Frame and Structure of the whole Body or more strictly the Composure of the Bones Synulotica see Cicatrisantia Syringa a Syringe is an Instrument which is used in injecting Liquors into the Fundament Womb Ears c. Syringomata are Chirurgions Knives which they open Fistula's with Syringotomia is the Incision of the Fistula Syringotomus the same Syrupus Syrup Sysarcosis is the connexion of Bones by Flesh Sysygia is the Natural Temper Systema the same that Synthesis Systole is the Contraction of the Ventricles of the Heart whereby the Blood is forcibly driven into the great Artery T. TAbella is a solid Medicine taken inwardly made of Powder and three or four times as much Sugar dissolved in a convenient Liquor boiled to the Consistence of a Syrup and made into little round Cakes upon a Marble-Stone Tabes see Atrophia Tabes dorsalis a Consumption in the spinal Marrow most incident to Lechers and fresh Bride-grooms they are without a Fever eat well and melt or consume away If you ask one in this Disease an account of himself he will tell you that there seem so many Pismires to fall from his Head down upon his spinal Marrow when he eases Nature either by Urine or Stool there flows thin liquid Seed plentifully nor can he generate but when he sleeps whether it be with his Wife or no he has lascivious Dreams When he goes or runs any way but especially up à steep place he grows weak and short breathed his Head is heavy and his Ears tingle So in progress of Time being taken with violent Fevers he dies of a Fever called Lipyria wherein the external Parts are cold and the internal burn at the same time Tabula see Tabella Morsuli Tabum is a thin sort of Matter that comes from an ill Ulcer Tactus the Touch is a Sense whereby the tactile Qualities of Bodies are offered to the common Sensory and there perceived by the different motion of Nerves diffused through the whole Body the Skin being intermediate Or Touch is the Sense of a thing touched offered to the common Sensory by the Nerves the Skin being intermediate and there perceived Talpa is a Tumor so called because that as a Mole in Latine Talpa creeps under ground so this feeds upon the Scull under the Skin It may be referred to the Species of Atheromas which see Talparia the same that Talpa Talus see Astragalus Taraxis is a Perturbation of the Humours of the Eye the Stomach or the Entrails Tarsus is a cartilaginous Extremity of the Eye-lids whence the Hairs spring called Cilium Also eight backward Bones of the Foot ordered like Grates Tecmarsis is a Conjecture at Diseases Telephium is the same Ulcer with Chironia which see it is so called from Telephus who was a long time troubled with this Disease Temperamentum Temperament is a Quality that results from the Union and Mixture of Elements See Crasis Temperies see Crasis Tempus the Temple is a lateral part of the Scull in the middle betwixt the Ears and Eyes where Cephalick Plaisters are applied for the Tooth-ach and Head-ach Tendo a Tendon is a similar nervous part annexed to Muscles and Bones whereby the voluntary Motion of the Members is chiefly performed The generality of Chirurgeons scarce ever distinguish betwixt a Tendon and a Nerve Tenesmus Tenasmus is a continual Desire of going to Stool yet attended with an Inability of doing any thing but bloody slimy Matter Tentigo see Priapismus Terebrum see Modiolus Teredum the same that Caries Teretrum see Modiolus Tergum see Dorsum Terminthus is a swelling in the Thighs with a black Pimple at the top as big as the Fruit of the Turpentine-tree Terra mortua is the earthy part that remains after Elixivation destitute of all active efficacious Qualities Tertiana Febris intermittens a Tertian Ague is an Effervescence of the Blood every third day which with its various Symptoms comes exactly at a set time The Cause of it is Nitro-sulphureous Blood and it is either a true Tertian or a spurious Testes Muliebres see Orchis Testes viriles Mens Testicles consist of several small Vessels wherein the Seed is generated It is covered on the out-side with several Tunicks Testes Cerebri are two backward Prominences of the Brain called Testes from the likeness they have to Testicles They are bigger in Men than in Brutes Testudo Cerebri see Fornix Testudo is a soft large Swelling or not very hard in the Head broad in form of an Arch or Tortoise from which Resemblance it takes its Name At the beginning it grows like a Chest-nut afterwards like an Egg wherein is contained a soft Matter clothed with a certain Tunick whence some refer this sort of Tumour to Meliceres which see which sticks so close to the Scull that many times it infects and corrupts it Tetanus is a constant Contraction whereby a Limb grows rigid and inflexible The Cause of it is sometimes a Relaxation or Palsy in some other Muscles which when they are relaxed the opposite Muscles act too strongly so that they draw the part wholly to themselves which ought to consist as it were in an Aequilibrium betwixt both Yet sometimes such a permanent Contraction may proceed from the Tendons being loaded and obstructed with serous Matter which thereupon grow rigid and stiff This Distemper is frequent in the Scurvies that the Patient can extend neither Joint nor Limb The Tendons in the Back are sometimes contracted into a round globular Form which by reason of such an Afflux of Humours upon them draw the Bones out of their due place and cause an hunched Back or a stooping and bending of it It is usually distinguished into Vniversal of which there are three sorts Emprosthotonos Opisthotonos and Tetanos properly so called and Particular which respects a certain Member or a particular Joint Tetrapharmacum is a Medicine consisting of four Ingredients as Vnguentum Basilicum Theorema see Theoria Theoretica see Theoria Theoria is the speculative part of Physick whence Theorema a Speculation and Theoretica those things which belong to the speculative part of Physick Therapeutica is that part of Physick which delivers the Method of Healing Theriaca Triacle is a Medicine that expels Poyson Therioma is a wild cruel Ulcer like Carcinoma which see Thermae are natural Baths Thermantica are healing Medicines Therminthus see Terminthus Thermomethron is natural Heat which is perceived by the Pulses Thlipsis is a Compression of Vessels Thorax or medius Venter the Chest is all that Cavity which is circumscribed above by the Neck-bones below by the Diaphragme before by the Breast-bone behind by the Back-bones on the sides by the Ribs it is of an Oval Figure contains the Heart and Lungs and is covered on the inside with a Membrane called Pleura Hippocrates and Aristotle took all that space from the Neck-bone to the very Secrets both the middle and lowermost Cavity for the Thorax Thorexis is the drinking of a generous Wine which
when 't is fully and compleatly so the fourth is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the declension of a distemper when its rage is abated and the Patient is judged beyond danger for none die in the declension of a disease This diversity of periods arises from the bloods imbibing of crude juices which have their times of crudity maturation or ripening defection and volatility and thus the case may be said to stand in Fevers and other distempers Acopum is a medicine which applied by fomentation allays the sence of weariness contracted by a too violent motion of the body compounded of warming and mollifying ingredients Acosmia is an ill state of health joined with the loss of colour in the face Acoustica are medicines which help the hearing Acrasia is the excess or predominancy of one quality above another in mixture Acrisia is when a distemper is in so uncertain and fluctuating a condition that the Physitian can hardly pass a right Judgment upon it Acrâ—â—â—olum is a species of warts Acromium is the upper process or increase of the shoulder-blade or the top of the shoulder where the neck-bones are joined with the shoulder-blades Acromphalum is the middle of the Navel Acros is the height and vigor of diseases as also it signifies the prominency of bones the tops of fingers and of plants Acrotes is the vigor top and extremity of any thing as sulphureous and saline particles exalted ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is brought to the most exalted vigour their nature is capable of Actio is an Operation or Function which men perform either by the body alone or by both body and mind and it is either animal which depends upon the brain or natural which is owing to the Cerebellum Acutus morbus an acute disease is that which is over in a little time but not without imminent danger and it is either very acute or most acute the later is meant when the distemper is over in three or four days but the former is that which continues till the seventh day or else a disease is called simply acute when it lasts fourteen or it may be twenty days or lastly acute ex decidentia which lasts forty days at most Aden is a glandule which is either conglobated as the glandules of the Mesentery of the Groin and the Pinealis whose office is to dispense the separated humor to the veins or conglomerated like a Cluster as the salival glandules the Pancreas or Sweet-bread c. which convey their juice by their own proper channels into some notable cavities of the body they are made up several little bladders and fibres or little hollow conduits disposed in a confused manner Aden sometimes also signifies the same with bubo Adephagia is the greediness of children who ever now and then fall to fresh feeding before their former victuals are digested Adeps or Pinguedo fat is a similar part made of earthy and sulphereous blood white soft insensible apt to preserve natural heat and nourish the body in time of need The eye-lids the lips the yard the Scrotum or outward skin of the cods the membranes of the testicles the brain the tendons the nerves the bones c. are destitute of fat by nature Adeps and Pinguedo differ in this that Adeps is a thicker harder and more earthly substance than Pinguedo the fat which is particularly meant by Adeps flows from the blood through vessels into little bags or bladders appropriate thereunto as is plain from the observation of Malphighius Adiapneustia is a different perspiration through the insensible pores of the body Adnata tunica is the common membrane of the eye called Conjunctive it springs from the skull grows to the exterior part of the tunica cornea and that the visible species may pass there leaves a round cavitie forward to which is annexed another tunic without any particular name made up of the tendons of those muscles which move the eye by reason of its whiteness 't is called Albuginia Aegilops Angilops and Anchylops is a little swelling about the glandule of the eye called Carancula major for the most part accompanied with an inflamation Anchylops and Aegilops are often used indifferently yet some for distinction's sake say that Anchylops is a swelling betwixt the greater corner of the eye and the nose not yet open but that aegylops is a swelling betwixt the nose and angle of the eye which if it be not seasonably opened the bone underneath grows putrified Aegilops is often taken for the Fistula lachrymalis it signifies likewise a sort of grass that is destructive of Barley Aeipathia is a passion of long continuance Aeromeli is Manna or aerial honey for in Calabria and other places the air is impregnated with several delicious particles which in the night time cleave to trees leaves or any other thing they meet with and in the day time are farther concocted and condensated by the heat of the Sun Aetas is part of the duration of life wherein from the continual action and fermentation of the blood and spirits the temperature of humane bodies undergo a considerable and sensible change and it is sixfold Pueritia childhood which is reckoned to the fifth year of our age is distinguished into the time before at and after breeding of teeth 2. Adolescentia Youth reckoned to the eighteenth and youth properly so called to the twenty fifth year 3. Juventus reckoned from the twenty fifth to the thirty fifth 4. Virilis Aetas manhood from the thirty fifth to the fiftieth 5. Senectus old age from fifty to sixty 6. Decrepita Aetas decrepit age follows which at last is all swallowed up in death Aetiologia is the cause or reason which is given of natural and preternatural contingencies in humane bodies whence Aetilogica is part of Physick which explains the causes of diseases and health Aetiologica see Aetiologia Affectio Hypochondriaca see Hypochondriacus affectus Affectus the same with Pathema Agerazia is a growing old Agonia is fear and sadness of mind Agonia is barrenness or impotence of the Womb whereby the mans seed corrupts Agrippa is one who is born with his feet foremost Agrypnia signifies watching or a dreaming slumber which proceeds from a too great agitation or attension of the animal spirits in the pores of the brain whence it happens that the pores are not permitted to close and wet Agripnocoma the same that Coma Vigil Agyrta is a Mountebank one who vends his Empyrical Receits to the Rabble that surrounds him Aisthesis or Sence is either external as seeing hearing smelling tast and touch or internal as the common sensory as 't is usually called the Fancy the estimative faculty and the memory but two of them will serve the turn the fancy and the memory Aisthesis or sence is a reception whereby motion from external objects being impressed upon the slender strings or fibres of the nerves is communicated to the common sensory or to the beginning of the medulla oblongata in
place in the Brain so called covered over with the Rete mirabile in many Brutes but not in Man it receives the serous Humour from the Infindibulum and the Rete Mirabule which it sends into the Jugular Veins and the Lymphatic Vessels Glandulosum Corpus the same with Prostata Glans the same with Balanus and Suppositorium Glaucoma is a fault in the Eye or a Transmutation of the Chrystaline Humour into a gray or sky-colour Glaucosis the same with Glaucoma Glene the same with Pupilla also the Cavitie of a Bone which receives another within it Glenoides are two Cavities in the lower part of the first Vertebre of the Neck Globulus Nasi is the lower Cartilaginous moveable part of the Nose Glossocomium is a Chyrurgions Instrument for broken Limbs so called from the shape of a Merchants little Casket which was formerly carried upon the back Glottis is the Chink of the Larynx which is covered by the Epiglottis Gluten says Avicen is a Secundary Humour and is so called when that dewie Humour is Agglutinated to the parts there were reckoned four of them Humor Innominatus that had no name Ros Glutea and Cambium but those Names are now out-dated Glutei are six Muscles which move the Buttocks on each side three Glutia are two Prominences of the Brain called Nates Glutos is the greater Rotator an Apophysis in the upper part of the Thigh-bone so called of the Buttock and the Thigh-bone named Trochanter Gomphoma the same that Gomphosis Gomphos is when the Pupil of the Eye going beyond a little skin of the Tunica uvea is like that swelling of hard Flesh in the corner of the Eye called Clavus Gomphosis or Conclavatio is when one Bone is fastned into another like a Nail as may be seen in the Teeth Gonorrhaea is a too great Effusion of Seed and it is either Simple when Crude thin Seed which is not white neither is Emitted and that rather from the Prostates then the Seminarie Vessels or Virulent when a Poysonous liquid Substance of a white or yellowish Colour is Ejected Gramma the same with Scrupulus Graudo see Chalasia Granum a Grain is the least weight we use they take instead of it sometimes white Pepper Corns twenty make a Scruple Graphoides is a Process like the Pen for a Table-book about the Basis of the Brain it inclines backward Gravedo the same with Coryza Gula see Pharynx Gumma Gallicum is the eating out a Bone in the French Pox. Gurgulio the same that Cion Gustus the Taste is a Sense whereby the Soul perceives the Taste of things from the Motion of the Nerve inserted into the Tongue and Palate for that purpose Gutta rosacea is a redness with Pimples wherewith the Cheeks Nose and whole Face is deformed as if it were sprinkled with red drops these Pimples or Wheals often increase so that they render the Face rough and horrid and the Nose monstrously big Gutturis os the same that Hyoides os Gymnastica the same that Evectica Gynaecia in general are the Accidents incident to Women but Hippocrates takes them more strictly for the Courses Gynaecomastum is a growing of the Breasts Gynaecomystax is a Tuft of Hair at the upper part of a Womans Secrets from this some take their estimate of the temperament of the Womb and the Testicles H. HAbitus the same with Hexis Haematosis or Sanguification depends principally upon the Fermentation Dissolution and Union of Particles to wit Spirit Sulphur and Salt especially upon the inspiration of Nitrous Air which accends the Sulphureous Blood in the Lungs Sanguification is performed in all the parts of the Body and not in any peculiar part as the Heart Liver or Spleen Haemodia is a great pain in the Teeth which proceeds from Acid and austere Particles which penetrate the Pores of the Teeth whence the Nerves being Vellicated and Contracted cause pain Haemophobus is one who fears to be let Bood Haemoptysis is the Spitting up of Blood from the Lungs which proceeds either from a sweating out at the Glandules of the Larynx with which its Tunic is clothed within to wit when the openings of the Arteries are too much Relaxed or from some great Vessels that are broke or out of the little Bladers of the Lungs themselves Haemorrhagia is a Flux of Blood at the Nostrils Mouth or Eyes Haemorrhoides are swelling Inflamations in the Rectum or about the Fundament red and painful which sometimes send forth Blood or Matter Haemorrhoidis vena is a Branch of the Vena Portae the great Vein of all extending to the Rectum and the Fundament Halo is a red spot of flesh which surrounds each Nâ—pple in the Breasts Hama when a Dose is took off at once Harmonia is a joyning of Bones by a plain Line as may be seen in the Bones of the Nose and Palate Haustus or Potio is a Liquid Medicine taken inwardly made into one Dose of several Ingredients mixed with a suitable Liquor by Decoction Infusion or Dissolution to Purge alter or Sweat Hectica is a continued Fever arising from the very habit of the body and introduced in a long time and has so rooted it self into the very Constitution that it is infinitely difficult ever to Cure it for the most part it is accompanied with an Ulcer of the Lungs Leanness and a Cough Hedisma is any thing that gives Medicines a good scent Hegemonicae are the principal Actions in Human Body as the Actions Animal and Vital Helcydria are certain little Ulcers thick and red in the skin of the Head like the Nipples of Breasts which send forth Matter Helctica see Attrahentia Heliosis is a Sunning Helix is the Exterior brim of the Ear so called from its Winding The Interior is called Scapha Helminthes see Elminthes Helodes see Elodes Helos or Clavus is a round white callous swelling of the Foot like the head of a Nail and fixed in the Roots of the hard Skin of the Foot Haelesis is a reflexed inversion of the Eye-lid Hemeralopia or Acies Necturna is when one sees better in the Night than in the Day Hemicrania is an Head-ach in either part of the Brain Hemina Italica is a Measure containing half an Attic Sextarie and nine Ounces So much is a Cotyla Attica and a Cotyla Italica is Twelve Ounces Hemipagia the same that Hemicrania Hemiplegia is a Palsie on one side below the Head proceeding from an Obstruction in one part or other of the Spinal Marrow or from a blow whence it comes to pass that the Animal Spirits are Obstructed in their passage Hemiplexia the same that Hemiplegia Hepar the Liver is a Parenchymous Substance placed under the right side of the Diaphragme considerably thick and big in a Man it is clothed with a thin Membrane which proceeds from the Peritonaeum and is fastned to other parts with three strong Ligaments 1. To the Abdomen by the Navel-vein 2. Upwards to the Diaphragme by a broad thin Membranous Ligament on the right
an elegant Description of the Nerves which Willis has performed beyond any Man whatsoever Neuron the same that Nervus Neurotica are Remedies against the Diseases of the Nerves Neurotomia is an Anatomical Section of Nerves also a pricking of Nerves Neurotomus is one who is troubled with a pricking of the Nerves Or one who dissects them Anatomically Neuritica the same that Neurotica Nidrosa Dyspepsia see Dyspepsia Nidus the same that Focus Noctambulo or Noctambulus is one who walks in his Sleep opens Doors and Windows and goes over the highest and most dangerous Places without perceiving it The Cause of it is hardly to be given unless Sleep be divided into Total and Partial the Total is common ordinary Sleep but the Partial takes place in this case because that Objects are seen indeed and are offered to the common Sensory but penetrate not to the place of Imagination so that they may be perceived Nodulus Nodus is a Bag of suitable Ingredients as the Disease requires put into Beer or Wine the Tincture whereof the Patient is to drink Nodus the same that Ganglion and Nodulus Noli me tangere is a sort of Canker in the Face especially above the Chin. There arises a Tumour or Ulcer about the Mouth and Nose like an exulcerated Canker which grows slowly at the beginning like a little Pimple it remains a whole Year otherwise is less troublesome than a Canker which gnaws and eats more in one Day than a Noli me tangere doth in a Month. Nomas is a putrid Ulcer that feeds upon the parts Nosocomium is an Hospital for poor sick People where they are attended and cured if possible Nosologia the same that Pathalogia Nosos the same that Morbus Notae maternae the same that Naevius Nothae costae are the five lowest Ribs on each Side called Bastard Ribs so called because they do do not join with the Breast-Bone as other Ribs nor are as the others Boney but Cartilaginous Diseases are likewise called Nothi or Bastard which exceed the ordinary and common Rule as tertain quartane or quotidian Bastard Agues a Bastard Plurify c. Nothis is the Back the back part of the Chest Novacula is a Chirurgeons Knife the shape whereof differs according to the difference of Operations And therefore can hardly be described Nubeculae are little light Particles which mutually but loosely close with one another and swim upon the Urine Nucha is the hinder part or nap of the Neck called Cervix Nuciositas the same that Myopia Numero not only Fruits and Seeds are measured by Number but likewise the parts of Animals as Yolks of Eggs. It is commonly noted thus No or Num. Nutrimentum the same that Alimentum Nutritio is a natural Increase whereby that which continually decays of any corporeal Substance is repaired by convenient Nourishment Nux is a sort of Pain in the Head which afflicts a place about as big as a Nut as an Ovum a Clavus and other sorts Nychthemerum is four and twenty hours space Nyctalopia is two-fold the first is a Dimness of Sight in the Night or in dark Places without any Impediment in the Light The other is a Dimness in the Light and clear Sight in the Night or in Shades Nymphae are little pieces of Flesh in a Woman's Secrets So called because they stand near the Water that comes out of the Bladder Also the hollowness or void space in the nether Lip Nymphomania the same that Furor Vterinus Nymphotomia is a cutting off the Nymphae the too great Protuberance whereof in marriageable Virgins sometimes hinders the Enjoyment or at least renders it difficult The Egyptians cut them frequently O. OBelaea is the Sagittalis Suture in the Scull see Sagittalis which touches the Coronalis Suture forward and the Lamdoides backward for it is made of the mutual Conjunction of the Bones of the Forehead Oblatae Laxativae Purgantes are made of Meal with Sugar and purging Ingredients Oblivio Forgetfulness is a loss of the Ideas of Things once perceived out of the Brain Which happens when things make but a light Impression upon the Brain as a light Motion is scarce perceived so a light Impression easily decays Obolus is half a Scruple it weighs ten Grains Physitians mark it thus ∽ but now the Hollanders do not use this Character Obstructio is a shutting up of the Passages of the Body either by Contraction or by some forreign Body that has entered within them Occiput is the hinder part of the Scull Ochema is a Liquor or Vehicle wherewith Medicines are mixed Ochthodes are Ulcers whose sides are callous or of the nature of Warts but not malignant Oculares dentes the Eye-Teeth The same that Cynodontes Oculus the Eye is the external Organ of Sight it is compounded of six Muscles to wit of two Direct and as many Transverse to which a seventh is added in Brutes It has seven Tunics the Adnata Innominata Cornea Vvea Retiformis Chrystallina and Vitrea It has also the Optick Nerve the Iris and the Pupilla See them singly in their proper places Oculi are the forerunners of Flowers which are likewise called Gemmae Buds Odaxismus is the itching of the Gums when Children breed Teeth Odontagra see Forfex Odonthalgia is the Teeth-ach which is caused by black rotten Teeth or an Effervescence of fixed and acid Salt and therefore it is called the Gout in the Teeth Cold also will cause it Odontiasis the same that Dentitio and Odontophyia Odontica are Medicines against Pains in the Teeth Odontoides that which is like a Tooth as the Tooth of the second Vertebre and of other Bones Odontophyja breeding of Teeth Odoramentum is a Medicine applyed for its Smell It is compounded of Laudunum Storax Benzoin Musk Civet c. Odoratus the Smell is a Sence whereby odoriferous Effluviums are offered and represented to the common Sensory from the Motion and Irritation of Nerves implanted in the Membranes of the Nose Oeconomia is the management of Family-Concerns Oedema is sometimes taken in a large Sence by Hippocrates for any Tumor but strictly for a white soft insensible Tumor proceeding from pituitous Matter heaped up together It has no Pulse and yields easily to the Fingers It may proceed likewise in some measure from the Lympha or nutritious Juice extravasated and turned into a Gelly Oenoides is diluted Wine or a Liquor Analogous to Wine Oenomel is Wine and Honey Oesophagaeus is a Muscle that closes the Gullet called Sphincter Oesophagus the Gullet is a membranaceous Pipe reaching from the Palate to the Stomach whereby the Meat chawed in the Mouth and mixed with the Juice there passes to the Ventricle It has three Tunics the outermost or membranaceous Tunic which comes from the Peritonaeum or inner rine of the Belly and clothes the Ventricle The innermost is Musculous the whole Oesophagus seems to consist of two Muscles which with their opposite Fibres crossing one another make four Parallelograms The Third is
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
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
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
positive Opinion in few words Brachylogia is a curt expression as for instance the Aphorisms of Hippocrates Bradypepsta is slow digestion proceeding from a depraved disposition of the Acid ferment in the Stomach Branchus is a hoarsness in the Throat Bregma or Pregma is the bone of the Forehead Brochi are blubber lip'd persons also a sort of Chyrurgeons cord or halter Bronchocele is a Tumor in the top or the middle fistulous part of the Wind-pipe Bronchotomia is a Section of the Wind-pipe in a membranous part betwixt two of the Rings it is used to prevent suffocation in people troubled with a Quinsie Bronchus is the middle Fistulous part of the Wind-pipe whose fore-part is made up of so many little Rings the upper part is called Larynx and the under Vesicularis it is used in the voice and in respiration Bubo is the Groin or place from the bending of the Thigh to the Privy-parts also a Tumor in the Groins proceeding from the Pox or Pestilence Bubonocele is a Rupture when the Intestines fall into the Groin or the outermost skin of the Cods sometimes it is taken for a Bubo or Swelling Bucca is the inferior lax part of the Face that may be swoln or puft up as appears in Trumpeters Buccinator is the round Muscle of the Cheeks like a Circle thin and membranous interwoven with various Fibers and inseparably girt about with the Tunic of the Mouth Casserius has observed a certain strong band that grows outwardly in the Center of this Muscle which spreading it self about the Cheek-bone is terminated in a little slender Muscle directly opposite to that part of the Face called Bucca it arises from the upper Jaw-bone and is fastned in the lower at the Roots of the Gums It s use is to move the Cheeks with the Lips and serves as a hand to the Teeth whilest it tosses the Meat to and fro and throws it upon the Teeth that it may be more exactly chawed Buccula is the fleshy part under the Chin. Bulimia the same with Bulimus Bulimiasis the same that Bulimus Bulimus signifies an extraordinary Appetite often accompanied with a defection of Spirits it proceeds sometimes from a too sharp Ferment of the Stomach whence the Membranous Tunics and Nerves being irritated the Animal seeks after Nourishment for a remedy C. CAcatoria febris is an intermittent Fever so called by the famous Sylvius de le Boe accompanied with a violent Purging which is sometimes griping and very painful extreamly afflicting and weakning the Patient when it comes Chachecticus is one that has an ill Habit of Body Cachexia is an ill Habit of Body proceeding from an ill disposition of the Humours of the Body whence lingring Fevers Consumptions and Dropsies are contracted in this Disease the Face is often pale and discoloured and the Body big and swoln Cachexia taken in a large sense is opposed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as a good Habit of Body is common to all sound parts so an ill one is propagated by all the ill parts Strictly Cachexia is onely taken from an ill disposition of the Habit of the Body and Euexia on the contrary for a good disposition of the Humors or Blood and Body Cacochymia is the abundance of ill Humors in the Blood and it is either Ulcerous Bilious Pituitous Melancholic Acid Salt or Sharp Cacoethes Chironium ulcus or Telephium is a Disease or Ulcer beyond Cure which is called Malignant Ulcer this happens when an Ulcer is callous or sinuous under which there sometimes lie little putrified bones that have fallen down Cacophonia is an ill voice proceeding from an ill constitution of Organs Cacotrophia is an ill Nutriment proceeding from a fault in the blood as in a Leprosie Ring-worms c. Caducus morbus see Epilepsia Casarea sectio the same with Hystertomotocia Calamus Scriptorius is a certain Dilatation about the fourth Ventricle of the brain which is afterwards pointed from which shape it has its Name Calcaneus is the same with Calx Calchoidea are three little bones in the Foot which with others make up that part of the Foot which succeeds the Ancle and Fallopius calls them Cuneiformia made like Wedges Calcinatio is the solution of a mix'd body into powder by fire or any coroding things as Mercury Aquafortis c. Caldarium the same with Laconicum Calculus the Stone is an hard praeternatural concretion in a Mans body which is often bred in the Reins Testicles and other parts from Saline and Earthy Particles concreted together Calidum innatum see Emphitum thermum or Biolychnium Callicreas or Pancreas is a conglomerated Glandule placed under the hinder part of the Ventricle about the length of three or four fingers in a Man it is clotted with a thin Membrane from the Peritonaeum it is terminated in Man near the common Ductus or Passage of the Bile into the Gut duodenum and distils a volatile insipid sort of a juice but Sylvius de le Boe and de Graaf affirm That they have found an Acid and a somewhat Acid juice there nay sometimes an austere and a sweet one thence also they bring the Original of all Diseases but we must know that this possibly was observed when scarce one in twenty which they dissected was found exactly sound Concerning this question see my Anat. of things l. 1. c. 21. It s use is to temperate the Chyle which is something Acid and the bitterness of the Gall with its Volatile Juice that is may at last enter the Lacteals with a sweet taste Callus is a kind of swelling without pain like Skin contracted by too much labour Calor nativus see Biolychnium Calva is the Scull also the upper hairy part of the Head which either by Disease or old Age grows Bald first Calvaria the same with Calva Calvitium is that Baldness which is naturally incident to old Age. Calx is the second Bone in that part of the Foot which succeeds the Ancle bigger and stronger than the rest oblong and grows backward that a man may stand more strongly upon it and not fall so easily backward Calx also is that which by Calcining is either turn'd into Alcool as Calx Saturni or at least is made friable as Harts-horn burnt Camarium see Fornix Camarosis is a blow upon the Scull whereby some part of the Bone is left suspended like an Arch. Cambium is a secundary humour according to Avicen which yet is reckoned amongst the Humours and its use was said to be to nourish the parts the first was called the nameless humour the second Glew and the fourth which was very near converted into Nourishment was called Cambium but these figments are quite Exploded since we found out the Circulation of the Blood by the Fibres Cameratio the same with Camerosis Capulum is the Contortion of the Eye-lids or its Hairs Canales are passages by which the Juices of the Body flow as those which serve for the Spittle the Bile that in the
vellicates the AEsophagus Lympha is a clear limpide Humour consisting of the nervous Juice and of Blood which being continually separated by the Glandules is at last discharged into the Blood again by Vessels peculiar to it The Lympha comes not immediately from the Blood or nervous Juice as some think but it is the Superfluity of each which was more than enough for the Nourishment of a part like the Marrow in Bones It is taken sometimes for that Water which flows from the Pricking of Nerves and other Wounds and which does not really flow from the Nerves themselves but from the Lymphatick Vessels which are cut and wounded Lymphatica vasa see Venae Lymphaticae Lynx the same that Lygmus Lyteria is a sign of the loosening of a great Disease M. MAcrocosmus is the whole Universe Macula epatica is a Spot of a brown or of a sad yellow Colour about an hand 's breadth broad chiefly seizing upon the Groins the Breast and back nay sometimes it covers the whole Body is attended with a certain sleight Asperity of the Skin which lets fall Scales or a sort of Dendriff from it which yet do not stick altogether but are disseminated here and there and sometimes disappear sometimes break out again Macula Matricalis is a spot with which a Child is born of brownish Colour Macula volaticae is a red or purple Spot here and there in the Skin which if it touch any Orifice in the Body as the Mouth Nostrils Eyes Ears c. and pierce so far it becomes mortal fatal to Children Madarosis is a Baldness of the Head Magdaleones are pieces of Plaister made up in form of a Cylender Magisterium properly signifies a Powder prepared by Solution and Precipitation improperly a resinous Matter made the same way which is more truly called an Extract Magisteria as they are various so are they variously prepared a solvent Liquor is always poured upon a dry Matter reduced to durst if it can be had or if necessary calcined which is different according to the Diversity of the Magisterium plain or distilled Vinegar both by it self and sharpened with Spirit of Nitre Vitriol Salt c. These are only in Minerals and Animals a Lixivium prepared of Salt of Tartar and Water in Vegetables Spirit of Wine in things sulphureous that is endued with an oily part Yet these things belong rather to Extracts There is a precipitating Liquor poured upon dissolved Bodies commonly Oil of Tartar per deliquium Urine salt Water Spirit of Vitriol Nitre c. in Minerals and Animals common Water or Allum-water in Vegetables and there will subside at the bottom of the Glass a coagulated Substance which must be dried and if necessity require first sweetened and then burned Magistralia medicamenta are those Medicines which Physicians use to prescribe in the Shops for several uses they are commonly called usualia usual because they ought to be used frequently once a Week twice a Month or the like Magma signifies the Dregs that are left after the streining of Juices Malacia is a depraved Appetite which covets those things which are never eat Also a Tenderness of Body Malactica or Emollientia are those things which soften parts with a moderate Heat and Moisture by dissolving some of them and dissipating others Malagma was the same with our fore-Fathers as Cataeplasma Malagma the same that Malacticum Malignus Morbus a malignant Disease is that which rages more vehemently and continues longer than its Nature seems to pretend to as a pestilent Feaver c. Malleus is one of the four little Bones in the Ear. Malleus pedis see Malleolus Malleolus or Malleus is twofold external which is the lower Process at the foot of the Bone of the Leg called Fibula Or internal which is the lower Process of the Bone of the Leg called Tibia these make the Ancle Malthacode is a Medicine softened with Wax Malum mortuum the dead Disease is a sort of Scab so called because it makes the Body appear black and mortified It is accompanied with Colours black and blew and with a crusty sort of Pimples black and filthy but without Matter Sense or Pain It infects the Hips and Legs especially Mamma Mammilla Vber the Breast Dugs c. the Grammarians call the inner part Vbera and the outward Protuberances Mammae A Breast or Dug is a globous white and soft Body laying upon the pectoral Muscle on both sides made up of conglomerated Glandules in the in-side by the mediation whereof the Milk is separated from the arterious Blood and is conveyed out by very little Pipes which pass through the Nipples Mammiformes processus are two Apophyses of the Bone of the back part of the Scull Mammilla the same that Mamma Mandibula Maxilla the Jaw is either upper or lower The upper is made of twelve Bones on each side six The first is at the external corner of the Eye which joyned with the fore-process of the Bone of the Temples produces the jugal Bone The second constitutes the inner corner of the Eye has a large Passage in it by which the superabundant Moisture of the Eye descends to the Nostrils The third is within the circle of the Eye interposed betwixt the other two The fourth the greatest of all makes the greatest part of the Cheeks and the Palate and is elaborately carved for the Reception of the Teeth The fifth helps to make the Nose The sixth with another Bone along with it terminates the extremity of the Palate And all these are joined rather by a plain Line than by Sutures The lower Jaw at riper Years grows into one continued Bone extream hard and thick and consequently very strong It has two Processes one acute called Corone the other in the form of a little Head called Condylus It has two Holes within and as many without which make way for the Nerves the under Teeth are implanted in it and it is joynted with the inner side of the Bone of the Temples called Os petrosum Mania a sort of Madness is a deprivation of Imagination and Judgment with great Rage and Anger but without a Feaver and Fear It proceeds from sulphureo-saline Animal Spirits like Aqua stygia which cause strange furious Impulses in the Body not by consent of Parts but by their own Strength Manica Hypocratis is a woollen Sack in form of a Piramide wherewith Aromatick Wines Medicines and other Liquors arestreined Maniodes is a Phrensy like the Madness which is meant by Mania Manipulus is a dry Measure usual with Physicians in their Prescriptions for it is a determinate quantity to wit as much as can be held in one hand meant for the most part of Herbs Fasciculus is a different quantity from Manipulus an handful for it properly signifies an arm-full Manus Christi is a sort of Sugar so called because it is put into Cordials for very weak People Marasmodes is a Feaver which at last ends in a Consumption Marisca the same
which goes down the middle of the Back by the Vertebres and is terminated at the Os sacrum it is also of the same nature and use with the Brain it is a Coagmentation of Nerves and has the use of them upwards it is forked hence if either party be obstructed there arises a Palsy of one side It sends out thirty pair of Nerves on each side to the Limbs great Cavities and other parts of the Body If it be washed with a convenient Liquor it t will sever into a great many little Fibres Megalosphlanchnus is one who has great swelling Bowels Mela is a Chyrurgeons Instrument called Specillum the vulgar call it Tenta a Tent from trying It is made for the most part of Silver or Ivory and that to probe Ulcers or to draw the Stone out of the Yard c. It is of different Shapes according as it is differently used Melanagoga are Medicines that expel black Choler Melancholia is a Sadness without any evident Cause whereby People fancy terrible and sometimes ridiculous things to themselves It proceeds from the Degeneracy of the Animal Spirits from their own spirituous saline Nature into an Acide like the Spirit of Vitriol Box-tree Oak c. Also it is called black Choler or black Blood Adust and Salino-sulphureous Melas see in Alphus Meliceri is a Tumour shut up within a Tunick proceeding from matter like Honey without Pain round yielding if pressed but quickly returning again It seems to proceed from Lymphatick Particles which do not circulate right and which when the Moisture is evaporated leave a honyish-kind of Substance Melicratum is a Drink made of one part Honey and eight parts Rain-water Membrand is a nervous fibrous broad plain white and dilatable Substance which covers the Bowels the great Cavities of the Body the Muscles c. and is endowed with an exquisite Sense Membrana carnosa the same that Panniculus carnosus Membrana Vrinaria the same that Allantois Membrum a Member is an organical Body made up of several similar parts designed for the performance of voluntary Actions Memoria Memory is the retention of Marks or Footsteps impressed in several places in the barky Substance or folding Fibres of the Brain by the motion of Objects Memory resides in the substance of the Brain called Corticalis like Bark Mendosa Sutura or Squammea is a scaly Connexion of Bones as may be seen in the Bone of the Temples and the Bone of the fore part of the Head Meningophylax is that which preserves the Meninx or Membrane of the Head as thin Gold or Silver Plates which are applied when the Skull is opened Meninx see Mater dura tenuis Mensa is the broader part of the Teeth called Grinders which chaws and minces the Meat Menses the Courses are Excretions of Blood every Month from the Womb and not from its Neck or Passage called Vagina The cause thereof consists in a fermentative Matter generated in the Substance of the Womb or a seminal Matter infused into the Blood from the Testicles or Ovaria in a Woman which being mixed with the mass of the Blood ferments it into such a motion that it is forced to discharge it self every Month. They begin usually when young Maids grow ripe at twelve or fourteen but cease naturally in Women with Child past Children and those that give suck Menstrua alba see Fluor albus Menstruum Mulierum see Menses Menstruum is that which is to be distilled or a Liqour which corrodes Metals and dissolves Stones as Vinegar Aqua fortis Spirit of Wine c. It may be taken also for the Caput mortuum which is left after Distillation Mentagra is a sort of wild Tetter or Ring-worm which was not known in Claudius's days Mesaraeum the same that Mesenterium whence its Vessels are called as well Mesaraick as Mesenterick Mesaraica vasa see in Mesaraeum Mesenteria vasa see Mesaraeon Mesenterium is the Membrane of the Peritonaeum doubled enriched with Glandules Nerves Arteries Veins Chyliferous and Lymphatick Vessels it is in the middle of the Abdomen and contains the Intestines in a wonderful manner It has a great Glandule in the middle called Pancreas Asellis about which are several other less Glandules to which the milky Vessels of the first rank tend from the Intestines and Lymphatick Vessels from the Liver and other Parts from these Glandules again the milky Vessels of the second rank ascend to the Vessel that carries the Mass of Chyle and discharge themselves into it Meseraeum see Mesaraeum and Mesenterium Mesocolon is that part of the Mesentery which is continued to the great Guts Mesonuctium is the middle of the Night Mesopleurii are the intercostal Muscles twenty two on each side eleven external and as many internal Metabole is a change of Time Air or Diseases Metacarpus and Metacarpium is the back of the Hand made of four oblong little Bones which expand the Palm of the Hand and they are called Post-Brachialia Metacondyli are the utmost Bones of the Fingers Metalepticus is a Metaleptick Motion of the Muscles Metallum Mettal is a solid rigid Substance found in Mountains and subterraneous Cavities The several sorts of them are comprehended in this Verse Sol Mars Luna Venus Saturnus Jupiter Hermes Gold is the most solid Metal the Tincture whereof is highly extolled by the Chymists Metallurgus or Metallicus is one who searches after Metalls as the Chymists Metapedium the same in the Foot that Metacarpus is in the Hand Metaphrenum is that part of the Back which comes after the Diaphragme Metaptosis is the degenerating of one Disease into another as of a Quartane Ague into a Tertian and on the contrary of an Apoplexy into a Palsy c. Metastasis is when a Disease goes from one part to another which happens to Apoplectick People when the Matter which affects the Brain is translated to the Nerves Metasyncrisis is the Operation of the Medicine externally applied which fetches out the Humours from their closest Recesses Metatarsus are the five little Bones of the Foot connected to the Bones of the first part of the Foot which immediately succeeds the Leg. Methodica Medicina is that which was invented by Themison Laodiceus and improved by Thessalus Trallianus who said that the Art might be learned in six Months time Methodus is a part of Physick whereby Remedies are found out by Indications for the Restauration of Health Metopum is the Fore-head Metrenchyta is an Instrument wherewith Liquors are injected into the Womb. Miasma is a contagious Infection in the Blood and Spirits as in the Plague and Scurvy Microcosmus Man is called the little World as a Compendium of the greater Microphthalmus is one who has little Eyes from his Birth Miliaris herpes see Herpes Miserere mei or Chordapsus is a most vehement Pain in the Guts proceeding from an Inflammation of them or Involution and the peristaltick Motion inversed whence the Excrements are discharged by the Mouth It is
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
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
the brain by the mediation or continued motion of the animal spirits in the same nerves Aisteterium is the common sensory which Cartesius and others his Abettors make the glandula pinealis but the common sensory ought rather to be placed where the Nerves of the external senses are terminated which is not in the glandula pinealis but as the most ingenious Willis has demonstrated about the beginning of the medulla oblongata or top of the spinal marrow in the Corpus striatum Alae signifie the sides of the Nose the little sins as it were of the nymphae or the lips of a Womans private parts the upper part of the ear the Arm-pits and the process of the bone Sphenoides Alantoides see Allantoides Albaraâ—nigra see lepra Graecorum Albaras alba see Leuce Albuginea oculi is a white tunic of the Eye which proceeds from the pericranium grows to the tunica cornea and leaves a hole forward for the opening of the Apple of the Eye see tunica adnata Albuginea testis is the membrane which immediately involves the testicles Albugo oculi is the same with album oculi the white of the Eye it signifies also a white speck in the tunica cornea which proceeds either from humours or a scar or ulceration Album oculi is that part of the Eye where the tunica adnata and the albuginea grows to the tunica sclerotes Albumen oculi or albugo the same with album oculi Alcali is all such Salt as is extracted from the ashes of any substance by a boiled lixivium or Lie proper for any thing liquid as well as solid 'T is said to borrow its name from the herb Kali with whose Salt the Egyptians as well as we make glass Alchymia is the same with Chymia Alcohol is the purer substance of any thing separated from the impurer it signifies also most subtil and refined dust and sometimes a most highly rectified Spirit in so much that if it be set on fire it shall burn all away without any dregs or phlegm at the bottom Alcol the same with Alcohol Alcool the same that Alcohol Alembicus or Alembicum is a Chymical Instrument used in Stilling It has the shape of an helmet concave within and convex without and towards the bottom is placed a beek or nose about a cubit long by which the vapours descend if they be made without a nose they are rather used in circulatory vessels they are made of Brass Pewter or Glass Alexipharmacum is a medicine which expels poyson so that it shall not be hurtful to the Body they are most commonly such things as attenuate the Blood that it cannot be coagulated with Poyson in the Air as Acids Alexiterium is a remedy which preserves the Body that it take not Poyson Algema Pain is a sad troublesome Sensation impress'd upon the Brain from a smart Vexatious irritation of the Nerves it arises from either a sensible or insensible solution of the Continuum Algematodes the same with Algema Alhasef the same with Hydroa Alkahest signifies an universal Menstruum or liquor which resolves Bodies into their first matter still preserving the virtues of their seeds and essential form a thing of great fame if of equal virtue which every one estimates according to his success in the Operation Some take it for prepared Mercury others for Tartar Aliformes processus are the prominencies of the Os Cuneiforme from the fore part Alimentum is a Body so convenient for and adapt to the nature of an animal that it may be digested by its heat and fermentation and assimilated into its own nature and it is either Meat or Drink Upon the account of its different degrees it is taken three ways by Hippocrates one is for future nourishment which passes from the Mouth into the Ventricle or stomach another is for that which is as it were nourishment and that is the arterious Blood and animal Spirits The third is true or proper nourishment that which fastens to the parts and at last is assimilated into their nature Alindesis is an exercitation of the Body wherein people first anointed with Oil were wont afterwards to rowl themselves in the dust Alipasma is a small dust which mixt with Oil is used to be soaked into the Body to hinder sweating Alitura is the action of a live Body whereby the perpetual waste of Blood Spirits and substance is as continually repaired by the accession of new nutritious juice rightly prepared and fermentated and then stuck upon the parts that are to be nourished Allantoides is the urinary tunic placed betwixt the Amnion and the Chorion which by the Navel and Urachus or passage by which the Urine is conveyed from the Infant in the Womb receives the urine that comes out of the Bladder 'T is called likewise Farciminalis because that in many brutes 't is of the shape of a gut-pudding but in man and some other few animals it is round and like the thin soft skin which wrappeth the Child in the Womb. Allioticum is a Medicine which by Fermentation and cleansing alters and purifies the Blood boiled up for the most part of the root of Sow-thistle Cichory Fennel Endive Lettice c. Allogotrophia is a disproportionate nutrition when one part of the Body is nourished disproportionately to another Alopecia is a shedding of the Hair occasioned by the Pox or otherwise So called from a Fox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose Urine is said to make places bald and barren for a year as the Scholiast of Callimachus observes or from a disease peculiar to a Fox It is called likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the figure because that the parts smooth and destitute of Hair look winding like a Serpent in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It s common to both these Distempers that the hair falls of Areatem by shedding whence in general this Disease is called Area Alphus is described by Celsus to be a Distemper wherein the white colour of the skin is somewhat rough but not continued like so many several drops Sometimes it disperses it self wider and with some intermissions Alphus is likewise called morphaea it differs from Leuce in that it penetrates not so deep Alterantia the same with Alliotica Alteratio is a depuration or a preparation and expurgation of the Blood by breathing a Vein or purging Alvearium is the cavity of the inward Ear near the passage which conveys the sound where that yellow and bitter excrementitious stuff is bred Alvi fluxus the same with Diarrhaea Amalgamatio is the corrosion of metal by Mercury Amaurosis is a dimness of sight whether the object be placed near or at a distance but so that no external fault appear in the Eye if you inspect it never so narrowly the defect consists in the obstruction of the optick nerve it is called also gutta serena Ambe is a superficial jutting out of the Bones also a Chyrurgeons Instrument with which disjointed Bones are set again Amblotica are Medicines which make