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Name: Category: Description: Ward's Essence Treatment Camphor medication sold as a headache cure by 'Mr Ward of Whitehall', and as first described in John Page, 'Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward' (London: 1763), p. 26. Water brash Condition Occurs when a person produces an excessive amount of saliva that mixes with stomach acids that have risen to the throat. White Vitriol Treatment Type of metal sulphate; zinc. Also known as vitriolum album. Windy gravel Condition Colloquial term for a complaint combining flatulency and indigestion. Womb Body Part See also entry for uterus. Worm seed Treatment Alternative name for semen santonica. See entry for semen santonica. Worms Condition Internal parasitic worms. Also known as taenia, ascarides. Wrist Body Part The part or joint connecting the hand with the forearm.
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- Ward's Essence
Treatment
Camphor medication sold as a headache cure by 'Mr Ward of Whitehall', and as first described in John Page, 'Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward' (London: 1763), p. 26.
- Water brash
Condition
Occurs when a person produces an excessive amount of saliva that mixes with stomach acids that have risen to the throat.
- White Vitriol
Treatment
Type of metal sulphate; zinc. Also known as vitriolum album.
- Windy gravel
Condition
Colloquial term for a complaint combining flatulency and indigestion.
- Womb
Body Part
See also entry for uterus.
- Worm seed
Treatment
Alternative name for semen santonica. See entry for semen santonica.
- Worms
Condition
Internal parasitic worms. Also known as taenia, ascarides.
- Wrist
Body Part
The part or joint connecting the hand with the forearm.
- Ward's Essence
