eous c, an overripe c. which has undergone cheesy degeneration, cen'tral c, nuclear c. complete' c, one involving the entire lens. com i'pUcated c, secondary c.(i). cor'tical c, one in which the opacity affects the cortex of the lens, dry-shell t., siliculose c. fi'broid c, a sclerotic hardening of the capsule of the lens, flu'id c, an overripe c. which has become liquefied, fu's iform c, spindle c. gla 'worker's c, one occurring in gla makers and supposed to be due to the glare from the molten gla , green 'C, glaucoma. hard c, phacosclerosis, hyper mature' c, overripe u., one in which the sclerotic changes have progre ed until the whole ma is shrunken, dry, and very hard (phacosclerosis), or in which the cortex has softened, in'fantile c, juvenile c. affecting a very young child, ju'venile c, a soft c. occuring in a child or young adult, especially one suffering from rickets, lac'teal c, a fluid c. in which the liquid lens opalescent or milky. is lamell'ar c, one in which the opacity is limited to certain of the layers of the lens external to the nucleus, lentic'ular c, one in which the opacity is confined to the substance of the lens, phacoscotasmus. mature' c, one in which the entire lens is hard and opaque so that it can be shelled out easily from the capmem'branous c, Cataract Needles sule,: a secondary c, composed A, straight; B, curved. of the remains of the thickened capsule with more or le degenerated lens substance, milk'y c, lacteal c. Morgagn'- ian c, a hyper mature u. in which the cortex becomes soft and of a milky opacity while the hard dark nucleus sinks, nu'clear c, one involving the nucleus only, overripe' c, hyper mature c. perinu'clear c, one in which the nucleus is clear but is surrotmded by a ring or sphere of opacity, po'lar c, a capsular c. limited to a certain area over the anterior or posterior pole of the lens, pri'maiy c, one occurring independently