in medicine, an abscess of the lungs. See Medicine, p. 186.

Nux Vomica, in pharmacy, a flat compressed round fruit, of the breadth of a shilling, or somewhat more, and of about the thickness of a crown-piece.

It is the nucleus of a fruit of an East-Indian tree, the wood of which is the lignum columbrinum of the shops.

Some have preferred small doses of the nux vomica as a specific against gonorrhea, and others against quartan agues. But we have so many good and safe medicines for all these purposes, that there seems no occasion for our having recourse to such as these, which show so many signs of mischief.