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INCORPORATION

Volume 2 · 52 words · 1771 Edition

in pharmacy, is much the same as impatination, being a reduction of dry substances to the consistence of a paste, by the admixture of some fluid; thus pills, boles, troches, and plasters are made by incorporation. Another incorporation is, when things of different consistences, are by digestion reduced to one common consistence.