Axungia
id:
axungia-193-10444911
title:
Axungia
text:
Axungia is a kind of soft animal fat, usually from around the kidneys of geese or pigs, used in pre-modern western medicine. It differs from lard, which is firm, and suet or adeps, which is dry. The ancient Romans distinguished fat into pinguedo or axungia, and adeps or sebum; but writers often interchange the terms. In pre-modern medicine, physicians made use of the axungia of the goose, the dog, the viper, and some others, especially that of humans, considered of "extraordinary service in the
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Medical uses of soft animal fat
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axungia
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-06T18:44:41Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q4830703","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4830703"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Apothecary_vessel_Axung_Daxis_19_century.jpg","width":2736,"height":3648}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15