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
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
a Joynt or Connexion of Bones proper for the performing of Motion Articuli are sometimes the Knuckles of the Fingers Anthropologia is the Doctrine of Man which Batholine distinguishes into two parts Anatomie which Treats of the Bodie and its Parts and Psucologie which Treats of the Soul Arthrosis the same that Articulatio Articularis morbus see Arthritis Articulatio is a Conjunction of Limbs for the performing of Motion and it is twofold Diarthrosis or a more loose Articulation and Synarthrosis or a closer Articulus see Arthron Artomeli is Broth made of honey and bread Artus are Members growing to Cavities in the body and distinguished by Joynts Arytaenoides are two Cartilages which with others make up the top of the Larynx it is taken also for certain Muscles of the Larynx Arythmus is a Pulse lost to sense Ass or Assis is the least piece of Money that 's Currant and in Weight a Pound Asaphia is a lowness of Voice which proceeds from a loose or ill constitution or contemporation of the Organs Ascaris or Ascarides are little worms which breed in the Intestinum rectum and then tickle and trouble it They are bred of some Excrements which stay longer than they ought and there putrefie Ascites is a Dropsie or swelling of the Abdomen and consequently of the Scrotum Thighs and Feet proceeding from a Serous and sometimes Lymphatic or Chylous Matter like the washing of flesh collected in the cavity of those parts Asef the same with Hydrea Asema is a Crisis beyond hope happening without any previous indication by signs Asitia is a loathing of Meat Asodes see Assodes Aspera Arteria or Trachea is an Oblong Pipe consisting of various Cartilages and Membranes which begin at the Throat or lower part of the Jaws lies upon the Gullet descends into the Lungs and is dispersed by manifold Ramifications or Branches through their whole substance the upper part is called Larynx and the lower Bronchus to which Malpighius adds a third or lowest called by him Vesicular It is subservient to Speech and Respiration Asphyxia is a pulse that is sensibly decayed Assodes signifies a continual Fever wherein the outward parts are moderately warm but with a great heat within an insatiable drought perpetual tossing watching and raving Asthma is a frequent respiration joyned with an hissing a sound and a cough especially in the Night-time The causes thereof are a sharp and scorbutic blood which too much vellicates the Organs of respiration and puts them into a meer convulsive motion whereby the Lungs are puft up and the Circulation of the Blood is hindred whence suffocations swounds and coughs easily proceed Astragalus is the first and most principal Bone which together with other little bones in the Foot make up that little part of the Foot which immediately succeedeth the Leg in Beasts called the Pastern Astringentia binding things are those which with the thickness and figure of their Particles force and bind together the parts of the body Astrologia is a reasoning about the Vertues of the Stars not so necessary to Physicians as the Ancients imagined Astronomia is a naming of the Stars or a knowledge of the laws and rules of Stars and Constellations or a knowledge concerning or about the Stars Ataxia is a confounding of Critical Days Atecnia the same with Agonia Atheroma is a tumor contained within its own coat arising from a pappy humour without pain not easily yielding to the Fingers nor leaving any dint after 't is compressed Athymia is a Defection or Anxiety of Mind Atlas is the first Vertebre under the Head so called because it seems to hold up the Head it wants Marrow Atâ—mus is a Body so small that it is not capable oâ— being divided into lesser parts as are the Elementary Particles of Spirit Salt Sulphur Water and Earth Atonia is a faintness infirmity defect of strength Atra Bilis is a sulphureous and saline earthy adust and black blood which is bred in the body and gathered in the Spleen for there it is volatilized and exalted into a ferment fit to mix with the blood Atretus is one whose Fundament or privy parts are not perforated Atrophia or Tabes is when the whole body or any one part of it is not nourished but gradually withers and decays away Tabes is often taken only for an Ulcer in the Lungs whereby the whole body by little and little perishes and decays Atta says Festus is one who by reason of the tenderness of or other defects in his Feet touches the ground rather than treads it Attenuantia or incidentia are those things which opening the Pores with their acute Particles cut the thick and viscous humours in the body Attonitus morbus the same with an apoplexy Celsus takes it for Blasting Attrahentia drawing things are those which opening the Pores with their little Particles and dilating the humours and expelling them where their resistance is weaker not onely swell the parts and make them red but by driving more vapours and humours out of the Skin and Flesh than can make their way through a thick inner Skin gather them under it and swell it into little bladders Auctio is Nutrition whereby more is restored than was lost Auditus Hearing is a Sense wherein sounds from the various trembling Motion of the circum ambient Air beating the Drum of the Ear are communicated to the common sensory by the auditory Neâ—ve and are there felt and perceived Augmeâ—tum Febricum or incrementum is a computation from what time the heat of a continual Fever has seised upon the whole Mass of Blood till it hath arrived at the height Aureus is a sort of Weight amongst the Arabians of a Dram and a Seventh part the same with Denarius Auricula infima the same with Lobus auris Auricula cordis Ear of the Heart there are two of them the right and the left the right receives the blood from the vena cava or great Vein which is carried into the right Ventricle and then enters the Lungs the left is that which receives the blood rightly prepared and fermented by the Nitrous Air from the Lungs that it may be discharged by the left Ventricle into the great Arterie and thence be distributed into every part of the body Aurigo the same with Icterus Auris the Ear is the Organ of hearing which is either External whose upper part is called Pinna or Ala and the under Lobus the Lobe or Auricula infima the lowest part of the Ear its External circumference is called Helix the Internal Anthelix or internal in which you may consider the Drum the four little Bones with the little Muscles the Concha or Hollowness the Foramen Ovale the Oval hole the Labyrinth Automatos is that which moves of its own accord as the Motion of the Heart the digestions and fermentations of the bowels Autopyros is bread made of whole Grains without any bran taken from it or added to it This sort of bread is preferr'd before
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
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
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
nature but withal cold and full of thick and boughy parts which if they are mix'd with a thin Juice by joyning and stifning the Parts one with another make a more Dense and firm Composition as Bole-armoniack Mill-dust Water-lillies Almonds Poppies c. Paedotropica is a part of Hygrena that concerns the Management of Boys Palatum the Palate is the upper part of the Mouth which because it somewhat resembles the upper part of an House is thence called the Roof of the Mouth Palliatio or Cura Palativa is a Medicine which helps as much as is possible incurable Diseases by the Application of present Remedies Palindrome is a Disease into which one relapses Palma is the inside of a Man's Hand which we call the Palm Palmus is a Shivering or palpitation of the Heart caused by a Convulsion or Irritation of the Nerves the cause whereof consists in the Blood or nervous Juice or in the Water in the Membrane that covers the Heart Palpebrae are the Coverings of the Eyes made up of a Skin a fleshy Membrane Muscles a Tunick and another little Skin called Tarsus with Hair upon the uppermost Skin They are either the upper or the under Eye-lids Palpitatio cordis naturalis the natural Palpitation of the Heart is in the Systole thereof whilst the Cone and the Sides are press'd together the Basis and the Roots of the Vessels being blown up with the Blood that gathers there grows big and swoln It oft proceeds from an extraordinary Contraction of the Heart or a thick and irritating Matter which sticks in the Heart Panacaea is a general sort of Physick for all Diseases indifferently but I question if there be any such thing Many People brag much of Tobacco Tincture of the Sun the Philosophers-stone vitriolated Tartar c. Panaritium vid. Paronychia Pancaenus vid. Pandemius Panchymagoga are purgative Medicines that expel all corrupt Humours Pancreas the Sweet-bread Pancration Pancreon Callicreas Callicreon Lactes are all synonimous It is a conglomerated Glandule in the Abdomen placed behind the Ventricle and fastened to the Gut Duodenum and reaches as far as the Liver and the Spleen the Use and Office thereof is to convey a volatile Insipid and Lymphatick Juice or as others will have it for 't is a disputable Point a something acid Juice by its own Ductus to the Gut Duodenum in order to a farther Fermentation and Volatilisation of the Chyle and to attemperate and allay the Qualities of the Gall It is the biggest Glandule in the whole Body but bigger in a Dog than a Man Pandalea as the modern Physicians call it is the same with a solid Electuary but that it remains intire for the Sugar being rightly boiled is let grow hard the Patient takes a piece of it like a Lambative it only in the shape differs from Rolls and Morsels Pandemius is a Disease which is rife in some places or other Pandiculatio is a certain Dilatation and convulsive Distension of the Muscles by which the Vapours that annoy them are cast off Panicus is a sudden Fear or Consternation Panniculus Carnosus is a fat sort of Membrane in some parts thick and musculous in other parts thin with many Ductus's of Fat in it it covers the whole Body Panus is a sort of Botch or Sore under the Arm-pits Jaws Ears and Groins to wit in the Glandulous Parts It is also taken for Phygethus Papillae Intestinorum are little Glandules wherewith the in-most Tunick of the Entrails is full they soak in the percolated Chyle and dispense it to the lacteal Veins Papilla is a red Excrescency in the middle of the Breast in the Pores whereof are received all the milky Tubes or Pipes proceeding from the Glandules of the Breasts Papillarum processus are the Extremities of the Olfactory Nerves which convey the slimy viscous Humours by the Fibres which perforate the Os cribriforme to the Nostrils and Palate Papulae vid. Pustulae also a kind of small Pox. See Exanthemata Paracelsistica Med. vid Hermetica Paracentesis or Punctio is a Perforation of the Chest and Abdomen through a cuspidate Channel It hapens in the Breast when it is stuff'd with putrified Matter or Water and then there 's a pricking in the side between the fifth and sixth Vertebre It happens in the Abdomen when it is swell'd by a Dropsy near the white Seam in the Abdomen in the Muscles that either ascend right or oblique If a Man be strong and has taken a Purge and also his Lungs and the rest of his Entrails be uncorrupted when the Navel doth protuberate don't look another way for there you must make the Incision don't let Purulency and Water come out both together for that were to kill the Patient but one after the other as in seven days a pound or a pound and an half as the Patient can endure it After the Operation is finished draw the Wound up with an astringent Plaister If the inward Vessels and Passages be broke through this pricking it 's to no purpose to endeavour the Cure Paracheteusis vid. Derivatio Paracmastica is a daily declining Feaver also declining Age. Paracme vid. in Acme Parachynanche is an Inflammation with a continual Feaver and difficulty of Breathing excited in the outward Muscles of the Larynx Paralysis is an Aboition of voluntary Motion or Sense or both either in all the Body or only some part It comes by either an Obstruction Obscission Contusion or pressing of the Nerves or by an Indisposition or ill Conformity of the Muscles Paramesus is the next Finger to the middle one called the Ring-finger Paraphimosis is a fault of the Yard when the Praeputium's too short also a Narrowness and Contraction of the Womb. Paeraphrenitis is Madness accompanied with a continual Feaver through the Inflammation of the Midriff with difficulty of breathing as the Ancients dream'd But Dr. Willis has confuted this Opinion of it and says the matter of it lies in the Cerebellum whereby the Animal Spi-Spirits cannot flow and thence the Midriff and Lungs are troubled Paraphrosyne is a slight sort of Doting in the Imagination and Judgment Paraphlegia is a Palsy which seizeth all the parts of the Body below the Head through an Obstruction of the spinal Marrow Paraplexia idem quod Paraplegia Pararythmus is a preternatural Breathing Parastatae vid. Epididymis Parasananche is an Inflammation of the Muscles of the upper part of the Aesophagus with a continued Feaver Paremptosis is a falling as when Blood slides from the Heart into the great Artery Parencephalos idem quod Cerebellum Perenchymata are Entrails by which the Blood passes for better Fermentation and Perfection as the Lungs Liver Heart and Spleen c. Sometimes Parenchyma is taken in a large Sence for all the Entrails Paristhmia or Amygdalae are two Glandules tied together by a broad slender Production they have one common Cavity large and oval opening into the Mouth the Use they serve for is to transmit a certain
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
Genu. Scutiformis Cartilago see Ensiformis Scutum see Mola Genu. Scybala are Sheeps or Goats c. Buttons or Excrement Scypho is the Infundibulum in the Brain Likewise those Passages which convey the Spittle from the Os Cribriforme to the Pallat. Sectio Caesaria see Hysteratomotocia Secundinae the Secundine or After-Birth are the three Membranes Chorion Alantois and Amnion which with the Placenta are excluded after the Birth Sedimentum Vrinae the Sediment of Urine are parts of the nutritious Juice which being separated from the Blood with the Serum because of their gravity sink to the bottom of the Urine Sella Equina seu Turcica it is compounded of four Processes of the Bone Sphenoeides or Wedg-like Bone it contains the Pituitarian Glandule and in Brutes the Rete Mirabile Sella Sphenoeidis the same with Sella Equina Sella Turcica the same Semeiosis see Diagnosis Semeiotica is that part of Physick which treats of the Signs of Health and Sickness Semen Seed is a white hot spirituous thick clammy saltish Humor which is made out of the thinnest parts of the Blood in the Testicles and Epididymides and by proper Passages is ejected into the Womb of the Female There is also in the Female a Matter which is called Seed which proceeds from the Prostates and frequently in their Lechery is emitted forth The use of this is to raise Titillation and render the Coition more pleasant Semicupium is a Bath in which the Patient is only up to the Navel in Water Sensorium Commune or the Seat of common Sense is that part of the Brain in which the Nerves from the Organs of all the Senses are terminated which is in the beginning of the Medulla Oblongata Sensus Sense is when the Motion impressed by the outward Objects upon the Fibres of the Nerves is convey'd by the help of the Animal Spirits in the Nerves to the common Sensory or Medulla Oblongata Sephyros is a hard Inflammation of the Womb. Septa the same with Septica Septica sive Putrefacientia are those things which by a malignant Heat and sharpness rot and corrupt the Flesh Septum Lucidum is a Partition upon the account of its thinness Diaphanous which distinguishes the Ventricles of the Brain Septum Transversum see Diaphragma Serpigo see Lichen Serapium see Syrupus Serra a Saw Serum is a watery thin yellowish and saltish Humor which consists chiefly of Water with a moderate quantity of Salt and a little Sulphur The Use of it is to be a Vehicle to the Blood Sesamoeidea Ossa are 16 19 20 and sometimes more little Bones so called from the likeness they have to Sesamum Seeds which are found in the Joynts of the Hands and Feet Setaceum is when the Skin of the Neck is taken up and run through with a Needle and the Wound afterward kept open by Bristles a Skean of Silk c. that so the ill Humors may vent themselves Sextans is the sixth part of a Pound containing two Ounces Sialismus see Ptyalismus Sialochus see Ptyalismus Sialon see Sielos Saliva Sideratio see Spacelos Sief Album see Collyrium Sigmoides are the Apophyses of the Bones representing the Letter C of the ancient Greeks Also the three Valves of the Great Artery that hinder the Blood from returning back to the Heart Signum Morbi the Symptome of a Disease Siliqua is half a Lupin of which six weigh a Scruple This is to be understood of the Seed contained in it Similares partes Similar Parts are such as are throughout of the same Nature and Texture Simplicia Simples are Medicines unmixt and uncompounded Sinapismus is a Medicine applyed to the Head and is prepared of Mustard wild Radish Salt and Leven Sinciput the sides of the Head Singultus see Lygmus Sinus Mening is are those Cavities which Galen calls the Ventricles of the Thick Membrane The first and second or the lateral Sinus's are seated between the Brain and the Cerebellum and end in the Vertebral Sinus's The third begins from the Os Cribiforme and ends in the middle of the former Sinus's The fourth arises from the Pinealis Glandule and ends in the middle of the lateral Sinus's The Insertion of these Sinus's is called Torcular Herophili The Sinus's after they have passed through the Skull are partly continued with the Jugular Veins and partly descend through the whole length of the Spinal Marrow down to the Os Sacrum The Use of them is to supply the place of Veins for they convey the Blood from the Brain and Cerebellum partly into the Jugular Veins and partly into the Vertebral Sinus's Sinus Ossium are those Cavities of the Bones which receive the Heads of other Bones Sircasis is an Inflammation or rather great Heat of the Brain and its Membranes occasion'd by the heat of the Sun This is frequent in Children because of the thinness of their Skulls Sirones are a sort of Pustles which arise in the Palms of the Hands and Soles of the Feet and contain in them a very little sort of Worms or Lice Sitis Thirst is a Defect of the Salival Juice which occasions the fancy and desire of Drink Solutio chymica is a resolving any Body into its Chymical Principles which are Spirit Salt Sulphur Water and Earth Solutio continui is a Dissolution of the Unity and Continuity of the Parts As in Wounds Ulcers Fractures c. Somnambulo see Noctambulo Somnifera or Sleeping Medicines are such which consisting of faetid Sulphureous parts dissipate and extinguish the Animal Spirits and hinder their increase whence follows Sleep Somnus Sleep is a streightning of the Pores of the Brain caused by the Rest of the Animal Spirits by which means the outward Senses rest from their Operations Somnolentia continua is a constant Drouziness and Inclination to Sleep this comes to pass when the Pores of the outward or Cortical Substance of the Brain are quite closed up by some viscous Matter so that the Animal Spirits cannot freely pass Spagyrica Medecina see Hermetica Sparadrapum is a piece of Linnen ting'd of both sides either with a thick Ointment or Plaister and is made this way after you have melted your Ointment or Plaister dip your Linnen in it extend it and keep it for use Sora see Essere Sparganum see Fascia Sparganosis is a Distention of the Breasts occasioned by too much Milk Spasma see Spasmns Spasmodica are Medicines against Convulsions Spasmologia is a Treatise of Convulsions Spasmus is any Convulsive Motion Cardan makes two sorts of Convulsive Affections viz. Tetanus and Spasmus by the former he understands a constant Contraction whereby the Member becomes rigid and inflexible by the latter he understands sudden Concussions and Motions which cease and return alternately Spatha is an oblong Instrument broad at the lower end Its Use is to take up Conserves and Electuaries without fouling the Hands Spathomela is an oblong Instrument made of Silver or Iron which Chirurgions and Apothecaries use Species or Pouders are those Simples which