is, strictly speaking, such washing as concerns beautifying the skin, by cleansing it of those deformities which a disordered blood throws upon it. Medicines of this kind, however, are for the most part insignificant, and sometimes very dangerous; the only proper method of treating these disorders is, by administering such medicines as tend to correct the morbid state of the constitution from whence they arise.

pharmacy, denotes a preparation of medicines, by washing them in some liquid, either made very light, so as to take away only the dregs; or sharp, so as to penetrate them, in order to clear them of some salt, or corrosive spirit as is done to antimony, precipitates, magalaries, &c., or intended to take away some foulness or ill quality, or to communicate some good one.

LOTAPHAGI (anc. geog.), a people of the Regio Syrtica (so called from their living on the lotus); inhabiting between the two Syrtes, from the Cynthus to the Triton. The lotus was said to be a food so luscious, as to make strangers forget their native country. A sweet wine was expressed from it, which did not keep above ten days, (Pliny). Lotophagi of Homer. See Meninx.