1. _Lotions_, which consist in washing a part of the body with a sponge or rag soaked in a liquid. 2. _Aspersions_, which consist in throwing a liquid drop by drop, like rain, upon the body. 3. _Shower baths_, which consist in allowing a number of small streams of water to fall from a height upon the surface of the body. If the water fall from a considerable height, affusion is then termed _douche_ by the French. =AFT′ER-DAMP.= _Syn._ CHOKE-DAMP. Carbonic acid gas resulting from explosion of air and fire-damp (light carbonetted hydrogen) in coal mines. =AFT′ER-PAINS.= Those following childbirth. The only remedy is patience; they may, however, be frequently alleviated by small doses of morphia or liquor opii sedativus. Heated cloths and warm fomentations are sometimes useful, particularly if assisted by moderate but sufficient pressure on the abdomen, by means of a broad bandage. They seldom follow with severity the first birth. _Treatment for Animals._ Remove clots from parts, raise the hind-quarters. Give clysters of linseed tea, lukewarm, and laudanum or belladonna extract. Syringe out parts with Condy’s fluid considerably diluted. Give internally belladonna, opium, or chloroform. Draw away milk. =AFT′ER-WASH= (wŏsh). In the art of the distiller, the liquor in the still after the spirit has been drawn over. =AG′ARIC.= [Eng., Fr.] _Syn._ AGAR′ICUM, AGAR′ICUS, L.; BLÄTTERSCHWAMM, PILZ, SCHWAMM, Ger. In _botany_, a genus of fungi, of numerous species, embracing the mushrooms and champignons. Of these plants, some are edible; others poisonous. The term is also commonly applied to the boletus found on oaks (TOUCHWOOD), and on larches (MALE AGARIC). See MUSHROOMS. =Fly-agaric.= _Syn._ FLY MUSH′ROOM; AGAR′ICUS MUSCA′′RIA, Linn.; AMANI′TA M. One of the most narcotic and poisonous of our fungi, producing, in small doses, intoxication and a pleasing species of delirium; for which purpose it is commonly employed in Kamschatka. (Hooker.) It possesses the singular property of imparting an intoxicating quality to the urine, which continues for a long time after taking it. This secretion is, therefore, commonly saved by the natives during a scarcity of the fungus. “Thus, with a few amanitæ, a party of drunkards may keep up their debauch for a week;” and the intoxication so produced is capable of “being propagated through five or six individuals.” (Langsdorff.) Water in which it has been boiled is poisonous; but the boiled fungus itself is inert. The liquid from it is used as a fly-poison; whence the name mushroom is derived. It may be known by its rich orange-red colour in autumn.