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Definition of Hepar
1. n. Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (&?;).
Definition of Hepar
1. an old name for some sulphurs [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hepar
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepar
Literary usage of Hepar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1876)
"He had for a long time been in the constant habit of prescribing hepar, ... Dr.
Bryce's very careful observations as to the effect of hepar upon patients ..."
2. Transactions (1882)
"hepar Sulphur in a Case of Goitre. BY AK WRIGHT, MD 1858. ... On looking the case
over, with great doubt of a cure, I gave hepar s., and in a month's time I ..."
3. Physiological Materia Medica: Containing All that is Known of the by William H. Burt (1883)
"hepar SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. Sulphide of Calcium. Chemical preparation; finely
pulverized Oyster Shells and chemically pure Flowers of Sulphur, equal purl*, ..."
4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... of this Mr Magellan faw fome lumps that oils hepar. This is found at Tivoli,
near Sometimes it is formed in old privies : 4. ..."
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