drawn out by Distilling consisting of Watery and Spirituous Parts but more of Watery Aqua inter cutim Water betwixt the Skin the same with Anasarca Aqualiculus or the lowest part of the Belly the same with Hypogastrium Aquaeus humor the Watery Humor see Humores Oculi Arachnoides is the Cristalyne tunic of the Eye so called from its likeness to a Spiders Web. Araeotica see Rarefacientia Aranea tunica or Cristalyna is that which surrounds the Cristalyne humour by reason of its light thin contexture like the workmanship of a Spider it has the name of Aranea Arcanum Theophrasto is the Quintessence of a thing most highly exalted or as He says it is the vertue of a thing Refined by a thousand Exaltations He boasts of four Arcana especially 1. The Arcanum of the First Matter 2. Of the Philosophers Stone 3. Of the Mercury of Life 4. Of Tincture Others call it an Extract specially so called Arche is the beginning of a Disease Archeus is the highest and exalted and invisible Spirit which is separated from Bodies is Exalted and Ascends an hidden Vertue of Nature common to all things an Artist a Physitian Also Archiatios or the Chief Physitian of Nature which distributes to every thing and to every Member its peculiar Archeus occultly by the Air. Also Archeus the first in Nature is a most occult quality which produces all things from Iliastes being onely immediately sustained by the Divine Vertue it self Arcuatus Morbus see Icterus Ardentes febres burning Fevers are those which are accompanied with a great Heat and Thirst by reason of a too high Exaltation of the Sulphur as in that called causus and lipiria Ardor is a very intense acute Heat raised in our Bodies by a too high Exaltation of Sulphur or Spirits Ardor ventriculi that which we call Heart-burning is a particular sort of Pain in the Stomach which at the same time molests the whole Gullet some call it a Fervent Heat of the Stomach some an Ebullition and a boiling bubling heat of the Stomach when a certain fiery Pain is felt in the Ventricle and the Throat as if it burnt it happens often to people that are in good Health enough and that either Feeding or Fasting especially when they belch as if there were a fiery sort of Blast closely pent up and which could not break out Yet it happens sometimes in Fevers too It is caused by a certain effervescence of little very sharp bileous particles with Sulphureous whence is perceived that Ebullition or bubling heat of the Stomach Area Celsus reckons two sorts of Areas This is common to both of them that the uppermost little Skin being decayed the hairs are first lessen'd and then fall off and if the place be beat it sends forth a liquid matter of an ill savor both of them spread in some swiftly in others slowly that is the worst that makes the Skin thick fattish and perfectly bald That which is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dilates it self in any shape it happens both in the Head and in the Beard the former is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from its resembling a Serpent it begins at the hinder part of the Head exceeds not the breadth of two fingers spreads it self towards the Ears in two branches in some to the Fore-head till they both joyn in the fore part of the Head the one Distemper is incident to any Age the other common to Infants The former is scarce ever cured the later often ends of his own accord Arena Gravel is a thing bred in the body of a great deal of Salt and Earth which often grows up into a Stone Argemon is a little Ulcer of the Eye in that circle of it which is called Iris comprehending part of the white and black Arilli the same with acini Aroma is any Odoriferous Spice as Cloves Cinnamon Galangal c. Arquatus the same with Icterus Arteria trachea or Aspera the Wind-pipe is a Cartilaginous Vessel implanted in the Lungs and consisting of various rings and parts the forepart of it is full of ligaments and depressed for the better passing of the Gullet its upper part is called Larynx and the lower Bronchius its use is for the Voice and taking in breath Arteria aorta or magna the great Arterie is a Vessel that beats continually fastned to the left Ventricle of the Heart it consists of four tunics and receives the Blood in the Lungs which is sent from the Heart and Elaborated by the Nitre in the Air and diffuses it through the whole Body for its Nourishment Arteria caeliaca see caeliaca arteria Arteriaca see Arteria Arteriotomia is an Artificial opening of an Arterie for the Letting of Blood in an inveterate Head-ach Madness Falling-sickness Pain and Inflamation in the Eyes and Ears The Section is made in the Fore-head Temples or behind the Ears the manner of it is thus After the ligatures made in the Arms or Neck the Arterie is cut just as a Vein is and when the blood is Emitted you apply a very Astringent Plaister with a Leaden Plate to the Orifice and then swathe it well the Cure is performed in Seven or Nine days time Arthritica see in Arthritis Arthritis or Morbus articularis the Gout exercises its Tyranny about two or three or more Joynts and it is defined to be a pain about the Joynts proceeding from an effervescence of the Nervous Acid Juice with the fixed Saline Particles of the Blood whence the Nerves Tendons Ligaments the thin Membranes about the Bones are contracted and miserably Tormented whence proceeds Swellings Redness hard sandy concretions in several parts of the Body and other symptoms that accompany it It is fourfold Chiragia the Gout in the Hands Ischias in or about that Bone which is connected to the Os Ilium Gonagra in the Knees and Podagra in the Feet almost an incurable Distemper Arthritis vaga a Wandering Gout is a Disease in the Joynts that creates pain sometimes in one Limb sometimes in another It proceeds from a double cause We may suppose in this Disease a great many heaps as it were of fixed Salt thrust out from the Mass of the Blood to be placed like so many Nests here and there about the Limbs and Joynts which being treasured up in several distinct Cells or Repositories like the Spawn of Fish or the Seed of Women the lower recrements of the Nervous Juice comes afterwards like the Man's Seed and Impregnates them and hence from the mutual Effervescence of these two the Membranes and Nervous Fibers being vellicated and contracted cause an extraordinary quick and acute Pain It is called vaga wandring because 't is not constant to one and the same place as the true Gout is Arthrodia is the joyning of Bones when the cavity that receives the Bone is in the Surface and the little head or top of the Bone that is received is depressed as in the lower Jaw-bone with the Bone of the Temples Arthon is
Pleuritis a Pleurisy is a Inflammation of the Membrane Pleura and the intercostal Muscles attended with a continual Fever and Stitches in the Side difficulty of Breathing and sometimes spitting Blood and it 's either a true Pleurisy this which we have described or a bastard Pleurisy Pleuritis Notha a bastard Pleurisy that differs in some things from the other Plexus choroides seems to hang over the pineal Glandule as it were over a Button It is an admirable Contexture of small Arteries in the Brain like a Net Plexus nervosus is when two or three Nerves meet together and jut out Plexus reticularis vid. Choroides Plica is an epidemical Disease in Polonia when their Hairs grow together like a Cow's Tail besides they are crook'd-back'd have loose Joynts it wrenches their Limbs and loosens them breeds Lice with other Symptoms Pleumaceola vid. Splenia Pneumatocele is a windy Rupture when the Skin of the Cods is distended with Wind. Pneumatodes is a short Breathing Pneumatosis is the Generation of Animal Spirits which is performed in the barky Substance of the Brain the little Arteries there are emptied and the Spirits distil which after they are come as far as the middle of the Brain they actuate and Invigorate all the Nerves Pneumatomphalus is a swelling in the Navel got by Wind. Pneumon the Lungs Pnigalium vid. Epialtes Pnigmus Strangling or Choaking Podagra vid. Arthritis the Gout in the Feet Pollutio nocturna is an involuntary Pollution in the Night caused by lecherous Dreams Polychronius is a Disease that holds a Man many Years or Months Polygophora are Drinks or Wines full of excellent Spirits Polypus is a Swelling in the hollow of the Nostrils and is twofold either like a Tent and goes by the general name of Sarcoma or such a one that has a great many distinct Branches or Feet which extend either to the outside of the Nose or the inside of the Mouth Their Colour is white oftentimes reddish and sometimes black and livid Excrescencies of this nature happen not only in the Nostrils but sometimes in the Heart and in the Cavities of the thicker Membrane of the Brain Polytarcia Corpulency Pompholigodes Urine with many Bubbles upon it which are frequent if the Body be puft up or pained Pomum Adami is a Protuberance in the foreside of the Throat so called because 't is commonly thought a piece of the Apple stuck in his Throat as part of his Punishment and hence derived to his Posterity Pondo a Pound-weight Joh. Rhodius writes That of all the Roman Weights and Measures a Pound was the chief and Standard of the Rest Poplitea Vena a Vein that consists of a double crural Branch which being covered with Skin reaches down the Back of the Leg even to the Heel Pori Pores are little unperceptible Holes in the Skin through which Sweat and other vaporous Effluviums perspire through the Body Porocele is a Rupture proceeding from callous Matter or the Stone Poromphalus is a brawny piece of Flesh or a Stone protuberant in the Navel Porosis is the breeding of callous Matter Porotica are Medicines which by drying thickening and astringent Qualities turn part of the Nourishment into brawny callous Matter Porus bilarius or Hepaticus is a Channel which transmits the Bile from the Liver by the common Ductus or Passage into the Gut Duodenum which Bile is segregated in the Liver by the Intervention of some small Glandules Porrigo vid. Furfurratio Portae Vena vid. Vena Posca vid. Oxycratum Postbrachiale vid. Metaca pus Potio vid. Haustus Praecipitatio is a certain Subsiding and Reviviscence of very small Particles dissolved in a convenient Liquor by the Infusion of another Liquor Praecordia are all the Entrails in the Chest or Thorax Praefocatio Vterina vid. Hysterica passio Praeparantia Med. vid. Digerentia Praeparantia vasa the preparing Vessels are Veins and Arteries which go to the Testicles and Epididymes which see so called by the Ancients thinking that they prepared the Seed The Vein has several Branches and Anastomoses the Artery goes streight on but for two or at the most three Divisions or Branches Praeputium is the fore-Skin also the Prominency of the Clytoris Praesepia the holes of either Jaw wherein are contained the Teeth Praeservatoria Indicatio is a way whereby we prevent Diseases Pregma vid. Bregma Presbytia is a dimness of Sight in things nigh at hand tho a Man see tolerably well things at a distance Usual with old Men. Priapismus is a continual Erection of the Yard without Lust Also the Yard it self Primores Dentes the fore-Teeth wherewith we chaw our Meat and which we show in laughing Principes dies vid. Critici dies Principia vid. Elementa Probole vid. Apophisia Procatarctica is the pre-existent Cause of a Disease which co-operates with others that are subsequent whether it be external or internal as Anger or Heat in the Air which beget ill Juice in the Blood and cause a Feaver Procatarxis the same Processus vid. Apophysis Processus Peritonaei are as it were two oblong Pipes or Channels reaching to the Skin of the Cods through the Holes of the Tendons of the oblique and transverse Muscles in which Productions or Didymi as the Ancients call'd them the seminary Vessels descend and return towards the Stones they grow under and cover them Procidentia Ani is a falling of the Gut Rectum by reason of too much looseness through the Fundament Procidentia uteri is a relaxing of the inner Tunick of the Vagina of the Womb which falls through the Privities and was cut off by Physicians Formerly and even still some think the Womb may fall down but the Ligaments of the Womb hinder any such fall Procondyli are the Bones of the Fingers next the back of the Hand Prodromus is a Disease that comes before a greater as the straitness of the Breast predicts a Consumption or the Rickets Productio vid. Apophysis Proegumena is an antecedent internal Cause of a Disease in the Body occasioned by another and so causing the Disease that if it be taken away the Disease may still continue as a Plethora or ill Juice in the Blood produced by an ill way of Diet whence proceeds an Obstruction of Vessels and Passages and a Constipation of the Entrails Prognosis Signa prognostica are Signs whereby we know what will become of the Patient Projectura vid. Apophysis Prolabia the outmost prominent parts of the Lips Prolapsus uteri vid. Vteri prolapsus Prolepticus is a Disease always anticipating so as if the Ague come to day at four of the Clock then to Morrow one Hour sooner and so on Prophasis is a Fore-knowledg in Diseases also an Occasion or antecedent Cause Prophylactica is a part of that part of Physick called Hygieina or what respects the Preservation of Health which gives notice of future but imminent Diseases Prophylaxis the same Propoma is a Drink made of Wine and Honey or Sugar Propotisma is the taking a Dose Proptosis
Affections of the Mind Things that are let out of and Things retained in the Body They are so called because that if they exceed their due Bounds they often occasion Diseases Res preter Naturam things beside Nature are Diseases their Causes their Symptoms and Effects Resolventia dissolving Remedies are such as are apt to dissipate or scatter Particles that are driven into the Body or any part of it with their own spirituous and sulphureous Particles Respiratio Breathing is an alternate Dilatation and Contraction of the Chest whereby the nitrous Air is taken in by the Wind-Pipe for the accension of the Blood and by and by is driven out again with other vaporous Effluviums The Cause of Respiration does not seem to consist in the Dilatation and Contraction of the Thorax as is commonly thought but in the Contraction of the Tunic which covers the upper part of the Oesophagus and the Wind-Pipe as far as its Closest Recesses Rete mirabile the wonderful Net in the Brain is so called by reason of its admirable Structure it consists of several small Arteries it is under the Basis of the Brain and comprehends the pituitary Glandule by the sides of the Bone Ophenoides The Use of it is that the Blood may cast off its serous parts into the pituitary Glandule that it may afford finer and purer Spirits Secondly lest the Blood by rushing too suddenly upon the Brain should in some measure suppress it it is not so found in a Man and an Horse which perform noble things Reticularis plexus the same that Choroides Reticulum the same that Omentum Retiformis plexus see Plexus retiformis Retiformis tunica is a certain Expansion of the inner Substance of the Optic Nerve in the Eye which is to the Eye like a whited Wall in a dark Chamber which receives and represents the visible Species that are let in by a hole in a darkened Room Retina tunica see Retiformis and Amphiblestroides Retorta a Retort is a Chymical Vessel made of Glass Stone or Iron of a round Figure to the side whereof there is fastened a bended retorted and hollow Beak or Nose whereby the things that are to be distilled are put in and out Reverberatio chymica is a Burning whereby Bodies are calcined by an actual Fire in a Furnace called Reverberium Reverberium is a Chymical Oven or Furnace wherein Bodies that are to be burned or distilled are calcined Revulsoria V. S. is whereby the Blood that gushes upon one part is diverted a contrary way by the opening of a Vein in a remote and convenient place Rhachitis is the Spinal Marrow which see in its proper place Also a Disease common amongst the English which is an unequal Nourishing of parts accompanied with Looseness of parts Softness Weakness Faintness Drowzyness a great swelling Head with Leanness below the Head with Protuberances about the Joints Crookedness of Bones Straitness of the Breast Swelling of the Abdomen Stretching of the Hypochondres a Cough c. The English call it the Rickets But because the occasion of it often lyes in the Spinal Marrow the Famous Glisson calls it appositely enough Rhachitis Rhagades the Latines say Soissurae Eissurae Rimae Chinks Clefts which as they happen in other parts of the Body Hands Feet Lips the entrance of the Womb so they may happen in the Fundament in the Extremity of the Gut Rectum and in the Sphincter or Muscle which closes the Fundament Rhagades in the Fundament are certain oblong little Ulcers without Swelling like those which are sometimes occasioned in the Hands by great Cold. Some are superficial others deep Some are not hard nor callous others are Some are moist and send forth Matter others dry and cancrous Rhegma is a Breaking or Bursting of any part as of a Bone the inner Rine of the Belly the Eye c. Rheuma Rheum is a Defluxion of Humor from the Head upon the parts beneath as upon the Eyes or Nose Rheumatismus is a wandring Pain in the Body often accompanied with a small Fever Swelling Inflammation c. Rhexis the same that Rhegma Rhinenchytes is a little Syringe to inject Medicines into the Nostrils Rhodinum is Rose-Vinegar or any thing made of Roses Rhomboides is a pair of Muscles proceeding from the three lowermost Vertebres of the Neck and as many upper Spinal Processes of the Vertebres of the Back By and by they descend and being fleshy at the beginning and end go as far as the Basis of the Shoulder-blade which they move backward and obliquely upward Rhyptica are scouring Medicines which cleanse away Filth Rhythmus is a certain proportion of Pulses Time Life Age c. Rhythidosis is a Wrinkling of any part Rigor is a Vibration and Concussion of the Skin and Muscles of the whole Body accompanied with Chilness Rima pudendi or Fissura magna is so called because it reaches from the lower part of the Os Pubis almost as far as the Fundament so that the space betwixt the one and the other which is called Perinaeum or Interforamineum is scarce a Fingers breadth By frequent Coition it grows larger The use of it is for Generation Excretion of Urine and other Excrements and for the bearing of Young Risus Sardonius is a Contraction of each Jaw Rob see Apochylisma Robub the same Roriferus ductus the same that Ductus chyliferus Ros in the account of the Ancients was the first Moisture that falls from the Extremities of Vessels and is dispersed upon the Substance of the Members Ros says Galen is a third sort of Moisture whereby the parts of our Body are nourished and is contained in all the parts of an Animal like a certain Dew sprinkled upon them This is the Opinion of the Ancients Rosa the same that Erysipelas Rostriformis processus see Coracoides Rotator major minor are two Apophyses in the upper part of the Thigh-Bone called Trichanteres in which the Tendons of many Muscles are terminated Rotula the same that Mola genu Rotulae see Tabellae Rubrica see Impetigo Ructatio Belching is a depraved Motion of the Stomach occasioned by an Effervescence there whereby Vapours and flatulent Matter are sent out at the Mouth And it is either acid or stinking or savours like something burnt or roasted Ructus see Bombus and Ructatio Rugitus is an Effervescence of Chyle and Excrements in the Blood whereby Wind and several other Motions are excited in the Guts and rowl up and down the Excrements when there 's no easy Vent nor upwards nor downwards Ruptio see Rhegma Ryas is a too plentiful and preternatural falling of Tears S. SAccus is the Gut called Rectum Sacculus Chyliferus or Roriferus is the lower part of the Passage of the Chyle into which are inserted all the Lacteal Veins of the second sort and a great number of the Lymphatic Vessels Sacculus Cordis see Pericardium Sacculi Medicinales are when several Simples according to the Nature of the Disease are compounded and beaten
comes away by Drops only accompanied with a constant Inclination of making Water Stratificatio is a corroding of Metals by corrosive Pouders The Operation is performed in this manner Put first in the bottom of the Crucible some of the corroding Pouder then some of the Metal you are to corrode beaten into thin Plates then some of the Pouders and upon them some more Plates of your Metal and so on till the Crucible be full then make Ignemrotae or a Fire round your Crucible to the top or else place it in a Reverbatory according as the Operation shall require Struma see Scrophula Stryphna see Astringentia Stupefacientia see Narcotica Stupea seu Stupa is a piece of Linnen dipt in a Liquor and applied to the part affected Stupor Numness Stylocer athoeides are the Muscles of the Os Hyoeides which draw upwards They arise from the outward Appendix of the Os Styliforme and are extended to the Horns or Points of the Os Hyoeides Styloglossum is that pair of Muscles which lift up the Tongue they arise from the Appendix of the Os Styliforme and are inserted about the middle of the Tongue Styloeides are Processes of Bone fashioned backward like a Pencil fastened into the Basis of the Skull it self Stylopharyngaeus is a pair of Muscles that dilate the Gullet descending from an Appendix of a Bone in fashion of a Pencil and which reaches the sides of the Gullet Stymma is that thick Mass which remains after the steeping of Flowers Herbs c. and pressing out their Oil. Styptica see Astringentia Subcartilageneum see Hypocondrium Subeth Avicennae see Coma. Sublimatio is a dry Extract consisting of the more subtile parts raised above the Mass and sticking to the Sides and Neck of the Vessel Sublaxatio a dislocation or putting out of Joint Subsidentia see Sedimentum Succago see Apochylisma Succedaneum see Antiballomenon Succenturiati Renes see Capsulae atrabilariae Succus Pancreaticus see Ductus Pancreaticus Sudamina are little Pimples in the Skin like Millet Grains this is frequent in Children and Youths especially those that are of a hot Temper and use much Exercise They break out in the Neck Shoulders Breast Arms and Thighs and mostly about the Privities Sudationes the same with Sudamina Sudor Sweat is a watry Humor which consists of Water chiefly with a moderate quantity of Salt and Sulphur This is driven through the Pores of the Skin by the Heat and Fermentation of the Blood and sometimes by its Weakness and Colliquation Sudorifera see Hydrotica Suffimentum the same with Suffitus Suffitus is a thickish Powder prepar'd of odoriferous Plants Gums c. which thrown upon Coals produces a pleasant Smell Suffocatio Vterina see Hysterica passio Suffumigium see Suffitus Suffusio see Hypochyma Cataracta Sugillata see Enchymoma Sugillatio see Enchymoma Summitates the tops of Herbs Supercilium see Cilium Superfoetatio is when after one Conception another succeeds so that both are in the Womb together Sennertus makes mention of frequent Cases of this Nature Superpurgatio see Hypercatharsis Supplantalia are Plaisters applyed to the Feet these for the most part are made of Leven Mustard wild Radish Salt Sope Gun-Powder c. Suppositorium a Suppository it is compounded of Honey Salt and Purging Powders Suppuratio see Abscessus Sura the same with Os Fibulae Sutura Ossium a Suture is the Juncture of Bones of the Scull like the Teeth of Saws meeting together Sutura is a Connexion of the Sides or Lips of a Wound This is of two sorts Actual which is done with a Needle of a triangular point a Pipe or Cane and waxed Thread first in the middle of the Wound you must sew it together with a double Thread and having made a knot cut it off the rest of the Wound must be sewed up with a single Thread care must be taken that the Stitches are not set too wide nor too close especially not too close that there may be room for any corrupt Matter bred in the Wound to work out The other sort of Suture is much like the way that Skinners use to sew Skins together this is proper in Wounds of the Intestines and in Cuts of the Veins and Arteries Sycosis is an Excrescence of the Flesh about the Fundament 'T is also an Ulcer so called from the resemblance of a Fig this is of two kinds one hard and round the other soft and flat Out of the hard issues a very small quantity of glutinous Matter out of the Moist proceeds a greater quantity and of an ill Smell These Ulcers grow in those patts only which are covered with Hair the hard and round chiefly in the Beard the moist for the most part in the Scalp Syderatio see Apoplexia Symbebecota are Accidents which happen to those that are well to distinguish 'em from Symptoms which happen in Diseases Symmetria is a good Temper Sympasma see Phaenigmus Sympepsis is a Coction of those Humors which are growing into an Imposthume Symphysis is the Joining of two Bones of which neither has a proper distinct Motion This is either without any Medium or else with it as with a Cartilage or Grisle a Ligament or Flesh Symptoma is a preternatural Disposition of the Body occasioned by some Disease This is either a Disease caused by another Disease or else the Cause of a Disease proceeding from another Disease or else simply a Symptome This last is either some Action of the Body hindred or disturb'd some fault of the Excrement or change of the natural Temper Synactica are Medicines that contract any part Synaitia see Continens causa Synanche is a sort of Squinancy which quite stops the Breath or a preternatural Inflammation of the Muscles of the Jaws Synarthrosis is a joyning of Bones by a Grisle Synchâ—ndrosis is the joyning of Bones by a Grisle Synchysis is a preternatural Confusion of the Blood or Humors in the Eye Syncope is a sudden Prostration or Swouning with a very weak or no Pulse and a Depravation of Sense and Motion Syncritica are relaxing Medicines Syndesmus see Ligamentum Syndrome is a Concurrence of several Symptoms in the same Disease Synedreuonta are common Symptoms which accompany the Disease and yet neither flow from the Nature of the Disease nor are necessary Concomitants of it but do notwithstanding signify the Greatness Continuance c. of the Disease Synocha is a continued intermitting Fever this lasts for many days with a great Heat sometimes Putrefaction of the Blood It is either quotidian tertian or quartan Synochos is a continued Fever without any Intermission or Abatement of the Heat which continues for many days This is either Simple or accompanied with Putrefaction Syntasis is a preternatural Distention of the parts Synteretica is that part of Physick which gives Rules for the Preservation of Health Syntexis is a Consumption and Colliquation of the Body in which first the Flesh is wasted and afterward the Substance of the more solid parts Synthesis is either the
when 't is fully and compleatly so the fourth is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the declension of a distemper when its rage is abated and the Patient is judged beyond danger for none die in the declension of a disease This diversity of periods arises from the bloods imbibing of crude juices which have their times of crudity maturation or ripening defection and volatility and thus the case may be said to stand in Fevers and other distempers Acopum is a medicine which applied by fomentation allays the sence of weariness contracted by a too violent motion of the body compounded of warming and mollifying ingredients Acosmia is an ill state of health joined with the loss of colour in the face Acoustica are medicines which help the hearing Acrasia is the excess or predominancy of one quality above another in mixture Acrisia is when a distemper is in so uncertain and fluctuating a condition that the Physitian can hardly pass a right Judgment upon it Acrâ—â—â—olum is a species of warts Acromium is the upper process or increase of the shoulder-blade or the top of the shoulder where the neck-bones are joined with the shoulder-blades Acromphalum is the middle of the Navel Acros is the height and vigor of diseases as also it signifies the prominency of bones the tops of fingers and of plants Acrotes is the vigor top and extremity of any thing as sulphureous and saline particles exalted ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is brought to the most exalted vigour their nature is capable of Actio is an Operation or Function which men perform either by the body alone or by both body and mind and it is either animal which depends upon the brain or natural which is owing to the Cerebellum Acutus morbus an acute disease is that which is over in a little time but not without imminent danger and it is either very acute or most acute the later is meant when the distemper is over in three or four days but the former is that which continues till the seventh day or else a disease is called simply acute when it lasts fourteen or it may be twenty days or lastly acute ex decidentia which lasts forty days at most Aden is a glandule which is either conglobated as the glandules of the Mesentery of the Groin and the Pinealis whose office is to dispense the separated humor to the veins or conglomerated like a Cluster as the salival glandules the Pancreas or Sweet-bread c. which convey their juice by their own proper channels into some notable cavities of the body they are made up several little bladders and fibres or little hollow conduits disposed in a confused manner Aden sometimes also signifies the same with bubo Adephagia is the greediness of children who ever now and then fall to fresh feeding before their former victuals are digested Adeps or Pinguedo fat is a similar part made of earthy and sulphereous blood white soft insensible apt to preserve natural heat and nourish the body in time of need The eye-lids the lips the yard the Scrotum or outward skin of the cods the membranes of the testicles the brain the tendons the nerves the bones c. are destitute of fat by nature Adeps and Pinguedo differ in this that Adeps is a thicker harder and more earthly substance than Pinguedo the fat which is particularly meant by Adeps flows from the blood through vessels into little bags or bladders appropriate thereunto as is plain from the observation of Malphighius Adiapneustia is a different perspiration through the insensible pores of the body Adnata tunica is the common membrane of the eye called Conjunctive it springs from the skull grows to the exterior part of the tunica cornea and that the visible species may pass there leaves a round cavitie forward to which is annexed another tunic without any particular name made up of the tendons of those muscles which move the eye by reason of its whiteness 't is called Albuginia Aegilops Angilops and Anchylops is a little swelling about the glandule of the eye called Carancula major for the most part accompanied with an inflamation Anchylops and Aegilops are often used indifferently yet some for distinction's sake say that Anchylops is a swelling betwixt the greater corner of the eye and the nose not yet open but that aegylops is a swelling betwixt the nose and angle of the eye which if it be not seasonably opened the bone underneath grows putrified Aegilops is often taken for the Fistula lachrymalis it signifies likewise a sort of grass that is destructive of Barley Aeipathia is a passion of long continuance Aeromeli is Manna or aerial honey for in Calabria and other places the air is impregnated with several delicious particles which in the night time cleave to trees leaves or any other thing they meet with and in the day time are farther concocted and condensated by the heat of the Sun Aetas is part of the duration of life wherein from the continual action and fermentation of the blood and spirits the temperature of humane bodies undergo a considerable and sensible change and it is sixfold Pueritia childhood which is reckoned to the fifth year of our age is distinguished into the time before at and after breeding of teeth 2. Adolescentia Youth reckoned to the eighteenth and youth properly so called to the twenty fifth year 3. Juventus reckoned from the twenty fifth to the thirty fifth 4. Virilis Aetas manhood from the thirty fifth to the fiftieth 5. Senectus old age from fifty to sixty 6. Decrepita Aetas decrepit age follows which at last is all swallowed up in death Aetiologia is the cause or reason which is given of natural and preternatural contingencies in humane bodies whence Aetilogica is part of Physick which explains the causes of diseases and health Aetiologica see Aetiologia Affectio Hypochondriaca see Hypochondriacus affectus Affectus the same with Pathema Agerazia is a growing old Agonia is fear and sadness of mind Agonia is barrenness or impotence of the Womb whereby the mans seed corrupts Agrippa is one who is born with his feet foremost Agrypnia signifies watching or a dreaming slumber which proceeds from a too great agitation or attension of the animal spirits in the pores of the brain whence it happens that the pores are not permitted to close and wet Agripnocoma the same that Coma Vigil Agyrta is a Mountebank one who vends his Empyrical Receits to the Rabble that surrounds him Aisthesis or Sence is either external as seeing hearing smelling tast and touch or internal as the common sensory as 't is usually called the Fancy the estimative faculty and the memory but two of them will serve the turn the fancy and the memory Aisthesis or sence is a reception whereby motion from external objects being impressed upon the slender strings or fibres of the nerves is communicated to the common sensory or to the beginning of the medulla oblongata in
Anchoralis processus See Ancyroides Anchyle is a contraction of a Joynt or the back part of the Knee Anchylops the same that Aegilops Ancon or the top of the Elbow is strictly taken for the backward and greater shooting forth of that Bone of the Cubit which is called Ulna Anconaeus See in Ancon Ancyle is the contraction of the Ham. See Anchyle Ancyloblepharum is the growing of the Eye-lid to the tunica cornea or to the Albuginea or when as it sometimes happens both the Eye lids grow together this concretion sometimes happens before the delivery of a Child and then 't is the fault of the Birth Ancyloglessum is when the little string under the Tongue is too straitly tied which causes difficulty of utterance Ancyroides is the shooting forth of the Shoulder-bone like a beek which is called Coracoides Anchoralis and Cornicularis Androgynus or an Hermaphrodite is one who hath both Man and Womans Members also one who has had his Members cut out also Effeminate Aneurisma is a dilatation or bursting of the Arteries always beating and swelling sometimes to the bigness of an Egg which yields if you compress it but recoils presently Angina is an Inflamation of the Jaws or Throat attended with a continual Fever and a difficulty of respiration and swallowing and it is two-fold either Supria or Exquisita a bastard or a true Squincie the later is again four-fold Synanche Parasynanche Cynanche and Parachynanche of all which in their proper place Anhelatio See Asthma Ani procidentia See Procidentia ani Animal is facultas the Animal Faculty is an Action whereby a man exercises Sense Motion and the principle functions of the Mind which are three Imagination Ratiocination and Memory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purgare to discharge upwards as in a Vomit c. opposite whereunto is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purgare to do it downwards Anodynum is a Medicine that allays Pain Anoea is Madness or an extinction of the Imagination and Judgment Anomeomeres is the same with Heterogeneus or that which consists of several and different Particles Anorexia is a loathing of Meat arising from an ill disposition of the Stomach Antagonista is the opposite Situation of Muscles as may be seen betwixt the Adductor and Abductor that which contracts and expands the Arm. Antarthriticam is a Medicine against the Gout Antasthmatica are Medicines proper for Asthmatic people Antecedens causa See Proegumena Antecedentia signa Antecedent Signs are such as are observed before a Disease as an ill disposition of the Pancreatic Juice or the Bile is an Antecedent cause to infinite Diseases Antemetica are such things as hinder Vomiting too much Antendaxis is a Countre-indication or a contradictory indication which forbids that to be used which the former indication suggested as proper as for instance abundance of ill juice in blood requires Evacuation but then again the weakness of the Patient may forbid it Antepileptica are Medicines against the Falling-sickness Anthelix is the Protuberance of the Ear or the inward brink of the outward Ear. Antherum is any thing that 's florid in our Bodies Anthera are also the tops in the middle of Flowers which lean upon little hairy threads Anthracosis oculi is a scalie corrosive Ulcer of the Eye attended with a Defluxion and fear of the whole Body especially about the Eyes The Cause is now and then an Inflamation of the Eye from a Malignant Fever Anthrax Carbo Pruna or Carbunculus is defined to be a Tumor that arises in several places surrounded with hot fiery and most sharp Pimples accompanied with acute Pain but without ever being suppurated and when it spreads it self farther it burns the Flesh throws off lobes of it when it is rotten and leaves an Ulcer behind it as if it had been burnt in with an Iron Anthypnotica are Medicines which hinder Sleep Anthysterica are Medicines good against the Fits of the Mother Antias in the Plural Antiades Tonsillae Glandules of the Neck which Chyrurgeons commonly call Almonds which they do not too much resemble neither They are two Glandules which in reality make but up one Body placed at the sides of the Epiglottis or cover of the Wind-pipe its substance is similar and made like separate Grains just like Honey or Oyl hardned with cold but that they stick closer together as if they were joyned by a Membrane 't is of somewhat a yellowish Colour and soft it had on each side one common large oval hollow passage which opens into the Mouth within the skirt whereof it contains two somewhat big and several less Cavities It s use is to collect the snotty viscous Matter and to moisten the adjacent parts therewith It signifies also the Inflamations of these parts See Paristhmia Antiballomena are Medicines of a like strength which are now and then used in the defect of one another Apothecaries call them quid pro quo Anticardium is a cavity in the Breast above the region or place of the Heart Anticnemium is the former part of the Leg. Antidotum is a Medicine against deadly Poyson Antinephritica are Medicines which Cure the Distempers of the Reins Antipathia is a Contrariety and Repugnancy in the Body or in Medicines also a loathing and abhorrence of any thing without a manifest cause Antiperistasis is the surrounding of the Air as in Hay that is cocked and made up into Ricks too moist Hippocrates the first great Author of Physick says in his Aphorisms That Bodies are hotter in Winter and colder in Summer I interpret it thus That this does not come onely from the Antiperistasis of the Air but from the Nitre with which the Air in Winter-time is impregnated especially when the North-Wind blows so that when we come to breathe the Sulphureous Blood is more fermentated and inflamed in the Lungs Antipharmacum is a Remedy against Poyson or a Remedy against any other Disease Antipleuriticum signifies any Remedy against a Pleâ—risie Antipyreuticum or antipureticum is a Medicine that temperates and allays too much heat in Fevers as any acides do Antiqui morbi old Diseases are such as from the fourth day continue often many Years and therefore they are called also inveterate Antipasis is a revulsion of a Disease that is when Humours which flow into some one part are turned into another by the opening of a Vein in a remote part Antispasmodicum is a Medicine that hinders contractions Antispasticum is a Medicine that diverts Distempers to other parts Antitasis is an opposite placing of parts in the Body as the Liver and the Spleen Antrum buccinosum the same with Cochlea Anus is the extremity of the intestinum rectum it consists of Three Muscles two called levatores which distend and open it in time of necessity and one called Sphincter which shuts it and keeps it so It is also a cavity in the Brain which arises from the contact of four Truncs of the Spinal Marrow also the Skin which goes over the Navel which when wrinkled are a
papillares are Ten little Bodies that are in the Reins they are properly little bundles which arise from the centring together of a great many small Channels which the Reins are in a great measure made up of and these receive the Serum from the little ductuses and convey it into the Pelvis Casus Uvulae see in Cion Cataclida is the first Rib called the Subclavian Catagma is the breaking of bones or a separation of the Continuum in the hard parts of the body which is effected with some hard Instrument forcibly impressed upon the part whose differences are taken from the Form the Part and several accidents Catalepsis or Catochus is an abolition of all the Animal Functions wherein the Respiration remains entire and the Patient preserves the same habit of body that he had before he fell sick the cause of it seems to consist in the Obstruction or Angustation of the Corpus striatum in those Pores by which Objects are Represented in the brain so that there 's no perception of any Object but the Pores by which the Animal Spirits are Conveyed from the Brain to the Organs of Sense are left free and open Catalotica the same with Cicatrizantia Catamenia are Womens Courses which gathering every Month by the Fermentation of the blood and being come to a Turgency by the Accession of a Ferment that is in the Womb discharge themselves at their set-time others say they proceed from Seed bred in the Testicles and communicated to the blood Some ascribe the Courses to the motions of the Moon but if this were true then all Women would have them at the same time They begin at Twelve Thirteen or Fourteen Years of age and stop about Fifty but this cannot be exactly determined they are supprest in breeding-Women and Nurses yet this is not a rule neither Catapasma is Fragrant Powder which by reason of its Scent is strewed amongst clothes also a fragrant Powder which after anointing is applied to the Stomach or Heart Cataphora is the same with Coma they only differ in this that Cataphora is taken as the genus to all sorts of Stupors that are not attended with a Fever Cataplasma is a Topical Medicine of the consistence of a Pultise it is usually prescribed two ways either boiled or without it the former is more frequent the latter of more efficacy In the former they are to take such Vegetables as are proper as Roots Herbs Seeds Flowers Fruits c. adding proper Meals or omitting them all which are boiled up in a convenient quantity of Liquor v. g. Water Beer Milk Honey c. to the consistence of a Pultise the latter is prepared commonly of Vegetables shred small with the Infusion of so much Liquor onely as may make it of the former consistence You may add here Meal crumbs of Bread Oyles Oyntments as in the former sort of Cataplasms too Catapotium commonly Pillula is a Medicine given inwardly Purging Pills Cataptosis is one Symptome of an Epilepsie when Men fall suddenly to the Ground Cataracta is Two-fold either beginning or a suffusion onely or confirmed or a Cataract properly so called the incipient is but a suffusion of the Eye when little Clouds Motes and Flies seem to flie before the Eyes but the confirmed Cataract is when the Pupil of the Eye is either wholly or in part covered and shut up with a little thin Skin so that the Sun-beams have not due admittance to the Eye Confirmed Cataracts are cured with thrusting a Needle through the Albugineous and the hornie Membrane as far as the Cataract which is to be depressed with the Needle and if it start back to be broken then the Eye is to be tied up with Water of Roses the white of an Egg and Alumn all shaken together Catarrhopus is when Humours Vapours or Wind go downward Catasarca the same with Anasarca Cataschesis is a good state of Body opposite to an Hectic Catastasis is a disposition of Humane Body or of time Catatasis is an Extension of the Body towards the lower parts Catheretica are Medicines that take away superfluities Catharma the same that Catharcticum Catharrbus is a Defluction of Humours from the Head towards the parts under it as the Nostrils the Mouth Lungs c. Catharsis the same with Catharcticum Catharticum is a purging Medicine which cleanses the Stomach the Guts and whatsoever is vitious and heterogeneous in the Blood and throws it into the Common-shore of the Guts See Purgatio Vomitorium Cathemerina the same with Quotidiana Febris Catheter is a Fistulous Instrument which is thrust up the Yard into the Bladder to provoke Urine when it is suppressed by the Stone or into whose cavity an Instrument called Itinerarium is thrust to find out the Stone in the Bladder that then the Sphincter of the Bladder may be shown and an Incision be made in the Perinaeum i. e. betwixt the Fundament and the Privities Cathetetrismus is the Administration or Operation of Injecting any thing into the Bladder by a Catheter or a Siringe Catholicum is a common Medicine that expels all ill Humours which is kept in the shops 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purgare to Purge downwards Catoche the same with Catalepsis Catochus the same with Catalepsis Catopsis the same with Myopia Catoretica the same with Purgantia Cavitates are the greatest Cavities in the Body wherein some Principal part is contained as the Brain in the Head in the Chest the Lungs Heart c. in the Abdomen the Liver Spleen Reins Stomach Intestines Bladder c. and they are three the Head the Chest the Belly Cavitates minores are the Ventricles of the Heart and Brain of which in their proper place Cauledon is the breaking of the bones a cross when the parts of the bones are so separated that they will not lay direct Causodes the same with Causus Caustica or Escharotica are those things which burn the Skin and Flesh into an hard crust as burnt Brass unquenched Lime sublimated Mercury and hot Iron c. Causus or a burning Fever is that which is attended with a greater heat than other continued Fevers an intolerable thirst and other Symptoms which argue an extraordinary accension of the blood and that which formerly discriminates it from other putrid Fevers is that the temper of the blood is hotter i. e. abounds more with combustible Sulphur and therefore when it begins to boyl is accended in a greater measure and in its deflagration diffuses Particles of most Intense Heat through the whole body its Motion is acute it comes presently to its height is accompanied with dreadful Symptoms has a very difficult Crisis and a dangerous Event Cauterium is a Chyrurgeons Instrument made of Iron Silver or Gold which after 't is healed has an actual power of burning into any thing they differ in Bulk and in Form it is sometimes taken for a potential cauterie prepared of Lixiviums or Lime and Sope. Cedmata are defluxions upon the Joynts
Gargareon Gurgulio uva uvula uvigena uvigera epiglottis sublinguium is the cover of the Wind-pipe it hangs betwixt the two Glandules called Amygdalae above the Chink of the Larynx and is a Process from a Substance as one would think Glandulous Spongie and Red which Columbus is of opinion arises from the Tunic of the Mouth redoubled in that place But Riolan says it proceeds from some Muscles which are terminated there it is a Figure roundly Oblong in the upper part thicker and ending Obtusely in an Acute It s use is to attemperate the coldness of the Air and to hinder the Drink from falling upon the Nostrils sometimes this Uvula sticks out too far from the Humours that fall upon it which cannot return by the Lymphatic Vessels whence proceeds the falling of the Uvula which we call Roof of the Mouth Cionis the same with Cion Circuitus the same with Periodus Circulatio sanguinis see periodus Circulatio Chymica is the Exaltation of pure I iquor by a Circular Distillation in an Instrument called a Pelicane or a blind Alymbic by the virtue of Heat Circulatorium is a Glass Vessel wherein the Liquor infused by its Ascending and Descending rowls about as it were in a Circle there are several sorts of these Vessels but two especially of moment and use that called Pelicanus and the other Diota Circulus is a round Instrument made of Iron for the cutting of Glass which is performed thus The Instrument being heated is applyed to the Glass and is there continued till it grow hot then with a drop of cold water or a cold blast upon it it flies in pieces Cirsocele is a swelling of the preparing Vessels about the Testicles so that they sometimes look like a Third Testicle Cirsos or Varix is a Dilatation and swelling of the Veins crooked or winding and arising in one or more parts of the Body insomuch that the Veins threaten a Rupture Citta or Pica is a depraved Appetite when people long for those things which are not fit to be nor are ever eat as Lime Coles Shells Cloth Hides Sand c. that cause lies in the Depravation of the ferment of the Ventricle Claretum is an Aromatic Wine impregnated with an Infusion and sweetned with Sugar it is otherwise called Vinum Hypocraticum Hypocras Wine also a medicated Wine It is so called because it is percolated and purified by a Wine-sack through which it is drained from its dregs called Manica Hippocratis Clarificatio is when Juices or thick Decoctions become clearer and finer which is done three ways by subsiding Fermentation or the addition of Vinegar white of an Egg or Milk Claviculae are two little Bones which close the Chest of a Man fastening the Shoulder-bone like a Key with the Breast bone that part where the Ribs joyn together they are otherwise called Ligulae or Furcale Furcala Superior c. they are placed transverse under the very bottom of the Neck in the top of the Breast on each side one Clavus see Helos Clavus according to Tornamira is a pain in a small part of the Head commonly above the Eye in the Eye-brow and seems as if that part of the Head were bored through with a little Auger or Wimble Cleidion the same with Clavicula Clitoris is a part in a Woman resembling the Yard of a Woman whose use is Titillation it consists like a Mans Yard of two Nervous Bodies which arise from the lower part of the bones of the Privities and at the end is covered with a Nut and a Prepuce or fore-skin its substance is spungie so that it is capable of increase and Relaxation but is not perforated as in Men. Clydon is a Fluctuation in the Ventricle Clysma the same with Clyster Clyster and Clysterium or Enema is a fluid Medicine given inwardly injected into the Bowels by the Fundament some Clysters are softening and loosning others scouring others astringent others which ease pain and others for other uses Clyster is sometimes taken in a larger sence for Mehenchyta Otenchyta Ritenchyta c. which see in their proper places Cuismus the same with Pruritus Coccyx the last Portion of the Back is made up of three little Bones sometimes four which are under the Os Sacrum and serve for easier sitting Cochlea is the cavity of the inner part of the Ear so called from its windings and turnings for it has three or four Rings which mutually succeed one another it is girt about with a very soft and thin Membrane Coctio Concoction or Digestion is the fermentation of the smallest Particles which our Nourishment consists of that they may be made fit and proper for the nourishment and increase of a Living Body The first Concoction is made in the Stomach by a Ferment which partly remains there from the reliques of the former Meat and partly flows thither from the Caeliac Arteries The second is made in the Guts by the Gall and Pancreatick juice The third is in the Glandules of the Mesenterie from a Lympha or Water which mixes it self with the Chyle The fourth is in the Lungs from the Inspiration of Nitrous Air. The fifth is in the Vessels and Bowels as in the Spleen Liver Testicles c. It is ill called coction or boiling because 't is the property of Fire to boyl for if Heat were the cause of Fermentation what should be then of Fish and other things wherein there 's no sensible heat at all Codia are the tops of Poppies of which they make Syrup Cecum intestinum is the Fourth in order from the Stomach and first of the thick Guts in Children new born 't is found full of Excrements but in Adult persons its Cavitie often disappears and onely hangs like a Worm Caelia is a great Cavity as the uppermost middle and the lowest Region or Cavity Caeliaca Arteria is that which arises from the Trunc of the great Arterie and spreads it self towards the Ventricle and Liver with its Branches Coeliaca passio or Affectio is a Purging wherein the Meat either wholly changed or in part is ejected without any Chilification and it is twofold the first in which the Meat is onely Digested in the Stomach the other when Concoction or Fermentation is performed in the Stomach and Intestines both at once but by reason that the Lacteal Vessels or little Teats of the Guts are Obliterated through long Fasting a Purulent Dissenterie or the like the Chyle is not distributed Coeloma is a hollow and round Ulcer in the Horny Tunic of the Eye Coelum is the Cavitie of the Eye towards the Corners The Palate is also called Coelum Cohobatio is when a distilled Liquor is poured upon its Menstruum again and afterwards is Distilled Coindicantia are signs which do not indicate by themselves but by another Colatura is that which after Boyling or Infusion is percolated through a Sive or Cloth Colcâ—thar is the dry Substance which remains after Distillation commonly called Caput mortuum
place in the Brain so called covered over with the Rete mirabile in many Brutes but not in Man it receives the serous Humour from the Infindibulum and the Rete Mirabule which it sends into the Jugular Veins and the Lymphatic Vessels Glandulosum Corpus the same with Prostata Glans the same with Balanus and Suppositorium Glaucoma is a fault in the Eye or a Transmutation of the Chrystaline Humour into a gray or sky-colour Glaucosis the same with Glaucoma Glene the same with Pupilla also the Cavitie of a Bone which receives another within it Glenoides are two Cavities in the lower part of the first Vertebre of the Neck Globulus Nasi is the lower Cartilaginous moveable part of the Nose Glossocomium is a Chyrurgions Instrument for broken Limbs so called from the shape of a Merchants little Casket which was formerly carried upon the back Glottis is the Chink of the Larynx which is covered by the Epiglottis Gluten says Avicen is a Secundary Humour and is so called when that dewie Humour is Agglutinated to the parts there were reckoned four of them Humor Innominatus that had no name Ros Glutea and Cambium but those Names are now out-dated Glutei are six Muscles which move the Buttocks on each side three Glutia are two Prominences of the Brain called Nates Glutos is the greater Rotator an Apophysis in the upper part of the Thigh-bone so called of the Buttock and the Thigh-bone named Trochanter Gomphoma the same that Gomphosis Gomphos is when the Pupil of the Eye going beyond a little skin of the Tunica uvea is like that swelling of hard Flesh in the corner of the Eye called Clavus Gomphosis or Conclavatio is when one Bone is fastned into another like a Nail as may be seen in the Teeth Gonorrhaea is a too great Effusion of Seed and it is either Simple when Crude thin Seed which is not white neither is Emitted and that rather from the Prostates then the Seminarie Vessels or Virulent when a Poysonous liquid Substance of a white or yellowish Colour is Ejected Gramma the same with Scrupulus Graudo see Chalasia Granum a Grain is the least weight we use they take instead of it sometimes white Pepper Corns twenty make a Scruple Graphoides is a Process like the Pen for a Table-book about the Basis of the Brain it inclines backward Gravedo the same with Coryza Gula see Pharynx Gumma Gallicum is the eating out a Bone in the French Pox. Gurgulio the same that Cion Gustus the Taste is a Sense whereby the Soul perceives the Taste of things from the Motion of the Nerve inserted into the Tongue and Palate for that purpose Gutta rosacea is a redness with Pimples wherewith the Cheeks Nose and whole Face is deformed as if it were sprinkled with red drops these Pimples or Wheals often increase so that they render the Face rough and horrid and the Nose monstrously big Gutturis os the same that Hyoides os Gymnastica the same that Evectica Gynaecia in general are the Accidents incident to Women but Hippocrates takes them more strictly for the Courses Gynaecomastum is a growing of the Breasts Gynaecomystax is a Tuft of Hair at the upper part of a Womans Secrets from this some take their estimate of the temperament of the Womb and the Testicles H. HAbitus the same with Hexis Haematosis or Sanguification depends principally upon the Fermentation Dissolution and Union of Particles to wit Spirit Sulphur and Salt especially upon the inspiration of Nitrous Air which accends the Sulphureous Blood in the Lungs Sanguification is performed in all the parts of the Body and not in any peculiar part as the Heart Liver or Spleen Haemodia is a great pain in the Teeth which proceeds from Acid and austere Particles which penetrate the Pores of the Teeth whence the Nerves being Vellicated and Contracted cause pain Haemophobus is one who fears to be let Bood Haemoptysis is the Spitting up of Blood from the Lungs which proceeds either from a sweating out at the Glandules of the Larynx with which its Tunic is clothed within to wit when the openings of the Arteries are too much Relaxed or from some great Vessels that are broke or out of the little Bladers of the Lungs themselves Haemorrhagia is a Flux of Blood at the Nostrils Mouth or Eyes Haemorrhoides are swelling Inflamations in the Rectum or about the Fundament red and painful which sometimes send forth Blood or Matter Haemorrhoidis vena is a Branch of the Vena Portae the great Vein of all extending to the Rectum and the Fundament Halo is a red spot of flesh which surrounds each Nâ—pple in the Breasts Hama when a Dose is took off at once Harmonia is a joyning of Bones by a plain Line as may be seen in the Bones of the Nose and Palate Haustus or Potio is a Liquid Medicine taken inwardly made into one Dose of several Ingredients mixed with a suitable Liquor by Decoction Infusion or Dissolution to Purge alter or Sweat Hectica is a continued Fever arising from the very habit of the body and introduced in a long time and has so rooted it self into the very Constitution that it is infinitely difficult ever to Cure it for the most part it is accompanied with an Ulcer of the Lungs Leanness and a Cough Hedisma is any thing that gives Medicines a good scent Hegemonicae are the principal Actions in Human Body as the Actions Animal and Vital Helcydria are certain little Ulcers thick and red in the skin of the Head like the Nipples of Breasts which send forth Matter Helctica see Attrahentia Heliosis is a Sunning Helix is the Exterior brim of the Ear so called from its Winding The Interior is called Scapha Helminthes see Elminthes Helodes see Elodes Helos or Clavus is a round white callous swelling of the Foot like the head of a Nail and fixed in the Roots of the hard Skin of the Foot Haelesis is a reflexed inversion of the Eye-lid Hemeralopia or Acies Necturna is when one sees better in the Night than in the Day Hemicrania is an Head-ach in either part of the Brain Hemina Italica is a Measure containing half an Attic Sextarie and nine Ounces So much is a Cotyla Attica and a Cotyla Italica is Twelve Ounces Hemipagia the same that Hemicrania Hemiplegia is a Palsie on one side below the Head proceeding from an Obstruction in one part or other of the Spinal Marrow or from a blow whence it comes to pass that the Animal Spirits are Obstructed in their passage Hemiplexia the same that Hemiplegia Hepar the Liver is a Parenchymous Substance placed under the right side of the Diaphragme considerably thick and big in a Man it is clothed with a thin Membrane which proceeds from the Peritonaeum and is fastned to other parts with three strong Ligaments 1. To the Abdomen by the Navel-vein 2. Upwards to the Diaphragme by a broad thin Membranous Ligament on the right
warms the Breast Thrombus is the Coagulation of Blood or Milk into Clots or Clusters Thymiama see Suffitus Thymus is a Glandule in the Throat which separates the watery Humour called Lympha from the Blood and empties it by the Lymphatick Vessels It is also a fleshy Tumour that hangs upon the Body like a Wart of a Colour like the Flower of Time whence it has its Name Thyroarytaenoides is a pair of Muscles that proceed from the Cartilage called Scutiformis and extending themselves forward to the Sides of the Arytaenoides the fourth and fifth part of the Larynx serve to contract and close the opening of the Larynx Thyroidaeae Glandulae are two of a viscous solid bloody Substance wonderfully adorned with Vessels of all sorts and hard Membranes almost of the bigness and shape of an Hen's Egg situate about the lower seat of the Larynx at the sides of the Cartilages of the Thorax Cricoides and some first rings of the Wind-Pipe upon which Parts they immediately lye yet so as they may be easily separated unless where they stick something obstinately about the beginning and the end Nature has placed them in those parts that they may warm them when cold receive superfluous Moisture and contribute to the Ornament of the Neck Thyroides is the Cartilage called Scutiformis of the Larynx Also the Hole of the Os pubis Tibia the Leg is the part betwixt the Knee and the Ancle It consists of two Bones One outward called Focile minus another Inward and larger which has usurped the Name of the whole and is called Tibia Focile majus others call it Canna major The upper end has a Process which is received by a Cavity in the Thigh and two oblong Cavities to admit the Heads of the Thigh-bone the Depth of which Cavities is encreased by a Cartilage that is annexed thereunto by Ligaments This Cartilage is movable soft slippery moistened with an unctuous Humour thick in its Circumference and smaller towards the Center whence it is called Lunata made like an Half-moon there are rugged sharp Ligaments before which Encrease the Lunary Cartilages The fore part which is acute and long is called Spina There is below a prominent and gibbous Process in the inner side nigh the Foot and is called Malleolus externus one of the Ankle-bones Tinctura a Tincture or Elixir is the Extraction of the Colour Quality and Strength of any thing Tinea if running Sores in the Head full of little Holes called Achores continue long or be too slowly or ill cured they grow into Tineas crusty stinking Ulcers of the Head which gnaw and consume its Skin therefore it is deservedly reckoned amongst the Diseases of Children but when they are a little grown for tho Adult Persons are sometimes troubled with this Disease yet they contracted the Rudiments and Seeds of it in their Infancy It is called Tinea which signifies a Moth from those little Worms which eat and consume Clothes because those Ulcers prey upon the Skin of the Head as those Animals upon Clothes What the Greeks called this Distemper is not so obvious Tinnitus Aurium is a certain Buzzing or tingling in the Ears proceeding from Obstruction or something that irritates the Ear whereby the Air that is shut up is continually moved by the beating of the Arteries and the Drum of the Ear is lightly verberated whence arises a Buzzing and Noise Tometica the same that Attenuantia Tomotocia the same that Hysterotomia Tonica are those things which being externally applied to and rubb'd into the Limbs strengthen the Nerves and Tendons Tonotica the same that Tonica Tonicus the same that Tetanus Tonsillae see Paristhmia Tophus is a stony Concretion in any part Topica are Medicines applied outwardly as a Plaister Cataplasm c. Topinaria the same that Talpa Torcular Herophili is that place where the four Cavities of the thick Skin of the Brain are joyned Tormina alvi the same that Colica Passio Toxica are poysonous Medicaments wherewith Barbarians use to anoint their Arrows Trachea the same that aspera Arteria Trachoma is a Scab or Asperity of the inner part of the Eye-lid Trageae differ not from Powders but that the Ingredients whereof they are prepared are not beat so small And they are applied externally to the Body either put to or resolved into Smoak or they are put into a Linnen Bag and then into Wine or other Liquor that they may communicate their Strength and Qualities to it Yet sometimes they are compounded of some sort of Antidotes or Counter-poisons and other odoriferous things and of simple Medicines reduced into a Powder with an Addition of Sugar In the making these they commonly take one Ounce of Sugar to every Dram of Ingredient especially those which are bitter and unpleasant Tragema the same that Tragaea Tragus is the extream Brim of the Ear. Traulus and Traulotes is a Stammering or fault in pronouncing the Letters L and R. Trauma see Troma Traumatica are those things which being taken in Decoctions and Potions fetch the serous and sharp Humours out of the Body and so attenuate the Blood that it may be conveniently driven to the wounded broken or bruised parts Tremor see Tromos Trepanum the same that Modiolus Triangulare ossiculum the triangular little Bone is that which is placed betwixt the Suture called Lambdoides and another called Sagittalis which they say conduces too to the Falling-Sickness Trichiasis the same that Phalangosis Also hairy Urine such as by reason of pituitous Humours Hairs seem to swim in Tricongius is a Measure that contains eighteen Sextaries a Sextary being about a Pint and an half Triens is the Third part of a physical Pound containing three Ounces Tripsis is Contrition or Contusion Trismus is the grinding of the Teeth or a Convulsion of a Muscle of the Temples whereby the Teeth gnash whether one will or no. Tritaeophyes is an Ague that comes every Third day Tritaeus the same that Febris Tertiana intermittens Trituratio is a Pounding whereby Medicines are reduced to Powder that they may be the better mixed Trochanter the same that Rotator Trochisci Trochies are round marked things made of Pouders mixed with viscous Extracts and made up into Paste and then into round little Bodies which are to be dried up in the Shade They are called also Pastilli Trochlea the same that Bathmis Trochlearis is the upper or greater oblique Muscle of the Eye Troma is a Wound from an external Cause Trombosis is a Coagulation of Milk or Blood in Human Bodies Tromos is a Trembling or a Depravation of the voluntary Motion of Members Trysmus see Trismus Tubae Fallopianae are two slender Passages proceeding from the Womb which when they are a little removed from it grow gradually wider they have large Holes or Orifices which almost lye shut the extream Edges falling flat yet if they be diligently opened and dilated they represent the extream Orifice of a brazen Pipe Their Use is to receive
is the falling down of some part as of the Eye the Caule c. Prospheromena are Meats or Medicines taken inwardly Prosphysis is a Coalition or growing together as when two Fingers are connected to each other Prostatae Adstantes or Corpora glandulosa are two Glandules under the seminal Bladders near the Passage of the Seed which as may be guessed Lubricitates the common Passage of the Seed and Urine and is a Vehicle to the seminal Matter and are said to provoke the Titillation in Coition Their Moisture being conveyed by certain little Tubes which terminate in the Passage near where the Seed is ejected is emitted at the same time with it The Learned Bartholine has observed some such thing in Women Prostethis is the fore-side of the Breast also a fleshy part in the Hollows of the Feet and Hands and betwixt the Fingers Prostesis a part of Surgery which fills up what is wanting as we see in hollow and fistulous Ulcers fill'd up with Flesh by Chirurgery Protopathia is a primary Disease not caus'd by another Protuberantia vid. Apophysis Provocatorii Dies see Critici Dies and Intercalares Pruna see Carbunculus Pruritus the Itch is a dry Unevenness of the Skin caused by Saline fixed Particles pricking the Skin and kept in by others more retentive which cannot exhale Psammismus a Bath of dry and warm Sand wherewith the Feet of Men in the Dropsy are dryed Psammodea are sandy and gravelly Matter in the Urine Psammos a Gravel which breeds in Mens Bodies and is voided in Fits of the Stone Psilothron is a Medicine wherewith Hairs are either taken out of the Body or thinned if they be extreme rough Psoas are Muscles of the Loins which proceed from about the two lowermost Vertebres of the Thorax and the three uppermost Vertebres of the Loins or Flank They descend obliquely upon the Rotator minor of the Thigh and bend the Thigh Psora is a wild Scab that makes the Skin Scaly Psoriasis is a dry itching Scab of the Cods which is often accompanied with an Exulceration Psorica are Medicines against the Scab Psorophthalmia is an itching Scab of the Eyes Psyctica are cooling Medicines Psydracia according to Paulus and Alexander are little Ulcers of the Skin of the Head like those which are wont to burn the Skin Celsus says they are an hard sort of Pustle something whitish and acute out of which is squeezed a moist Matter Psydraces according to others are little Pustles or Pimples which break out upon the Skin like Bubbles by reason of the Winter cold Psylothrum see Psilothron Ptarmica or Sternuta loria are those things which being endowed with a more piercing Acrimony than their Errhinaceous Medicines do so extreamly irritate and shrivel up the Membranes of the Brain that it sends forth the pituitous Humour at the Nostrils in an extraordinary Measure Pterna see Calx Pterygium is the Wing or round Rising of the Nose or Eye or the Process of the Bone Sphenoides which is like a Wing Also a membranous Excrescence above the horney Tunic of the Eye called Vnguis and Vngula growing for the most part from the inner corner towards the Apple of the Eye and often obscuring it Also the Nymphae of a Womans secret Parts Pterygoides are the Processes and Muscles of the Wedg-like Bone Pterystaphylini are Muscles of the peice of Flesh in the Roof of the Mouth called Gargareon which proceed from the Wing-like Processes and are terminated in the sides of the Vvula or Gargareon Ptylosis is when the Brims of the Eye-lids being grown thick the Hairs of the Eye-Brows fall off Ptisana Ptisan is a Decoction of Barley husked Liquorish Raisins Ptyalismus is a too great Spitting Ptyalon is Spit or that Matter which is brought up from the Lungs by Coughing for Saliva which we English Spittle too properly signifies the Moisture which is excerned by the Ductus Salivales Ptysma see Ptyalon Pugillus is an handful of any Herbs Others interpret it as much as may be taken up with three Fingers Pulmones the Lungs are Organs of Respiration The Famous Malpighius makes the Substance of the Lungs excepting the Nerves a few Vessels and the Branches of the Wind-Pipe to be nothing but an Heap of little Bladders the contexture whereof is so ordered that there 's a Passage into them from the Wind-Pipe and into one another till they all open into the Membrane which clothes the Lungs The use of the Lungs is to breathe withal and to mix and accend the Blood with the Nitre they suck in Pulpa is the fleshy part of Fruits Roots or other Bodies which is extracted by Infusion or Boyling and passing through a Sive As the Pulp of Tamarinds Cassia Althaea Dates c. Pulsus the Pulse is the immediate Index of the Heart by the mediation whereof the Blood is diffused through the whole Body and is differently affected thereby according to the different Influx of the Animal Spirits the Motion whereof is chiefly to be attributed to the circular and direct Fibres Others affirm it to be the Dilatation and Contraction of the Heart and Blood A Pulse is either natural or preternatural of the former we have spoken already the latter is such as is different according to the different Circumstances of the Fibres and Animal Spirits to wit strong weak swift slow equal unequal intermittent c. Pulvilli the same with Splenia Pulvis see Species Punctum lachrymale see Lachrymale punctum Punctum saliens in the growth of an Egg you see a little Speck or Cloud as it were in the innermost Tunic of it called Amnios which growing gradually thicker acquires a kind of slimy Matter in the middle whereof you see first this Punctum saliens a little Speck that seems to leap afterward the rude Body of an Embrio just like a shapeless kind of Maggot which tends every Day more and more to Perfection Pupilla or Pupula is the opening of the Tunic of the Eye called Vvea or Choroides it is round in Man and is wont to be contracted or dilated like a Muscle according to the different Influx of the Animal Spirits Pupula see Pupilla Purgantia Purging Medicines are those which by reason of a peculiar disposition of their parts irritate the fleshy Fibres of the Ventricle which become swoln and consequently contracted at the right end so that the whole Substance of the Stomach is drawn up together and inclined towards the Pylorus whence follows an Excretion downwards Purgatio Purging is an Excretory Motion quick and frequent proceeding from a quick and orderly Contraction of the carneous Fibres of the Stomach and Intestines whereby the Chyle and Excrements and corrupted Humors either bred or sent there from other parts are protruded from part to part till they be quite excluded the Body Pus see Pyon Pustulae Pimples are the Recrements of ill Blood that shoot forth in the Skin and for want of Perspiration or too viscous a Matter stick there and
cause an unequal Surface Putrefactio Chymica is the Dissolution of a concrete Body by natural Rottenness in a moist Heat which corrupts the very Substance of it and penetrates its most intimate Parts Pyon or Pus is putrified Blood concocted into white Matter Pycnosis see Pycnotica Pycnotica see Incrassantia Pyelos see Choana Pylorus or Janitor is the right Orifice of the Ventricle which sends the Meat out of the Stomach Pyosis is a Collection of Pus in any paâ—â— of the Body Pyramidales Musculi are placed in the Abdomen and lye upon the lowest Tendons of the right Muscles They are not parts of the right Muscles as Vesalius and Columbus are of opinion but distinct as Falopius proves tho with some pertinent some impertinent Arguments The peculiar Membrane wherewith they are clothed and the order of their Fibres shew them to be different from the right Muscles They proceed from the external Os Pubis and the higher they climb the narrower they grow and end about the Navel in the white Seam sometimes they are wanting or the left is less than the right or the right than the left Pyramidalia are Vessels which prepare the Seed of which in their proper place Also Muscles of the Nostrils and of the Abdomen called Pyramidales or of a Pyramidical Figure Also two Strings of Marrow about the Basis of the oblongated Marrow Pyretologia is a Description of Fevers Of which Dr. Willis has writ most accurately Pyrotechnia the same that Chymia Pyrotica or Vrentia are Medicines virtually hot which being applied to Human Bodies grow extreamly hot because that having Particles and Pores so ordered that Vapors and Humors insinuating into them the subtile Matter finds such Passages that it being moved extream violently forces certain earthy hard and acute Particles which slote in the Passages upon the neighbouring parts with great Impetuosity and so excites an Heat which corrupts or changes differently according to the diversity of its Motion and the Particles which are moved Such are things that cause Redness that blister that ripen or rot that close up and bring Wounds to a Crust and that pull Hairs out of the Body Pyulcus is an Instrument wherewith Pus or corrupted Matter is evacuated Pyxis is the Cavity of the Hip-Bone which is called Acctabulum Q. QVadrans Physitians reckon a Weight of three Ounces that is the fourth part of a Roman Pound Qualitas is a Disposition or Contexture of little Particles whence our Bodies may be any way denominated of such a Quality Quality is manifest hidden poysonous contagious Pestilent c. Quartana febris intermittens a Quartan Ague which the Ancients called Saturn's Daughter It is at this Day a Scandal to Physicians because it is so hard to be cured by those who follow the old way It is a preternatural Effervescence of the Blood which attaques a Man every fourth Day and then leaves him It is caused by an acid austere Blood and nutritious Juice hindred in its Assimilation Quartarium the same that Quadrans Quid pro Quo is when a Medicine of one Nature and Quality is substituted for another which is not to be done without the consent of Physicians Quinta Essentia see Essentia quinta Quotidiana febris intermittens an intermitting Quotidian Ague is that which returns every Day and proceeds from crude Blood and an ill Assimilation of Chyle R. RAbdoides the same that Sutura Sagittalis Rabies Hydrophobica see Hydrophobia Rachitae and Rachiaei are Muscles belonging to the Back Rachitis see Rhachitis Radicales dies see Critici dies Radius is the less Bone of the Cubit called Focile minus it is more oblique than the great Bone called Vlna and is distant a little from it in the middle where there occurs a small Ligament Above the Vlna receives the Radius and below the Radius receives it The upper part of the Radius is jointed with the outward Process of the Arm by Diarthrosis which see the lower by way of Appendix with the wrist Bone at the middle Finger It s upper end is small and the lower thick It is also the greater Bone of the Leg. Ramex see Hernia Ranula see Hypoglossum Raphe see Sutura Rarefacientia rarifying Remedies are such as by dissipating a little the Vapours and Humors make the Pores of Bodies larger Rasetta the same that Carpus Raspatorium or Scalprum Rasorium is a Chirurgeons Instrument to scrape or shave filthy and scaly Bones with Raucedo the same that Branchus Recidivus morbus a Relapse is when the morbifick Matter that was left in the first Distemper begins to work and ferment again Rectificatio is a repeated distillation of Liquors to exalt and purify them the more Reduvia is a certain light Cleft or Chap in the Skin at the Roots of the Nails Refrigeratorium is a wooden Vessel full of Water with a streight or spiral Pipe in it of Tin or Lead which distilled Water is to flow through to cool it Regius morbus see Icterus Relaxantia see Chalastica Relaxatio is a Dilatation of Parts or Vessels Reminiscentia Remembrance is a Perception whereby the Ideas of things before perceived and impressed upon the Mind by Sensation or other Perception are again offered and represented to the Soul by the Mediation of Animal Spirits in the common Sensory either by their former Footsteps and Images impressed upon the Brain or by some Words or other Signs which awakened and stirred them up Or Reminiscence is an arbitrary drawing out of things which were before impressed upon the Brain for its own use Remissio Febrium a remitting of Fevers is a boyling down of hot and over-boyling Blood which is Absolute in intermittent Fevers and but Partial in continued ones Renes the Reins or Kidneys there are two of them in the Abdomen placed under the Liver and Spleen the right Kidney is lower in a Man than the left They are chiefly made up of little Channels or Conduits which arise from the Glandules that lye about the Extremities of the Arteries whence they receive the Serum which passes on to the Carunculae Papillares or little pieces of pappy Flesh to the Pelvis or Basin to the Ureters the Bladder and so out of Doors Renes succenturiati see Capsulae atrabilariae Repellentia are such things as by stopping the Heat and Afflux of Humors and by shutting up the Pores with their cold or binding Qualities decrease the swelling of a part and drive the Humors another way Res naturales Natural Things are three Health the Causes of Health and its Effects Others reckon seven as the Elements Temperaments Humors Spirits Parts Faculties Actions but Elements and Temperaments belong to natural Philosophy Humors Spirits and Parts are reckoned amongst the Causes of Health which consist of a good Temperature and a due Conformation Faculties and Actions are comprehended under the Effects of Health Res non naturales Things that are not Natural are Six Air Meat and Drink Motion and Rest Sleep and Waking the