Excerpt from A New Medical Dictionary: Including All the Words and Phrases Generally Used in Medicine, With Their Proper Pronunciation and Definitions I. To include those new words and phrases created during the past ten years - a period rich in coinages - Which appeared destined to continuous usage. There are certainly thousands of these; and in their compilation I have especially endeavored to cover the latest results in the study of Bacteri ology, Ptomames and Leucomai'nes, Electro-therapeutics, Physiology, Path ology, and in the various special branches of medicine, such as Ophthalmology, Otology, Laryngology, Gynmcology, Antiseptic Surgery, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.