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LOCAL

Volume 6 · 54 words · 1778 Edition

in law, something fixed to the freehold, or tied to a certain place: thus, real actions are local, since they must be brought in the country where they lie; and local customs are those peculiar to certain countries and places.

LOCAL Medicines, those destined to act upon particular parts; as fomentations, epithems, vesicatores, &c.