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Hepatite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A gem or mineral that takes its name from the liver. Plin. Latin 37.11.

2. Hepatite is a name given to the fetid sulphate of baryte. It sometimes occurs in globular masses, and is either compact or of a foliated structure. By friction or the application of heat, it exhales a fetid odor, like that of sulphurated hydrogen.

Hepatite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.