Crossword-Solution: LIXIVIAL
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| Lixivial | a. | Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. |
| Lixivial | a. | Of the color of lye; resembling lye. |
| Lixivial | a. | Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. |
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The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Lixivial salts (Old Chem.), salts which are obtained by passing water through ashes, or by pouring it on them.
See Lixivial.] Defn: A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.
When these Swellings were recent, and confined to the Feet and Legs, commonly the Bark joined to the lixivial Salts, or the Oxymel of Squills, or other Diuretics, and a Purgative once or twice a Week, removed them.
Three other Men in the Hospital at _Osnabruck_, in _May_ 1761, having oedematous Swellings of the Feet and Legs, which yielded to no internal Remedies, had Blisters applied to their Legs, used the Cortex, with the lixivial Salts, two or three Times a Day, and a Purge every fourth Day; which removed the Swellings in a short Time.
Pliny speaks of ashes as impregnated with salts, and in particular of the nitrous ashes of burnt oak; adding, that these salts are used in medicine, and that a dose of lixivial ashes is an excellent remedy.