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
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
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
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
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
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