Infusion

In Medical Jurisprudence. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in ix>uring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance whose medical properties it is desired to extract. The product of this operation. An infusion differs from a decoction in that the latter is produced by boiling the drug. Although infusion differs from decoction, they are said to be ejusdem 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 Campb. 74. IN GEN I UM (Lat. of middle ages). A net or hook. Du Cange; hence, probably, the meaning given by Spelman of artifice, fraud (engin). A machine, Spelman, Gloss., especially for warlike purposes; also, for navigation of a ship. Du Cange. INGENUI (Lat). In Civil Law. Those freemen who were bom free. Vlcat, Vocab. They were a class of freemen, distinguished from those who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom: the latter were called, at various periods, sometimes liberti, sometimes Ubertini. An unjust or Illegal servitude did not prevent a man from being ingenuus.