sign of old Age. Aorta or the great Arterie is a Vessel which proceeds from the left Ventricle of the Heart consisting of four Tunics a Nerveous Glandulous Muscular and Membrancous or Internal one it beats continually and distributes Blood into the whole Body for nourishment The branches which creep from the Heart to the Brain are called Carotites those which run laterally towards the Arms are called Humerar is as the Trunc of it discends the Branches extend themselves towards the Bowels and going further on to the Thighs and Feet it ends Apagma is the thrusting of a Bone or other part out of its proper place Apanthismus is the Obliteration of a part in the Body so that it can be no more found as it often happens to a little Arterious Pipe about the Heart Apathia is an utter want of Passions Apepsia is when the Stomach has no Concoction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Crude Wheals or Knobs in the Body not yet ripe Aperientia opening things are those which consisting of sharp small Particles penetrate the Body profoundly and by attenuating and expelling the more crass and gross open the Pores and Passages of the Body and its Vessels Aperistatos is a hollow Ulcer Aphoeresis is a part of Chyrurgery so called which teaches to take away superfluities Aphonia is want of Voice Aphorismus is a short determinative sentence Aphrodisius morbus the same with Lues Venerea Aphthae are Wheals or Pimples about the Internal parts of the Mouth as also about the Ventricle and Guts which when they come to be ripe fall off by piece-meal and are often accompanied with a Fever in those of riper Years In new-born Children I believe it arises from some Impurities which the Mass of Blood contracts in the Mothers Womb for the Blood for want of Eventilation there being more impure presently after the birth of the Faetus begins to flourish and refine Celsus's Aphthae are otherwise described but says He There are extream dangerous Ulcers in Children which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for they often kill them There is not the same danger in Men and Women These Ulcers begin in the Gums then by little and little spread over the Palate and the whole Mouth and then at last descend to the Epiglottis or cover of the Wind pipe and the upper part of the Throat which being once Infected the Child hardly recovers Apnaea is a suppression of Respiration either wholly or at least to Sense Apochylisma called Succago Robub and Rob is the boiling and thickning of any juice with Sugar and Honey into a kind of a hard consistence Apocope is the cutting off of a part Apocrusticum is any thing that helps by vertue of binding and repelling Apodacryticum is a Medicine that provokes Tears Apolepsis is the interception of Blood and Animal Spirits Apomeli is Oxymel or a Decoction of Honey and Vinegar Aponeurosis is the end tail or string of Muscles it is called also a Tendon Chyrurgeons take it falsly for a Nerve Apoflegmatica See Apophlegmatismus Apoflegmatismus Commansum some Physicians call it in Barbarous Language Masticatorium it is a Medicine which being kept in the Mouth and often also chewed draws forth Pituitous Humors which are excited at the Mouth made of the Root of bastard Pellitory Salt Holly Mastich Wax c. when it is used in this solid Form it is called Masticatorium it is used also in a Liquid Form and is of the Nature of a Gargarism made up of Cephalics and attenuating Ingredients boiled and prepared Apophthora is an Abortion or the Birth of a Faetus before its due time Apophysis Probole Echphysis Processus Productio Projectura Protuberantia is a part of a Bone that is not contiguous as an Epiphysis is but continuous with the Bone and stretching it self beyond a plain surface Apoplecta is the Jugular Vein which the Ancients falsly called the Soporalis or Sleepy Vein Apoplexia Attonitus stupor Sideratio and Morbus attonitus is a profound Sleep wherein the Patient being vehemently shaken tossed and pricked yet perceives nothing nor affords any sign of Action accompanied with a difficulty of Respiration for the most part and sometimes with none at all it arises frequently from viscous Blood which obstructs the least Pores of the Brain or from Blood Extravasated about the Basis of the Brain which oppresses and straitens the Carotidal Arteries or the Brain Aporrhoae are Vapours and Sulphureous Effluviums which exhale through the pores of the body and other breathing holes Apositia is a loathing of Meat Apospasma is when the unity of Organical compounded parts is dissolved and those things which were of different natures yet naturally compacted together are disjoyned by the Rupture of those Ligaments and little Fibrous Threads or Filments which held them together as when the Skin is separated from a Membrane a Membrane from a Muscle one Muscle from another and in short any one part from another which naturally adhered to it Apostasis see Apostema Apostema which Pliny calls Apostasis Hippocrates Metastasis and Celsus Abscessus is an Exulceration left after a Crisis but Apostasis and Metastasis sometimes differ in this That the former is meant of an Acurate Crisis the later of the translation of a Disease from one part to another Aposurma is a shaving away of the Skin or Bone Apotherapia is a Cure or Remedy also an Exercitation which both Purges the Excrements and secures from Weariness Apothermus the same with Apochilysma Apozema the Apothecaries call it a Decoction is a Decoction of Roots Woods Barks Herbs Flowers Fruits Seeds c. which is boiled down commonly to Twelve Fifteen or Twenty Ounces It is either Purging Loosning Altering or Drying Cephalic for the Head Stomachic Diuretic Splenetic or Hepatic good for the Liver Appetitus alimentarius or Hunger is a certain Constitution of the Phansie arising from the Motion of a Nerve of the par vagum and the Intercostal which for want of Nourishment is moved inordinately in the Stomach whereby we are impell'd for Animal Spirits to those Motions of our Members which are most conducive to the procuring of Nourishment It is occasioned in as much as the Animal Spirits being any way excited about the middle of the Brain shoot thence towards the body of the Nerves or it may be thus defin'd appetitus alimentarius is an incitement to seek Nourishment proceeding from an acid Humor which arises from a ferment in the Stomach with which the Nerves being vellicated they communicate the sense of want of Nourishment to the Brain which want the Brain naturally judges ought to be supplied Apsychia is a Deliquium of the Mind Aptystus is want of Spittle so that a Man cannot spit Apyrexia is an intermission or cooling of Fevers the cause of it is that all the Morbific Matter is spent in one Fit and it intermits till new come and begin to swell and ferment as the other Aqua distillata distilled Water is such as is
Liver Pancreas c. Canaliculus Arteriosus is a Vessel betwixt that Arterious Veins of the Lungs and the great Artery in Faetus's for 't is obliterated in Adult persons its use in Faetus's is that the Blood may be discharged by this Ductus out of the Arterious Vein into the great Artery because that the Blood is not accended in their Lungs for want of Respiration in the Womb. Cancer see Carcinoma Canina appetentia see Cynodes orexis Canina rabies the same that Hydrophobia Canini dentes the same with Cynodontes Canities is a hoariness of the Head before the usual time it is twofold the one is according to the ordinary course of Nature the other is ill and as Aristotle calls it Diseased Canna major the same with tibia Canna minor the same that Fibulae os Canthus or hircus is the angle or corner of the Eye which is either the greater or the Internal or the less or External Capreolus auris see Helix Capsulae artrabilariae or Renes succenturiati are Glandulous Bodies placed above the Reins their use is to receive the Watery Substance called Lympha into their Cavities wherewith the Blood in its return from the Reins being thicker and much destitute of Serum may be diluted and circulate more fluidly Capsula cordis see Pericardium Capsula communis which Glisson has observed in the Liver is nothing but a Membrane which proceeds from the Peritonaeum which includes both the Porus bilarius and the Vena porta or great Vein in the Liver Capsulae seminales are the Extreme Cavities of the Vessels which convey the Seed dilated like little Coffers which by two small holes emit the Seed received from the Testicles into the little seminary Bladders that it may be either preserved there against the time of Coition or be reduced into the Blood by the Lymphatic Vessels Caput mortuum is that thick dry matter which remains after the Distillation of Minerals especially but most commonly it denotes that which remains of Vitriol Caput purgium the same with Errhinum Carbo see Anthrax Carbunculus the same with Anthrax Carcinodes is a Tumor like a Cancer Carcinoma Carcinus or Cancer is a Tumor that arises from a Salino-sulphureous and sharp Blood it is round hard livid painful at the beginning as big as a Pea but afterwards 't is surrounded with great swelling Veins which resemble the Feet of a Crab though not always Carcinus see in Carcinoma Cardia is the Heart or Principle Muscle ordained for the Circulating of the Blood Cardiaca is a Suffocation of the Heart from a Polypus or Coagulated Blood Cardiacum is a Medicine which as they formerly thought corroborates the Heart but it rather onely puts the Blood into a fine gentle Fermentation whereby the Spirits formerly decayed are repaired and invigorated whereupon the Blood by consequence Circulates more easily and briskly Cardialgia and Cardiogmos is a gnawing or contraction of the Nerve called par vagum and the Intercostal implanted in the Stomach proceeding from a pungent vellicating Matter in the Ventricle so that the heart being straitned and contracted by consent with the Stomach occasions a swooning away Cardiogmos the same that Cardialgia Caries is the corruption of a bone from the continual Afflux of vitious humors or from their Acrimony and Malignity or from an occult quality or from a bruise that some way affects the bone or from sharp Medicines Caro flesh is a similar Fibrous part bloody soft thick together with the bones the prop of the body and what covers the Spermatic parts and it is five-fold Musculous Fistulous or Fibrous as in the Muscles and the Heart Parâ—nchymous as the Lungs Liver Spleen Viscerous as the Guts Glandulous as the Pancreas the Glandules of the Breasts those for Spitting c. Spurious as the Gums Lips the Nut of the Yard c. Caro also signifies that soft pappy substance of succulent Fruits which we call the Pulp as the Pulp or Flesh of a Quince c. Carotidis arteria is either External or Internal the External which arises near the Heart divides it self into two branches the outermost whereof is variously distributed to the Jaws the Face the top of the Head and behind the Ears but the other with a sort of Mechanical Preparation for its Reception passes through the Os cuneiforme for Nature has dug a peculiar Channel in both sides of it wherein this Artery for its greater security is clothed with a new Adventitious and thicker Tunic and there representing the Figure of an S. it goes double out of its Channel of bone puts off its borrowed Coat and tends toward the Brain with its charge of Blood ascending therefore about the Ocular Nerve it spreads it self towards the sides than to the foremost part of the Brain betwixt the passage of the Olfactory Nerves Lastly it tends backward and taking leave of the Brain near the Medulla Oblongata and the Spinal Marrow waters it with its blood as far down as the Os Sacrum They formerly called this the Vertebral or Internal Arterie because they thought it ascended and joyned with the Carotidal in the Brain which yet is otherwise found by Experience according to the acurate Dr. Willis they are called Soporales or Carotides in as much as if they be tied they immediately incline the person to sleep but the Ancients mistook when they ascribed Natural Sleep to them Carpia is a Tent that is put into a Wound or Ulcer to cleanse it Carus is a Sleep wherein the person affected being pulled pinched and called scarce shews any sign of either hearing or feeling it is without a Feaver greater than a Lethargy and less than an Apoplexy It proceeds from an obstruction or compression of the Pores and Passages which go towards the middle of the Brain and are placed at least in the utmost Extremity of the Corpus Callosum Carpus commonly Brachiale the first part of the Palm of the Hand Hesichius calls it that part of the Arm which is betwixt the lowermost part of the Cubit and the Hand the Wrist it consists of Eight small bones with which the Cubit is joyned to the hand Cartilago is a white part dryer and harder than a Ligament and softer than a Bone it is said to be Similar and Spermatic but falsly for 't is no more made of Seed than any other parts it renders Articulation more easie and defends several parts from injuries from abroad Carunculae Myrtiformes are the wrinklings of the Orifice of a Woman's Vagina or Membranous inequalities not to be reckoned in any certain number which in Women with Child and after Child birth are so obliterated that they are altogether imperceptible there are for the most part four of them Carunculae oculi are Glandules placed at each greater corner of the Eye which separate Moisture for moistning the Eyes the same with Tears which afterwards by the Puncta Lachrymalia placed in the bone of the Nose are discharged into the Nostrils Carunculae
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
especially the Hip. Cele is a tumor in any part Cellulae intestini coli the little Cavities of the Gut Colon are where the Excrements lodge some while that they may refresh some adjacent parts with their Heat and digest and ferment any occurring crudities Cementium is a Powder by whose means Cementatory Calcination is performed or as others say it is an acute piercing Mineral Matter wherewith Metals being strewed are Reverberated to cement and it is either simple or mixt and either in form of a Powder or a Confection Cenchrias is a sort of spreading Inflamation which we call Wild-fire called Herpes Miliaris from the resemblance it bears to the Seed of the small Grain called Millet or Hyrse Ceneangia is an Evacution of the Vessels by opening a Vein 1. It is expedient in a Plethora to free Nature from too great a load 2. 'T is expedient to draw back the blood when it rushes too plentifully towards any one part 3. To divert the blood from one part to another though it be no way lodg'd there nor be Extravasated 4. To Ventilate and Cool the Blood in Burning and in Putrid Fevers Centrum is the middle of a Body not taken Mathematically but Physically and that they say is the Heart from which as from a Center the blood continually Circulates round the most distant parts of the body Cephalaea is an obstinate Head-ach Cephalalgia is an Head-ach that proceeds from Intemperance or ill Confirmation of the Parts Cephalartica are Medicines which purge the Head Cephalica are Spirituous and Volatile Medicines used in the Distempers of the Head Also the outermost Vein in the Arm is called Cephalica because it uses to be opened in Diseases of the Head Cephalopharyngaei signifies the first pair of Muscles of the upper part of the Gullet which proceed from beside the Head and Neck and are spread more largely upon the Tunic of the Gullet Cephalophonia is a pain or heaviness in the Head Ceraea are the Horns of the Womb in Bruits wherein Generation is performed Ceratium the same with Siliqua Ceratoglossum is the proper pair of Muscles belonging to the Tongue proceeding from the horns of the Bone called Hyoides and joyned to the sides of the Tongue their use is to move the Tongue straight downwards towards the inward parts when they act joyntly but if either the one or the other be contracted singly they move it to the right or left side Ceratodes the same with Cornea Tunica Ceratomalagma is a softening Composition prepared of Wax and other ingredients Ceratum is a Medicine applyed outwardly made of Wax Oils and sometimes Dust mixed thicker than an Ointment and softer than a Plaister Cerchnos is a certain Asperity of the Larynx which is felt as it were like so many Juniper-berries whence proceeds a little dry Cough Cercis is the Second Bone of the Cubit called Radius because it is like the spoke of a Wheel Cerea the same with Achor Cerebellum is the hinder part of the Brain consisting like the Brain it self of an Ashie or Barkie Substance and a white Marrowie Substance wherein the Animal Spirits which perform Involuntary and meer Natural Actions are Generated In Man but not so in Beasts it seems to consist of a great many thin Plates that lay upon one another Cerebrum the Brain is strictly taken for the foremost part of the Substance which is within the Skull and it is a Substance of a peculiar sort to it self outwardly it is covered with the Skin called Pia Mater it is wrought with many turnings and windings its Exterior Substance is Ashie wherein the Animal Spirits are Generated the Interiour is white which receives the Animal Spirits from the former and discharges them by the Corpus Callosum and the Medulla Oblongata into the Nerves upon which voluntary actions do chiefly depend Likewise the Brain is the subject of Imagination Judgment Memory and Reminiscence for the Idaea's or Species of things being received from the Organs of the External Senses are carried to the common Sensory or the beginning of the Oblong-marrow and then by the Corpora striata and the Corpus callosum there the judgement and imagination are formed but the Seat of the Memory is said to be in the Ashie Barkie Substance and if the Idea's after some time chance to be called for out of the place of the Memory then it is properly said to be Reminiscence or Remembring Sleep is likewise transacted in the Brain concerning which see in its proper place Cerelaeum is an Ointment made of Wax and Oyl Cerevisia medicata Physick-Drink is wherein Medicines proper for any Diseases have been infused Ceria the same with Favus Cerio the same with Favus Cerotum the same with Ceratum Cerumina are the filth of the Ear which seems to be sweat out from the Cartilages others think it comes from the Glandules which border upon the Ears it consists of abundance of salt and adult Sulphur which gives it its bitterness it is good to hinder Dust Motes or little Animals from getting into the Ear. Chalastica are Medicines of a moistning Quality which Relax the parts that are too hard bound up Chalazia is a little swelling in the Eye lids like a Hail-stone Chalazae every Egg has two of them one in the Obtuse and the other in the Acute end there 's more of them in the White yea they stick closer to the Yolk and are fastned to its Membrane They are something long bodies more Concrete than the White and whiter knotty have some sort of Light as Hail whence they have their name for each Chalaza consists as it were of so many Hail-stones separated from each other by that White one of them is bigger than the other and farther from the Yolk is extended towards the Obtuse-end of the Egg the other is less and extends it self from the Yolk towards the Acute-end of the Egg. The greater is made up of two or three Knots like so many Hail-stones which are moderately distant from each other the less in order succeeds the greater It is also a Disease incident to Swine Chalinos Aurelian says it is the Ultimate Angle and joyning of the Mouth or that part of the Cheeks which adjoyns upon the Lips Character is a Mystical Sign or Figure which signifies or denotes something amongst Chymists Charta Virginia the same with Amnios Cheimetlon the same that Pernio Cheironium the same that Cacoethes Chemia the same that Chimia Chemosis is the Tumor of the Albuginious Tunic that makes the black of the Eye appear Concave Chimetlon the same that Pernio Chiragra is a sort of Gout in the Hands arising from the Effervescence of Acid Particles and fixt Salt Chiromantia is a Divination from inspecting the hand when men Predict futurities from the Lineaments thereof not at all necessary to a Physitian since it is rather a Diabolical and deceitful art Chirones the same with Sirones Chyronia is a great Ulcer and of difficult Cure
and Summer and chiefly in those who have very thin Skins but about Winter they disappear again they are about as big as Flea-bites and often disfigure the whole face Ephemera or Diaria is a continued Fever which lasts but a day arising from a Commotion and Accension of the fine parts of the Blood if it last above a day it is called Synochus Simplex Ephialtes or Incubus the Night-mare is a depraved Imagination whereby people asleep fancie that their Wind-pipe is oppressed by some superincumbent body that their breath is stop'd and they are excited to Venerie this proceeds from a compression of the Cerebellum when the Ventricles are too full of moisture or if those who are thus Affected lye upon their backs then the whole bulk of the Brain lies upon the Cerebellum whereupon all the Pores and Passages being stopped by so much weight the Spirits are hindred from Influencing the Nerves called par vagum and the Intercostal Nerve which being thus destitute of Spirits the Lungs are oppressed and flag and cannot perform their Office Ephidrosis is Sweating Ephippium or Sella Equina or Tursica is part of the Bone Sphenoides wherein the Pituitarie Glandulae is placed Epiala is a continued Fever wherein the Patient feels both Heat and Cold at once Epialtes the same with Ephialtes Epicarpium is a Medicine applyed outwardly like a Plaister or a Cataplasme applied to the Pulse or Wrist of the hand to drive away intermitting Feavers Epicauma is a Crustie Ulcer that sometimes happens to the black of the Eye Epicerastica are Medicines which obtund and temperate sharp Humours Epicheiresis the same with Encheiresis Epicolicae regiones or Laterales or Lumbares Glisson calls that part Epicolica which lyes upon the parts of the Gut Colon whence it has its Name Epicrasis is a gradual Evacuation of ill Humors in the Bood Epicrisis is a judging of a Disease Epicrusis is a percussion of the soft parts with light Ferula's an usual Custome amongst the Japaneses Epicyema is a Superfaetation which rarely happens Epidemius is a common Disease proceeding from a common Cause spreading it self over divers Countries at divers times such are the Plague Malignant Fevers c. the reason is that the Nitre of the Air with other particles that are in it acquire the Vertue of an Arcenic or a Sublimate as we see in making Sublimates for the Particles of which that consists if they be given severally are not so destructive but taken together they make a deadly Poyson Epidermis see Cuticula Epedesis is the Injection of a Ligament to stop the Blood Epidesmus is a tying of Swathes underneath Epididymis or Paristata in Latin Supergeminalis and it is a winding Vessel making a Figure like the winding of crooked Vessels that are swoln with ill Blood and is affixed to the back of the Testicles it s greater Globe is annexed to the Testicles consisting of one Vessel or Passage above five Ells long the lesser Globe is connected to the Vessel that carries the Seed Epigastrium is the fore-part of the lowermost Belly whose upper part is called Hypochondrium the middle part Umbilicalis and the lowermost Hypogastrium Epigennema is that which happens to a Disease like a Symptome also the order of parts in Generation which is done successively Epiginesis the same that Epiginema Epiglottis is the Fifth Cartilage of the Larynx the cover of the opening of the Wind-pipe it is also called Sublinguium Epigonatis is the Whirl-bone of the Knee Epilepsia or Morbus Caducus because that the persons Affected fall down on a sudden or Herculeus because it is hard to be cured also Lues Deifica Sonticus Comitialis Sacer c. and it is an Interpolated Convulsion of the whole body which hurts all Animal-Actions proceeding from an Explosion of Animal Spirits in the Brain whereby the persons Affected are suddenly cast upon the ground This Explosion arises either from an irritation or pricking in the Spirits or when something Heterogeneous is intermixed with the Animal Spirits Epilogismus is the Vote of Physitians Epinyctides are Pimples that send forth matter and are painful especially in the Night Epiparoxismus is when a Patient endures more Fits in a Fever than usual which happens in inordinate Fevers Epiphaenomena are signs which appear afterwards in Diseases Epiphisis Appendix Adnascentia Additamentum signifie one Bone that grows to another by simple and immediate Contiguity though not with so even a Surface but with some kind of ingress of one Bone into the Cavitie of the other like that Coarticulation wherewith the Bones form the Joynts but without any Motion Epiplasma the same with Cataplasma Epiplocele is a Rupture when the Cavile falls into the outward Skin of the Cods Epiplocomistae are fat big-bellied Men who have fat huge Cawls which Writers say has sometimes hindred Conception in Women and therefore they are named Cawl-bearers Epiplomphalum is a Navel Rupture when it juts out by reason of a swoln Cawl that is fallen down Epiploon Omentum or Reticula the Cawl is a cover spread over the Intestines arising from the bottom of the Ventricle and the back of the Gut Colon to wit from the doubling of the Peritonaeum it is shaped like a Net or a Fowlers Bag and abounds with several Sanguinary Vessels It s use is to cherish the Stomach and the Guts with its fat Episarcidium the same with Anasarca Episemasia is the very time that a Disease first seizes a Person and is properly called Significatio Epision is the place of the Secret Parts or Aqualiculus Episphaerid are windings and turnings in the outer substance of the Brain that the Sanguiferous Vessels may pass more securely Epispastica the same with Attrahentia Epistomia are the utmost gapings and meetings of Vessels Epistropheus or Cardo is the second Vertebre of the Neck so called from turning because the Head turns upon it Epithema is a Medicine applyed outwardly to the more Noble parts of the body especially to the Heart and Liver Epneumatosis the same that Expiratio Epomis is the upper part of the Shoulder called also Acronium Epomphalum is a Plaister or any such thing applyed to the Protuberances of the Navel Epsema is a Decoction of new Wine till half be boyled away Epulis is an Excrescence in the Gums which reaches the farthest Axel-Teeth so that it hinders the opening of the Mouth Epulotica the same with Cicatrizantia Erodentia are Medicines which gnaw and prey upon the Flesh with their Acute Particles Erpes see Herpes Errhinum barbarously called Nasale is a Medicine which being made like a Pyramid is put up the Nostrils and cleanses the Brain of Viscous Humours especially without sneezing and it is either Liquid Soft or Solid The Liquid is made of the juices of Cephalic cleansing Herbs Extracted by Wine or other Liquor to which Spirit of Wine is sometimes added Or of a Decoction of-fit Simples to which are added sometimes Juices Honey Syrup and Powders too The soft is made
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
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
cava above the Heart are called Jugular Veins which go towards the Head they which go towards the Arms are called Axillary that about the Heart Coronary in the Lungs Pulmonary in the Liver Hepatick or Liver-Vein in the Diaphragme Phrenica in the Thighs Crural in the Reins Emulgent and so from its various Ramification it is variously denominated Vena portae is only in the Abdomen and extends its Roots to the Liver Spleen Ventricle Mesentery Intestines Pancreas Cawl c. The Office of the Vena cava and portae is to convey the Blood that is more than what seryes for Nourishment to the Liver or Heart or Lungs Venae Lymphaticae the Lymphatick Veins receive the Lympha from the conglobated Glandules and discharge themselves either into the Sanguinary Veins or into the Receptacle of the Chyle Venae lacteae see Vasa lactea Venae sectio is the Opening of a Vein which is either for Evacuation or to derive the Blood to another part c. In Bleeding respect must always be had to the Strength of the Person There never ought to be taken away above a Pound but the better way is to take away first six or eight Ounces and if Occasion require to repeat the Operation A Vein is to be cut according to the length of the Fibres and not Across or Traverse Veneris OEstrum the same that Clitoris Venter infimus see Hypogastrium Ventosa see Cucurbitula Ventres see Cavitates Ventriculus the Stomach is a membranous Bowel in the Abdomen under the Diaphragme betwixt the Liver and the Spleen consisting of four Tunicks a nervous fibrous glandulous and membranous one It has two Orifices one on the Right-hand called Pylorus or Janitor whereat the Meat is sent out into the Guts another on the Left-hand at which the Meat enters Its Office is to concoct or ferment the Meat it is called also Stomachus and Aqualiculus Ventriculi cerebri the Ventricles of the Brain are four the Use of them is to receive the serous Humours and to bring them by the Pelvis to the Pituitary Glandule or into the Processus mammillares by the Os cribriforme to the Nostrils They are nothing but Complications of the Brain which happened there as 't were by accident Ventriculi cordis the Ventricles of the Heart are two the first or Right Ventricle receives the Blood from the Vena cava and sends it to the Lungs the Left receives the Blood from the Lungs and sends it through the whole Body by the Arteria Aorta In the Systole or Contraction of the Ventricles the Blood is sent out In the Diastole or Dilatation it is let into the Heart Yet others explain it on the contrary because they understand not Greek Vermes see Lumbrici Vermiformis processus is the Prominence of the Cerebellum so called from its shape Vertebra see Spondylus Vertigo see Scotomia Verrucae Warts are a sort of Tubercula they are called also Porri because if you look into the tops of them they seem to resemble the Capillaments or little Threds of Onyons They are an hard high callous little Tuberculum or Swelling which break out of the Skin and breed in any part of the Body Vertex the Crown of the Head is the gibbous middle part of the fore and back part of the Head Vesica the Bladder is an hollow membranaceous Part wherein any Liquor that is to be excerned is contained as the Bladder that contains the Urine the Gall the Seed Vesica destillatoria is a Brazen or Copper Vessel which contains any thing that is to be destilled Vesicatoria are Medicines which act upon and rarify the Spirits and serous Particles gather them betwixt the Skin and Cuticula the thin fine Skin and consequently separate them and raise little Bladers full of serous Matter Vesicula fellis see Folliculus fellis Vespertilionum alae Bats Wings are two broad membranous Ligaments on each side one wherewith the bottom of the Womb is loosely tied to the Bones of the Flank Aretaeus likens them to Bats-wings Veternus see Lethargus Vibex see Enchymoma Victus ratio is a way Living whereby Health is preserved and Diseases repelled by things convenient It consists in the Use of things called non Naturales not natural which see in their place and it is in Diseases threefold thick moderate thin the thin is again either simply thin more thin or the thinnest of all Vigilia Waking is an Agitation and Expansion of animal Spirits in the Pores of the Brain whereby the Motions of Objects are easily represented to the common Sensory by the external Organs which Spirits if they be too much expanded and agitated they cause an obstinate long Wakening Vigor Morbi see Acme Vinum Cos is a Wine of good Colour Smell and Taste Vinum Hypocraticum is a Wine wherein Sugar and Spices have been infused and is afterwards strained through a Bag which they call Manica Hypocratis which see Vinum Medicatum is a Wine wherein Medicines have been infused for the use of sick People Virga see Penis Virginale claustrum see Hymen Viscera are Organs contained in the three great Cavities of the Body They are called also Exta and Interranea Visus Sight is a Sence whereby Light and Colours are perceived from the Motion of subtile Matter upon the Tunica retina of the Eye Vitalis facultas the Vital Faculty is an Action whereby a Man lives which is performed whether we design it or no such are the Motions of the Heart Respiration Nutrition c. It depends chiefly upon the Cerebellum It is the same with Natural Faculty tho the Ancients distinguished them placing the Natural in the Liver and the vital in the Heart Vitalis Indicatio is a way whereby Strength and Vigor are continually renewed and preserved Vitiligo a sort of Leprosy there are Three kinds of them Alphus where the Colour is white something rough and not continued like so many Drops here and there but sometimes it spreads broader and with some Intermissions Melas differs in Colour because it is black and like a Shade in the rest they agree Leuce has something like Alphus but it is whiter and descends deeper and in it the Hairs are white and like Down All these spread but in some quicker in others slower Vitreus Humor see Humores Oculi Vlceratio see Exulceratio Vlcus an Uucer is a Solution of the Continuum proceeding from a consuming Matter in the soft parts of the Body and attended with a Diminution of Magnitude Vlna or Focile majus is the greater Bone betwixt the Arm and the Wrist which is jointed upward with the Shoulder by Ginglimus which see and therefore it has there both Processes and Cavities Two oblong Processes and as it were triangular and rugged that the Ligaments may knit it strongly The fore-most and upper-most is less and goes into the Cavity of the Shoulder The backward Process is thicker and larger ends in an obtuse Angle and enters the hinder Cavity of
as Seeds Almonds Cinnamon c. crusted over with dry Sugar Confectio is a Composition of Powders Gums Sugar Honey Syrups c. made up into one Substance and it is Twofold either dry as Lozenges c. or moist as Opiates Preserves Conserves and all sorts of Antidotes Conformatio is an Essential part of Health or Sickness and therefore is either good or bad it consists in these Six following Particulars Number Magnitude Figure Cavitie Surface and Scituation Congius or Choa is a Measure that contains Six Sectaries Conjunctiva tunica the same with Adnata Conoides the same with Conarium Consensus a Disease by Consent is when one Disease is caused by another as Respiration is hindred by a Pleurisie it is likewise the correspondence of different parts by the mutual and common Ligaments of both to wit Nerves and Tendons Conserva a Conserve is a Composition of Flowers or Herbs beat together to every pound whereof if they be dry are added three pounds of Sugar if moister two pounds so that they may be kept several years Consolidantia are those things which cleansing with a moderate heat and force by taking Corruption out of Wounds and preserving the temperature of the parts cause the Nourishment to be fitly applyed to the part Affected Contagium is a Poison which from one Subject is propagated to another which happens two manner of ways either at a distance by the Air or by simple Contact Contemplabiles dies see Critici dies Continens causa is the Internal Cause of a Disease with the matter of it which ariseth elsewhere which is so near a kin to the Disease that if it be the Disease is too and if it be taken away the Disease follows As the Stone which proceeds from ill Humors arising from ill qualities in Meats and Drinks Obstructs the Ureters Continens febris is a Fever that continues without any Intermission and it is Twofold either Primarie or Secundarie the former proceeds from a too great Exaltation of Sulphur as in a burning Fever a Pleurisie Quinzie c. the latter which is also called Symtomatica is caused by Wounds Ulcers c. as in a Consumption Wounds in the Head c. Continua Febris is a Fever or Ague which is continually troublesome but with some intermission and it is either Quotidian Tertian Quartane or Erratic The cause of its continuance proceeds from a too high Exaltation of Sulphur as in the former sort of Fevers but the Paroxismes or Fits proceed from that equal portion of Chyle which is continually added to the Blood Contraindicatio is an Indication which hinders that to be done which the first Indication suggested and it is either Contra indicans which hinders of it self or Correpugnance which is Secundarily Repugnant and in Conjunction with other Indications Contusio ossis a bruising of a Bone is when a Bone is so hurt with some hard blunt Instrument that outwardly it appears whole when as inwardly it is otherwise Convulsio Convulsion is a Motion whereby the Nerves or Membranes are contracted and remitted without the Will as in the Falling-sickness Cramp c. of which in their proper place Cophosis is a Deafness Copos is a weariness of the Body when the Muscles or their Fibers rather are loaden and obstructed with such Viscous Humors that they are rendred unfit for Motion Coprocritica are Medicines which Purge away the Excrements in the Guts Cor the Heart is a Fleshy Fibrous Substance made up of several Muscles and Tendons it has two Auricles or Ears and as many Ventricles the Vena Cava or Great Vein is fastned to the right Auricle and the Pulmonarie Vein to the left the Pulmonarie Arterie is joyned to the Right Ventricle and the great Arterie to the left It is clothed with a little Membraneous Bag called the Pericardium wherewith it is joyned to the Mediastinum and the Diaphragme its Basis is upwards and Point downwards and is placed in the middle of the Chest amongst the Lobes of the Lungs It s use is onely to receive and disperse the Blood to all parts in the Body though others place I know not what Flame others a Ferment in its Ventricles which are all Fables and no way consonant to Reason as we have sufficiently Evinced in our Tract concerning The Circulation of the Blood Coracohyoides are Muscles which proceed from the Process of the Shoulder-bone called Coracoides and go on as far as the Bone Hiordes their use is to move obliquely downwards Coracoides is the Process of the Shoulder-blade in form of a Beek Cordialia are Medicines which are commonly thought to strengthen the Heart but they onely put the Blood into a fine gentle Fermentation which Corroborates and Facilitates the Motion of the Heart Cornea oculi tunica which is also called Sclerotes and Dura the hard Tunic proceeds from a skin in the Brain called Dura Menix it is pellucide forwardly that it may transmit the visible Species its sides are covered with the Albugineous tunic inwardly it contains the Aquaeous Humour Cornicularis processus see Ancyroides Cornua uteri are two lateral parts of the Womb in some Bruits as Cows Harts Sheep Goats c. yet some Authors have attributed the same parts to a Womans Womb from something which imitates them there for at the sides of the bottom of the Womb there is a sort of Protuberance on both sides where the Vasa deferentia are inserted a Womans Womb is rarely bipartite as it is in Bruits Coronalis sutura is a Cleft in the Head made like a Comb and joynes as if the Teeth of two Saws were closely compacted into one another it is placed in the upper part of the Skull from one Temple to another and is circumscribed with the bones of the Forehead and that particularly called Bregma in the middle whereof the Suture stiled Sagitalis is terminated Coronaria vasa are the Veins and Arteries which surround the Heart to Nourish it Corone is an Acute Process of the lower Jaw-bone from its likeness to the Beek of a Raven called Rostriformis in form of a Beek Corpus Callosum is the Marrowie part of the Brain whose Complication makes the foremost Ventricle of the Brain and it is wholly Marrowie without any Membrane and is fastened on both sides to the little Tuffs of the Oblongated Marrow from which as from its rise this Medullarie Substance which overspreads the Arches of the Brain is expanded towards the hinder parts and gradually diminishes at length the Exteriour Edge of this Expanded Substance is more narrowly contracted and lower down is joyned to the Trunc of the Oblongated Marrow by the connexion of Membranes and Vessels and farther that the Connexion may be firmer there arises a Medullary Process from its former part near its little Tufts which subtending the opening of the Brain goes to the very Extremities of it with which as with two Arms folded it is united on both sides which Arms embrace the Trunc of the
slimy or pituitous Matter into the Jaws and Mouth They are called also Tonsillae Paronychia is a preternatural Swelling in the Fingers end very troublesome it rises from a sharp malign Humour which can gnaw the Tendons Nerves the Membrane about the Bone and the very Bone it self Parotides are Glandules behind the Ears also a preternatural Swelling of those Glandules Paroxysmus a Fit is part of the Period of Diseases whereby they encrease and grow worse It is either Ordinate which returns at certain times as in a Tertian Ague or Inordinate that has no certain time but comes sometimes one day sometims another as the Erratick Ague Pars a part is a Piece of the whole serving each for their proper Uses The Parts are either sensible or insensible spermatick or bloody similar or the contrary organical or inorganical principal or inservient Partus is the bringing forth of a Mature Faetus or Young in natural Births The Faetus having broken the Membranes turns his Head forward and inclining it towards the neck of the Womb strives to get forth the usual manner is after nine Months yet I have known some at Amsterdam born at seven Months who have lived to fifty or sixty Partus Caesareus is when Children are forc'd for want of Passage to be cut out Partus difficilis idem quod Dystocia Parylis is an Inflammation Rottenness or Excrescency besides the Gums Passio vid. Pathema Pastillum is a sweet Ball compos'd of sweet Dust Wax the Gum-Storax and India-Balsam with a little Goats-flower and Turpentine it serves for Swelling Patella vid. Mola Genu. Pathema is all preternatural Conturbation wherewith our Body is molested Patheticus is the Nerve of the fourth pair within the Scull as Dr. Willis saith tho Fallopius reckons it one of the eighth pair Pathognomonicum is a proper separable Sign which agrees only to such a thing and to all of that kind and tells the Essence of its Subject and also lasts from the beginning to the â—nd as in a true Plurisy there 's always a continual Fever hard Breathing and Stitches and a Cough Pathologia is a part of Physick that teacheth us the preternatural Constitution of a Man's Body Pathos vid. Pathema Pectoralia pectoral Medicines are such as either by attenuating or thinking or allaying render the Matter which causes coughing fit to be expectorated Pectus is the fore-most part of the Thorax reaching from the Neck-bone down to the Midriff Pedicularis Morbus vid. Phthiziasis Pedium vid. Tarsus Pelicanatio Chymica vid. Circulatio Chymica Pelidnus is a black and blew Colour in the Face frequent in Melancholick Men. Pelvis is the place at the bottom of the Belly wherein the Bladder and Womb are contain'd Pelvis Aurium vid. Cochlea Pelvis Cerebrs vid. Choana Pelvis Renum is a membranous Vessel or Receptacle in either Vein which receives the Urine and pours it into the Bladder Pemphigodes Febris is a Spotted Fever some say a windy a flatulent Fever Penis is the Yard made up of two nervous Bodies the Channel Nut Skin and Foreskin c. Penis Muliebris vid. Clytoris Pepansis is a rectifying and bringing to order of the vitiated and corrupt Humours Pepasmus is a Concoction or rather a Fermentation or ripening of preternatural Humours which is twofold One tends to an end as in an Inflammation the Other hath no Fermentation as when it cannot conquer the Disease Pepasticum is a Medicine that allays and digests the Crudities Pepsis is the Concoction or Fermentation of the Humours and Meat in a Man's natural Constitution as when Meat is turn'd into Chyle and that into Blood Peracutissimus Morbus vid. Acutus M. Peracutus vid. Acutus Perfecta Crisis vid. Crisis Periamma is a Medicine which being tied about the Neck is believ'd to expel Diseases especially the Plague Periaptum vid. Periamma Pericardium is a Membrane which surrounds the whole Substance of the Heart and contains a Liquor in it to refrigerate the Heart Pericholus very Cholerick Pericranium is a Membrane which infolds the Scull Perinaeum is the ligamentous Seam betwixt the Cod and the Fundament Periodus Morborum is the space betwixt the coming of fits of Sickness in intermitting Diseases Periodus Sanguinis is a continued Circulation of the Blood through the Body which is thus The Blood is carried out of the Arteries by Fibres either of the Flesh or of the Entrails or the membranous parts to the Mouths of the greater Veins Now we say that those Fibres are terminated at the Mouths of the Veins and implanted in them as we see many other little Channels in the Veins so the Blood passing through these out of the Arteries is presently sent to the Veins that it may be carried back again to the right Ventricle of the Heart and thence by an arterious Vein to the Lungs in which after the Blood has been accended by some nitrous Particles breathed in thither by the Air it goes into the veinous Artery thence into the left Ventricle of the Heart which again empties it self into the Aorta or great Artery so that the Body may be nourished and enliven'd it goes into every part of it Periosteum is a thin Membrane that incloses immediately the Bones except a few Peripheria is the Circumference of the Body or any Entrail thereof Periphimosis vid. Phimosis Peripneumonia is an Inflammation of the Lungs accompanied with a sharp Fever hard Breathing a Cough and an heavy Pain Perisistole is the time of Rest between the Contraction and Dilatation of the Heart Peristalticus Motus is a Crawling as it were of the Entrails whereby the Excrements are voided Also the motion of the Vessels whereby Humours as Water Chyle the Blood c. ascend and descend Peristromata are the sick Mans Bed-clothes also the Tunicks about the Entrails Peritonaeum is a Membrane which cloaths the whole Abdomen on the inside and its Entrails on the outside It consists of two Tunicks Perittoma is an Excrement in the Body lest after Digestion Also the Reliques of Diseases Pernio is a preternatural Swelling caus'd by the Winter Cold especially in the Hands and Feet which at last breaks out Perona is also called Fibula because it joyns the Muscles of the Leg whence the first and second Muscle in the Leg is called Peronaeus It is the less and slenderer Bone which is fastened outwardly to the greater Bone of the Leg called Tibia Peronaeus vid. Perona Perperacutus vid. Acutus Passarium is an oblong Medicine which being made like the middle Finger is thrust up into the neck of the Womb and is good against several Diseases incident to it Pessulus the same Pessus the same Pestis the Plague is an epidemick contagious Disease arising from a poysonous and too much exalted Nitre in the Air which secretly takes a Man extinguisheth the Spirits clods the Blood deads the sound parts and is accompanied with Botches Boils and a train of other dreadful Symptomes Pestaloides is a sort of Urine which seems to have
are designed to make Compounds with So Species of Treacle are those Ingredients of which Treacle is compounded By the same Name are called the Species of ordinary Decoctions This Name is chiefly given to some Aromatick and Purging Pouders Perhaps because heretofore they were made up into Electuaries Bolus's c. Specifica Medicamenta are those Medicines which have a peculiar Virtue against some one Disease Specillum a Probe Speculum lucidum see Septum Lucidum Speculum Oculi the Apple or Pupil of the Eye see Aranea Tunica Oculi Speculum Oris see Dilatatorium Spermaticae Partes are those Arteries and Veins which bring the Blood to and convey it from the Testicles Likewise those Vessels through which the Seed passes Likewise all whitish parts of the Body which because of their whiteness were anciently thought to be made of the Seed Of this sort are Nerves Bones Membranes Grissles c. Spermatocele a Rupture caused by the Contraction of the Vessel which ejects the Seed and its falling down into the Scrotum Sphacelodes like to the Apoplexy Sphacelus is a sudden Extinction of Life and Sense in every part Sphagitides are the Jugular Veins in the Neck Sphenoeides see Sphenois Sphenois see Os Cuneiforme Sphenopharyngaeus is a pair of Muscles arising from the Sinus of the inner Wing of the Os Cuneiforme or Wedg-like Bone and going obliquely downward is extended into the sides of the Gullet it dilates the Gullet Sphincter is a Muscle that contracts the Gullet Anus Bladder c. Sphygmica is that part of Physick which treats of Pulses Sphygmus the Pulse Spina Dorsi are the hinder Prominences of the Vertebrae's Spina Ventosa is an Ulceration in which the Bones are eaten by a malignant Humor without any pain of the Periostium or Membrane that covers the Bone after that a Swelling being risen without any Pain the part affected is quite eaten out with the Ulcer from whence frequently follows a necessity of Amputation Spinalis medulla see Medulla spinalis Spiritus Spirits are reckon'd of three sorts the Animal Spirits in the Brain the Vital in the Heart the Natural in the Liver but late Authors distinguish'em only into two kinds the Animal in the Brain the Vital and Natural which are accounted the same in the Mass of Blood The Animal Spirits are a very thin Liquor which distilling from the Blood in the outward or Cortical Substance of the Brain are by the proper Ferment of the Brain exalted into Spirits and thence through the Medullar Substance of the Brain the Corpus Callosum and Medulla Oblongata are derived into the Nerves and Spinal Marrow and in them perform all the Actions of Sense and Motion The Vital or Natural Spirits are the subtilest parts of the Blood which actuate and ferment it and make it fit for Nourishment Splanchnica are Medicines proper against Diseases of the Intestines Splanchnon see Intestina Splen five Lien the Spleen is a Receptacle for the Salt and earthy Excrements of the Blood that there by the assistance of the Animal Spirits it may be volatiliz'd and returning again into the Blood may concur to its farther Fermentation The Spleen consists of a great number of little Bladders between which the Glandules are scatter'd up and down and supply the place of Veins The Spleen has likewise an Artery Nerves and Lymphatick Vessels first discovered by Fr. Ruisch It 's very like the Sole of the Foot and in Cows is exactly like a Beeves Tongue Splenia are Bolsters made of Linnen three four or five times doubled even to the thickness of the Spleen they are used upon Wounds Ulcers and Fractures The Figure is threefold according to the manner of Application viz. at length obliquely or transversely They are called also Plumaccoli and Plagulae Splenica Splenical Medicines are such as by attenuating and volatilizing the grosser parts remove the Distempers and Obstructions of the Spleen Splenii Musculi arise partly from the five lower Vertebrae's of the Neck and partly from the points of five of the upper Vertebrae's of the Thorax the Fibres of these Muscles tend obliquely and are fastned to the hinder part of the Head The Use of 'em is to draw the Head backward Spongoeidea Ossa see Cribroformia Sporadici morbi are those Diseases which different in Nature seize several People at the same time and in the same Countrey Sputum Liquor thicker than ordinary Spittle Squammosa Sutura see Lepidoides Stagma are Juices of Plants mixt together in order to Distillation Stalagma is that which is distilled from the Stagma Staltica see Sarcotica Stapes see Incus Staphyle see Cion Staphyloma is a Disease of the Eye in which the two Tunics of the Eye Cornea and Vvea being broken fall outward in the shape of a Grape Status Morbi see Acme Steatocele is a Rupture or Tumor in the Scrotum of a Fatty or Suet-like Consistence Steatoma is a preternatural Swelling which consists of a Matter almost like Suet of the same Colour throughout soft and tho not easily yielding to the touch yet suddenly returns the Fingers removed to its proper shape and bigness Stegnosis is a Constriction and stopping up of the Pores Stegnotica see Astringentia Stercus is that Excrement which is voided by Stool it consists of those parts of the Aliment and Bile which is unfit for Nourishment Sterilitas see Agonia Sternum Os the Breast-Bone is joyn'd to the Ribs in the foremost part of the Breast it consists of 3 or 4 Bones and frequently in those that are come to ripeness of Age grows into one Bone to this is joyned in the lower part of it the Cartilago Ensiformis Sternohyoides is that pair of Muscles which from the uppermost part of the Breast-Bone goes outwards and ascends up to the Basis of the Os Hyoeides Sternothurocides is a pair of Muscles of the Cartilago Scutiformis which draw it downward this arises from the uppermost and inward part of the Breast-Bone and is inserted into the lower side of the Cartilago Ensiformis Sternutatio Sneezing is a forcible driving out of the Head some sharp Matter which vellicates and disturbs the Nerves and Fibres 'T is defin'd likewise an involuntary Motion of the Brain which also contracts the Muscles of the Thorax and Abdomen to the intent that the Matter which vellicates the Nostrils and Brain may be driven out Stigma a Scar. Stoma the Mouth as also the Mouths of any Vessels Stomachus is properly the left Orifice of the Ventricle or Stomach by which Meats are received into it To this part descend Nerves from the par Vagum and intercostal Nerves and are mix'd and woven with one another Strabilismus see Strabismus Strabismus Squinting is occasioned by the Relaxation Contraction Distorsion too great Length or too great Shortness of the Muscles which move the Eye Strabositas see Strabismus Sternutatorium five Sternutamentum a Sneezing Medicine or Snuff Stillicidium Vrinae see Stranguria Stranguria the Strangury is a difficulty of Urine when the Urine