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-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
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
any other because the Bran is cleansing Auxilium or remedium is whatsoever is good against a Disease by a contrary vertue and it is three-fold Diet Medicine and Chyrurgery Axilla is the Arm-pit hairy in adult people Axioma is a proposition built upon the Authority of Hippocrates or Galen but of little validity now that Physick is built upon Reason and Experience Axis is the third Vertebre from the Scull Axungia is the fat or tallow of an Hog Azoth sometimes signifies the Mercury of any Metallic body sometimes an Universal Remedy as 't is thought made of Mercury and prepared with Gold and Silver a few years ago it was famous amongst the Vulgar and Persons of Quality too of different colour according to the diversity of the preparation which was often too troublesome whence it begun to decrease both in price and repute Azygos is a famous Vein about the Heart called sine pari or jugo which reaches to the Vertebres and proceeds from the Vena Cava the great hallow Vein Azymus is unleavened unwholesome Bread B. BAcilli are called those Medicines which are of a long round Figure like a stick or Pillar Balanaeum or Balneum is properly a washing of the whole Body yet it is sometimes taken for a washing of the lower parts only which they commonly call Nisessus and semicupia and it is either dry or moist the dry are prepared of Ashes common Salt Sand filed Steel c. the moist are either vaporous or watery The former are made of the boiling of Roots Herbs Flowers Seeds c. the Vapour whereof is all that 's taken The watery are either artificial which are made of Physical Decoctions or Natural which are called Thermae Bathes whose Waters are either Aluminous Ironish Copperish Nitrous Sulphureous Bituminous Vitriolie c. all which Waters are called Acidulae Balanus or glans is the Nut of the Yard covered with the Fore-skin also the Clitoris of a Woman Also all Fruits and Roots that have round Heads as a Walnut also an Acorn an earth-Chesnut also a Suppository Balneum the same with Balaneum Balsamus or balsamum the Word Balsame is used very differently in the Shops 1. It signifies a certain sort of Persume of somewhat a thick Consistence like an Ointment and this is its most usual signification as for instance Balsame of Roses Apoplectic and the like 2. There are a sort of Liquors distilled from Gum and resinous Substances with spirit of Wine which are anointed outwardly and these are called Balsams too as Nervous Balsame Sciatic c. 3. It signifies a Liquor that is anointed into the Body thicker than Oyl and more Liquid than an Ointment 4. Salt things funded and melted are called Balsame as the Balsame of Salt of Jewels 5. There are a sort of particular preparations called Balsams as the balsam of Sulphur c. 6. and Lastly some Gums of Trees are called Balsams Bamma is a Tincture or a Liquor wherein any thing is tinged or moistned as bread sopt in broth Barycoja is heaviness of hearing Basilareos see basis Basilica is the inner Vein of the Arm called Hepatica the Liver vein Basilicum is a rich precious Medicine that excels all others Basioglossum is a pair of Muscles that depress the Tongue Basis is the upper part of the Heart which is opposite to the point it is also the ground or foundation of the bone Hyoides for the use of the Tongue also the principal Ingredient in a prescription Bathmis is a Cavity in the bone of the Arm or Shoulder on each side one whereinto when the whole hand is stretched forth and bended the process of the undermost and lesser of the two long bones of the Cubit enters Batrachus is a Tumor under the Tongue which makes one croak like a Toad when they speak Bechica are Medicines good against a Cough Belenoides is the process or shooting forth of a bone called Aliformis made like a wing which is fixed in the Basis of the Scull Benignus morbus a favourable disease is that which has no dreadful Symptoms but such as are consonant to its nature Bicongius is a measure which contains Twelve Sextaries one of which is just our Pint and an half Bilis the gall is a Sulphureous Saline Excrement of the blood separated in the Liver by means of little Glandules and is sent either into the little bag that contains the Gall or into the Gut called Dundenum by the Ductus Hepaticus that it may farther promote the fermentation of the victuals and carry off the Dregs that are left behind when the Chyle is separated from the whole Mass The Gall consists of Sulphur Adust Salt and a little Serum it is naturally yellow preternaturally it is of the Colour of the yolk of an Egg green like a Leek rustie and sky-coloured all which variety of colours proceed onely from different degrees of Heat and Fermentation Sylvius maintained That the Bile ascended to the Heart by the ductus hepaticus but this Opinion as it is neither consonant to Experience nor Reason so nor to Truth neither this excrement is not called Bile but when it is separated from the Blood and therefore the Opinion of the Ancients concerning this Bilious Humour is quite out of doors since that Circulation of the Blood was found out See Humores Sanguinei Biolychnion is Natural Heat which is communicated to the Faetus from the Parents but when it is brought forth the heat gradually decays after that the Blood and Spirits of the Child are altered fermented and accended by nourishment and nitrous Air. They do but babble who tell us that this Heat lasts for many years for if it be Heat it is in continual Motion and is therefore dispelled as other Fires and Heats are Blaesitas is a stammering in speech which proceeds from the ill make or temperature of the Tongue Blaesus is one that has an Impediment in his Speech Also a Bandy-legg'd Person or one whose Back bone is bended either forward or backward also a Paralitic Person Blenna is a thick Snot which distills through the little holes of the Palat and the Nostrils and proceeds from the Ventricles of the Brain by the Processes called Maniformes like Teats Bocium the same with Bronchocele Bolus is a Medicine taken inwardly of a consistence something thicker than Honey and in quantity for one Dose as much as may be conveniently taken at a mouthful Bovina fames the same with Bulimus Bothor signifies Pimples in the Face which don't spread but are easily suppurated and vanish It is besides a general Appellation for Pimples in the Face Lungs or other parts The Arabians also call the small Pox and the Measels Bothor Bracherium the same with Amma Brachiale the same with Carpus Brachiaeus see Lacertus Brachium or Lacertus is a Member that consists of the Arm properly so called the cubit and the hand Brachylogia of the same signification with Brachylogus Brachylogus is one who gives his
place where a Fire is conveniently kept for Chymical uses and it is either open or covered Furor the same with Manea Furor Uterinus is an unseemly Distemper which is wont to seize upon Maids especially those of riper Years and sometimes Widows too They who are troubled with it throw off the Veil of common Modesty and Decency and Delight onely in lascivious obscene Discourses they covet a man greedily and even furiously and omit no inviting Temptations that may induce them to satisfie their desires The cause seems to be in the Seminal juice which being Exalted to the highest degree of Maturity drives the Maids into a kind of Fury which is conspicuous every year in some Bruits as in Cats Bulls Bucks Does Harts There is another Distemper akin to this which the Ancients called the Fervour of the Womb or the Matrix when the whole substance and body of the Womb is extream hot accompanied with a pain and heaviness of the Loyns a roughness by the growth of Hair Loathing and a suppression of the Urine and Excrements and the Woman all the while covets to be laid with but by reason of pain is still afraid of it Furunculus a Boyl is an acute swelling as big as a Pigeons Egg attended with an Inflamation and Pain especially when it begins to Corrupt and Putrifie when it is opened and the Matter let out part of the Flesh underneath is turned into Corruption of a whitish and reddish Colour which some call the Ventricle of the Furunculus there is no danger in it though you apply no Remedy to it for it ripens of it self and bursts but the pain makes it more Elegible to apply a Remedie because that frees the Patient sooner from his trouble Fusio is a melting with heat G. GAllactophori are Ductus's which carry Milk convey the Chyle as some Modern Authors have fancied a streight way from the Guts to the Glandules of the Breasts yet the Arteries were more properly so called because they carry the Chyle along with the Blood to the Breasts wherein Milk is reserved for the use of the Faetus Galactopoietice Facultas is nothing but an Aptitude to sequester Milk in the Breasts of the seParating of Milk See in the Word Lac. Galenica Medicina is that Physick which is built upon the Principles of Galen and therefore they are Galenists who embrace the Foundation of their Art which are fetched from Galen and the Philosophers proved by Reason and confirmed by Experience Galea is a pain in the Head so called from the likeness of the place because it takes in the whole Head like an Helmet in Latin Galea Galea is likewise when the Head of the Faetus is clothed with part of the Membrane called Amneos as it comes into the World Galreda or Gelatina Gellie is a Thickned Viscous and Lucid Juicie Substance it is commonly made of the Cartilaginous parts of Animals boiled as of Calves Feet c. Ganglion is an Humour in the Tendinous and Nervous parts procecding from a Fall Stroke or otherwise it resists if stirred if pressed upon its side is not diverted nor can be turned round Gangraena a Gangrene is a Cadaverous Corruption of a part attended with a beginning of Stink Blackness and Mortification Gargareon See Cion Gargarisma a Gargarisme is a Liquid Medicine which cleanses the Mouth and the Adjacent parts by Gargling without swallowing and it is either a Decoction wherein convenient Syrups are dissolved or distilled Waters mixed with Syrups and sometimes with Mineral Spirits Gastrocnemium is the Calf of the Leg whence its Muscles are called Gastrocnemii from their swelling like a belly Gastrocnemii Musculi see Gastrocnemium Gastroepiploica is the Vein and Arterie which goes to to the Ventricle and the Cawl Gastrorhaphia is a Connexion or a Suture in the wounds of the Abdomen Gaudium is a cheerfulness proceeding from the apprehension of some good obtained or to be obtained Gelatina is almost the same with Galreda but that is of a more general signification and is taken for any Pellucide Glutinous Juice which used first to be made of the juice of Fruits as of Apples c. as the Gellie of Quinces c. Gena Mala is part of the Face from the Nose to the Ears Also the Chin the Jaw-bone which is either upper or lower Generatio is a natural Action whereby an Animal begets another like it of the same Species of convenient Seed in Generation the first thing we see is a red Speck which is clothed with a little bladder next a little Heart whence Veins and Arteries flow at the Extremitie whereof you see the Viscera the Bowels c. afterward the whole Faetus is formed and cloathed with Membranes before Generation the Seed of the Male being cast into the Womb enters and prepares its Pores afterwards sweats out a Viscous Substance like the white of an Egg which moves the Egg out of the Testicles and Tubes for the Womans Eggs are impregnated by the influence of the Seed are emitted out of the Testicles and received by the Fallopian Tubes Genioglossum is a pair of Muscles proceeding inwardly from the Chin under another pair called Geniohyoyides and are fastned in the Basis of the bone Hyoides Geniohyoides are Muscles reaching from the internal and lower Seat of the Chin to the Basis of the Bone Hyoides which is placed at the Basis of the Tongue Gercomia is a part of that part of Physick called Hygieina or Preservation of health which teaches the way of living for old Men. Gingipedium the same with Scorbutus Gingiva the Gums is a hard spurious sort of Flesh which surrounds the Teeth like a Rampart and in people that want Teeth helps to the chewing their meat which being either eat out relaxed or too dry the Teeth shake or fall out Ginglymus is a Conjunction of Bones when the Head of one is received into the Cavitie of another and again the head of this into the Cavity of that Glacialis Humor see Humoris Oculi Glandula a Glandule is a Substance of a peculiar nature fleshie white or gray and Friable and it is two-fold adventitious as those Kernels which are sometimes under the Arm-holes and in the Neck the Kings Evil a swelling in the Larynx and middle of the Wind-pipe c. or perpetual and natural as the Thymus Pancreas Glandula Pinealis c. the perpetual is again Two-fold either Conglobated in one entire piece which sends the separated Humour into the Veins as the pituitarie Glandule the Pinealis the Glandules of the Mesenterie of the Groins c. or Conglomerated in a cluster which convey the juice by their own Channels into some notable Cavities of the body as the Pancreas the Glandules of the Breast the Salival Glandules c. Glandula Guidonis is a Tumor like a Glandulae soft single Movable without Roots and separate from the adjacent parts Glandula Pinealis see Conarium Glandula Pituitaria is a little body in the Sella Equina a