in Medicine and Pharmacy, are such remedies as sheath and soften the asperity of the humours, and relax and supple the solids at the same time.

EMOLUMENT is properly applied to the profits arising daily from an office or employ. The word is formed of the Latin emolumentum, which, according to some, primarily signifies the profits redounding to the miller from his mill; of molo, molere, "to grind."—The patent, or other instrument, whereby a person is preferred to an office, gives him a right to enjoy all the duties, honours, profits, and emoluments belonging thereto.—Emolument is also used, in a somewhat greater latitude, for profit or advantage in the general.