Once a trace of patchouli perfume was added to this water. (Hager.)
Eye Water, Dr White’s (T. Ehrhard, Altenfeld, Thuringia). Four cloves, a piece of cinnamon the size of a large pea, 2 teaspoonfuls of rose water, 1 drop of vinegar, 10 drops of arnica tincture. Digest for an hour and filter. Dissolve in the filtrate some white vitriol of the size of a pea. (Hager.)
Sulphate of zinc, 3 parts; honey, 4 parts; water, 80 parts; perfumed with oil of cloves and a trace of mustard oil. (Wittstein.)
Eye Waters. See Water.
FACE A′GUE. The common name for the intermittent form of facial NEURALGIA or TIC DOULOUREUX. See Neuralgia.
FACE PAINTS. Syn. Fards, Fr. See Bloom, Carmine, Pearl White, Rouge, &c.
FAC-SIM′ILE. An exact imitation of an original in all its traits and peculiarities. The term is chiefly used in relation to copies of old manuscripts, or of the handwriting of famous men, or of interesting documents, produced by engraving or lithography. See Signatures.
FACTI′′TIOUS. Syn. Factitius, L. Artificial; made by art, in distinction from that produced by nature. Numerous illustrations of the application of this word occur in the pages of the present work.
FÆCES. Excrement. In the laboratory, the ‘settling’ or sediment deposited by a liquor. See Defecation, Excreta.
FAINT′ING. Syn. Swooning; Syncope, Deliquium animi, L. In pathology, a state in which the respiration and circulation are apparently suspended for a time, or are extremely feeble. The symptoms are too well known to require description. The causes are supposed to be—diminished energy of the brain, and organic affections of the heart