Infusion
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
med. jur. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medica] properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used‘for the product of this operation. Although infusion differs from decoction, (q. v.) they are said to be. eyusdum generis, and in the case of an indictment which charged the prisoner with giving a decoction, and the evidence was that he had given an infusion, the difference was held to be immaterial.
3 Camp. R. 74.