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heart_n	artery_n	great_a	vein_n	5,327	5	10.3624	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50470	Rhachitidologia, or, A tract of the disease rhachitis, commonly called the rickets shewing the signes, cause, symptoms, and prognosticks : together with a most accurate and ingenious method of cure / written originally in Latin ... by ... Dr. John Mayow ... and now ... faithfully rendred into English by W.S. ; to which is subjoyn'd a profitable appendix, touching weights and measures us'd in the composition of medicines and exhibition of medicinal doses.	Mayow, John, 1641-1679.	1685 (1685)	Wing M1534; ESTC R43442	29,746	155

set down it's Division Sub. divisions and Characters as followeth The Greater Measures A Gallon Measure contains 2 Pottles or 8 Pounds A Pottle 2 Quarts 4 Pounds A Quart 2 Pints 4 Pounds The Smaller Measures The Pint measure contains 1 Pound-Troy or 12 Ounces The ½ Pint 6 Ounces The ¼ Pint 3 Ounces The ha ¼ P. 1 Ounce and ½ The Ounce 1 Ounce The ½ Ounce ½ Ounce The said Measures are usually exprest by the Marks or Characters of the Weights to which they are applicable as by the subsequent Table which likewise as that of Weights preceding is sufficiently explanatory in it self doth manifestly appear 3. And so we come gradually to the Mensuration-Table it self and shall propose one Question the Resolution whereof will give light enough as touching the Use of it A Table of MEASVRES for Liquids     lb. ℥ ℥ ß 1 Gallon is equivalent to 8 96 192 1 Pottle 4 48 96 1 Quart 2 24 48 1 Pint 1 12 24 ½ Pint 0 6 12 ¼ Pint 0 3 6 ½ Quarter 0 1½ 3 1 Ounce 0 1 2 ½ Ounce 0 ½ 1 A pretious Liquor drawn off per Alembicum to the quantity of 3 Quarts 1 Pint 1 half Pint 1 quarter-Pint was repos'd unciatim or Ounce by Ounce for common Sale now it is demanded how many Ounce Bottles were requisite for it's reposition Answer 93. For     ℥   2 Quarts or 1 Pottle is answerable to 48 In all 93 Ounces 1 Quart 24 1 Pint 12 ½ Pint 06 ¼ Pint 03 ☞ Note that Oyl is lighter than Wine by a ninth part and Honey is weightier than Wine by the half So that whatever Measure containeth of VVine 9 Ounces receiveth of Oyl but 8 Ounces and is capable to hold 13 Ounces and an half of Honey POSTSCRIPT IT may be expected that I should add an Interpretation of the Grecian Roman and Arabian Weights and Measures for the better understanding of some ancient Authors but they being in these days altogether obsolete I shall at present superlede FINIS The most difficult Terms of Art belonging to the afore-going Treatise and Appendix Alphabetically Explained ABdomen The lowest Cavity of the Body called the Paunch or Belly severed within from the Breast by the Midriff and bounden above by the Heart-pit and beneath by the Share-bones Aliment Nourishment Alterants or Alteratives Medicines that change or alter the Discrasy or evil Disposition of the Blood Anodyne That easeth Pains Aperients or Aperitives Medicines that open or take away Obstructions Aphorisms Short general Rules Arteries Mensbranous Spermatical Vessels which by Pulsation conveigh away the Blood from the Heart to the Veins Ascites A kind of Dropsie wherein the Abdomen is swelled like a Bottle from a watriss humor contained within the Cavity thereof Dr. Willis Asthma It is a difficult pursie Breathing with a great shaking of the Breast and for the most part without any Feaver D. W. Astringents Binding Medicines Atrophy A Consumption of the Flesh when the same wasteth away and the Food taken in doth not nourish Bolus So much of an Electuary or other solid Medicine as the Patient may well take at one time in his Mouth Cacochymical humours i. e. Evil or vicious humours Carminative That expelleth Wind. Carotid Arteries Two Arteries in the Neck that go up to the Brain Cartilage It is a similar Part Cold dry and void of sense flexible and not so hard as a Bone called also a Gristle or Tendrel as of the Ear or Nose Chirurgical Belonging to Chirurgery Colature It is taken for any Liquor slrained or separated from its Feculency Sediment or more gross Ingredients Concoction ' Digestion Concretion A gathering together or congealing of any substance Corroborant or Corroborative Strengthening or confirming Costive bound in Body Cubit The two Bones of the Arm to wit The lesser above called Radius reaching from the Shoulder to the Elbow and larger below called Ulna reaching from the Elbow to the Wrist Dentition Breeding of Teeth Diaphoreticks Medicines that dissolve and send forth Humours by Transpiration or breathing through the Pores that is to say such as cause or procure Sweat Digestives Medicines that concoct digest or prepare the Humours to be corrected or evacuated Diureticks Medicines that provoke Urine or cause to piss often Dolour Grief Pain or Ache. Dose A quantity of Physick to be given at one time Edulcorated Sweetned or made sweet with Sugar Honey and the like Emeticks Medicines causing a Vomit called also Vomitories Empiticks Quacks Post-doctors or Mountebanks Enervation A weakning or enfeebling Epispastic Attractive or Drawing Fasciation Swathing Fonticles or Fontinels Issues Friction A rubbing of the Parts Glandules Kernels or soft spungy Substances in the Body appointed to receive excrementitious humours Hypnoticks Medicines that procure or conciliate Sleep Hypochondria That part of the Belly and Sides under the shorts Ribs Hypothesis The Cause Ground or Supposition whereon we rely in the framing of an Argument Intercostal Muscels Muscles placed between the Ribs in that form as in Fig. 10. Intercostal Nerves The ninth or last Pair of Nerves so called because it marches down by the Roots of the Ribs and betwixt every Rib it receives a Branch from the Spinal Marrow Jugular Veins Certain Veins in the Neck so called Laxative Loosening Liniment A soft Ointment Ligature Bandage or Swathing of any I art Medicament A Medicine Mesenterium The Mesentery It is a membranous Part situate in the middle of the lower Belly serving not only for conveying some Vessels to the Intestines and others from them but also it ties most of the Guts together so artificially that for all their manifold Windings they are not entangled and confounded The Veins it contains are called the Mesaraick Veins Muscle Is a dissimilar Part to wit whose Portions are neither of the same Substance nor the same Denomination for it is compos'd of Flesh Nervous Fibres and a Tendon and the proper Instrument of Voluntary Motion Nerve It is a simple Spermatical part called a Sinew Nervous Liquor It is the Nutritious Juice of the Nerves Nutriment or Nutrition Nourishment Opiates Meaicines wherein Opium is an Ingredient and is often taken for any Medicine that procureth Sleep Parenchyma A fleshly Substance and chiefly of the Liver Spleen and Lights Peritonaeum The inmost membranous Coat of the Belly Phlebotomy Breathing of a Vein or Blood-letting Phthisis or Phthisick It is properly a withering away of the whole Body arising from an Ulcer or other ill Formation of the Lungs Dr. Willis Pleura A thin Membrane that investeth the Ribs on both sides Prognostick A fore knowledge or understanding of the future State of a Disease founded on the due consideration of the present State Psoas Two great Muscles sited in the inward part of the Loyns Purulent Mattery or foul Corruption Respiration An Action whereby the Air is received in and driven forth of the Lungs called Breathing Scarification A cutting or Lancing Serositv Moisture Specifics Remedies proper to any one peculiar Disease Spine The Back-bone Spinalis Medulla The Pith of the Back-bone called the Spinal Marrow Sternum The Breast-bone Strumae and Strumous Swellings Hard Kernels or Swellings Tibia The Bone of the Leg called the Shank or Shin-bone Veneral-Evil The French-Pox or Modish Disease Ventricle The Stomach Vertebrae of the Neck The 7 Bones of the Neck behind the lowermost whereof is joyned to the uppermost Vertebrae of the Back which are in number 12. Vesicatories Medicines that raise Blisters Viscera The Bowels to wit The Heart Liver and Lungs Ung. è Succ. aperitivis An Ointment of Opening Juices The Index or Table of the CONTENTS THE Proëme Pag. 1 CHAP. I. Of the time when and place where the Disease Rhachitis had it's first Rise and who are most subject thereto Pag. 3 CHAP. II. Of the Signs or Symptoms of the Disease Pag. 4 CHAP. III. Of the Cause of the Disease That it consisteth not in the naughtiness of the Blood nor in the deprav'd Constitution of the Parts Pag. 8 CHAP. IV. That the Nerves as well as the Blood do help to nourish and this Disease doth peculiarly depend upon the Defect of the Nervous Influx Pag. 11 CHAP. V. The Definition or Description of the Rhachitis together with the Cause thereof Wherein is shewed that it proceeds not from the faultiness of the Brain but from the Obstruction of the Spinalis Medulla Pag. 14 CHAP. VI. The Reasons of the Symptoms and first of the too great augmentation of the Head Pag. 17 CHAP. VII Of the Swelling or puffing up of the Abdomen Pag. 18 CHAP. VIII Of Strumous Glandules or hard Kernels Pag. 20 CHAP. IX Of the Crookedness of the Bones Dr. Glisson's Opinion touching the same is set down Pag. 24 CHAP. X. The Author's Opinion c. Pag. 28 CHAP. XI Why the Breast grows straight or narrow and acuminated Pag. 38 CHAP. XII Of the Asthma Pursiness or shortness of Breath Pag. 41 CHAP. XIII From what Cause the Imbecillity of the Body doth arise Pag. 42 CHAP. XIV Why Elderly Persons are not molested with this Disease Pag. 44 CHAP. XV. The Prognostick of the Disease Pag. 46 CHAP. XVI The Method of Curing Pag. 49 CHAP. XVII The Use of Clysters and some Forms thereof Pag. 51 CHAP. XVIII The Use of Emetics or Vomitory Medicines and Forms thereof Pag. 55 CHAP. XIX Some Examples of Catharticks or Purging Medicines Pag. 57 CHAP. XX. Chirurgical Remedies Pag. 63 CHAP. XXI Specific Alteratives Pag. 67 CHAP. XXII Chymical Specifics also of Sweating and Bathing Pag. 78 CHAP. XXIII Of Remedies that correct the Symptoms Pag. 84 In the Appendix Of Medical Weights Pag. 1 Of Measures Pag. 12