Cingulum

(From cingo, to bind). A girdle or belt. Dr. Cheyne, in his Essay on Regimen of Diet, says, "Cincture, with a broad quilted belt about the loins, to keep the bowels in their natural situations, and the chylous vessels in the best locality in flabby constitutions, weak bowels, and atrophies, is of great benefit." This belt is chiefly useful for fat persons.

Cingulum mercuriale. A mercurial girdle, called also cingulum sapientiae, and cingulum stultitiae. It was an invention of Rulandus's; different directions are given for making it, but the following is one of the neatest:

Take three drachms of quicksilver; shake it with two ounces of lemon juice until the globules disappear; then separate the juice, and mix with the extinguished quicksilver half the white of an egg; gum dragon, finely powdered, a scruple; and spread the whole on a belt of flannel.

Cingulum sancti Johannis. See Artemisia.

Cinificatum

(From cinis and facio, to turn to ashes). See Calcinatum.

Cinnabarinum Balsamum

(From cinna-baris). Cinnabar balsam. The simple balsam of sulphur is a proper substitute, and nearly a similar medicine.

Cinnum

Or CInnus. See Cyceon.

Cinzilla

See Zona.

Cion

a column. The uvula is so named from its pyramidal shape. (See Uvula, Himas.) Hippocrates gives this name to a carunculous excrescence in the pudendum muliebre.

Cionia

In Dioscorides it is the middle part of a whelk, or purple fish, near the centre of the striae; which, being calcined, is supposed to be more caustic than the other parts.

Cionis

(From the uvula). A painful thickness of the uvula.

Circaea

(From Circe, the famous enchantress; on the supposition that it was used in her enchanted preparations). Enchanter's nightshade. Circ&a lute-tiana Lin. Sp. Pi. 12. Called also dipcaea. Its leaves resemble those of the garden nightshade: the flowers are small and black; the seeds like those of the millet; they are inclosed in a sort of corniculated capsule; the roots are three or four spans long, white, scented, and heating. It grows on rocky ground, where it is exposed to the sun. Its virtues, if any, resemble those of the garden nightshade.

Circocele

(From varix, and a tumour). A corruption of Cirsocele, q. v.

Circulatores

(From circulo, to compass about). See Agyrtae.

Circulatorium

(From the same). A circulatory glass. It is a vessel in which the contained liquor, when put over the fire, circulates by ascending and descending in such a manner, that the more volatile parts of the liquor, raised by the fire, not finding a passage, may always fall back again. Thus chemical circulation is only a species of digestion. Repeated distillation sometimes answers the end of circulation. See Digestio.