(From α, neg. and wine ). Medicines which either prevent or remove the inebriating effects of wine.

silvery gloss, which is not easily defiled. Also called asbestus, asbestinum, cinum fossile, asbestinum -vivum, Indicum, corpasium, caristum, and Cypricum; alumen officinarum, Sparta polia, salamandra, earth flax and salamander's Wool.

It is a magnesian earth composed of small silvery filaments; met with in many of the islands of the Mediterranean Sea, and in Italy. It is worked either into linen or paper, both which resist the most violent flame, and are cleaned by calcining. It is dug up also in the island of Anglesey, and in Oxfordshire.