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Antifebrin – Antithesis

Antifebrin

acetanilid (C&H,NO), an aniline derived from acetate of aniline at an elevated temperature by a dialytic action in which water is set free. It has been employed with excellent results as a pain-reliever in neuralgic and rheumatic affections, as a sedative febrifuge and antipyretic.

Antifriction Metal

a name given to various alloys of tin, zinc, copper, antimony, lead, etc., which oppose little resistance to motion, with great resistance to the effects of friction, so far as concerns the wearing away of the surfaces of contact. Babbitt's metal (50 parts tin, 5 antimony, 1 copper) is one of them.

Antilochus

in Greek legend, the son of Nestor, who fell at the siege of Troy by the hand of Memnon. a ANTIMACHUS (an-tim'a-kus), Greek epic and elegiac poet; flourished about 400 в. c. His chief works were the epic "Thebaïs," and an elegy on his dead love Lyde.

Antipater

procurator of Judea for the Romans from 47 to 43 B. C. He rec. He received the appointment from Julius Cæsar; and died from poison in the last mentioned year. He was the father of Herod the Great.

Antipodes Islands

a group of small uninhabited islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles S. E. of New Zealand; so called from being nearly antipodal to Greenwich, England.

Antipyretics

medicines which re- them. The liquor interests had for years duce the temperature in fever.

Antipyrine

an alkaloid extensively used in medicine as an antipyretic, and possessing the valuable property of materially reducing the temperature of the body without the production of any distressing bodily symptoms.

Antiques

a term specifically applied to the remains of ancient art, as statues, paintings, vases, cameos, and the like, and more especially to the works of Grecian and Roman antiquity.

Antiscorbutics

remedies against scurvy. Lemon juice, ripe fruit, milk, salts of potash, green vegetables, potatoes, fresh meat, and raw or lightly boiled eggs, are some of the principal antiscorbutics.

Antisepsis

the exclusion of microbes or bacteria from wounds, etc., by the use of antiseptics or other means in order to prevent putrefaction, infection, or blood-poisoning.

Antiseptic

a substance which has the effect of counteracting the tendency to putrefaction. Chemical agents used for other than their medicinal properties.

Antiseptics prevent chemical change by destroying the putrefactive microbes or bacteria, the chemical composition of the body still in many cases remaining the same; while disinfectants decompose and remove the infectious matter itself.

Antithesis

a sharp opposition of contrast between word and word, clause and clause, sentence and sentence, or sentiment and sentiment, especially designed to impress the listener or reader.