called also Volvulus Mitella is a Swathe that holds up the Arm when it is hurt or wounded Miva is the Flesh or Pulp of a Quince boiled up with Sugar into a thick Consistence Mixtura is a solid or liquid Substance mixed together of several Medicines Mixtures are very different according to the scope of the Physician they are taken especially in Drops or Spoonfuls and sometimes in Draughts They are made either of Liquors only such as are distilled Waters Spirits and Oils any way mixed together as Waters with Waters Oil with Oil Waters with Spirits c. or of Liquors with convenient Syrups Pouders Consections Opiates all of them together or only some Mna or Mina an Attick Mna contains an hundred Drams or twelve Ounces and an half the Roman ninety six Drams or twelve Ounces the Alexandrian an hundred and sixty Drams or twenty Ounces Modiolus Trepanum or Anabaptiston is an Instrument which they use in profound Corruptions Contusions Cuts and Fractures of Bones not easily tho to be applied unless 1. The Chips and Prominences of the Bones prick 2. When the upper Table is entire but depressed and the lower broken 3. When the extravasated Blood would choak a Man with Corruption The manner of perforating is thus When the Hairs are shaven off the Skin is to be cut to the Pericranium avoiding as prudently as may be the Muscles of the Temples and the Sutures and for this time the Wound is to be bound up unless there be so little Blood spilt that the Membrane called Pericranium may at the same time be pulled off from the Scull Then after a few Hours you may stop the Ears of the Patient and take one of these Instruments called a Masculine Modiolus whose point is to be fixed in the Skull but so far off the Fracture that it touch it not much less the Suture with its Teeth tho some never avoid the Sutures and assure us that they have perforated them as successfully as any other part Then hold the Instrument fast with the left-hand and turn it round with the right till you have cut out a pretty deep Circle After this take a Feminine Modiolus which has no point in the middle and turn it round as before In the mean time take away the Dust that proceeds from the Perforation and moisten the Instrument in Oil and Water to make it cool and slippery The Blood that appears with shew that you are now gone as deep as the second Table i. e. beyond the Scull to the Meninx and then you must press very gently lest the Membrane of the Brain be unadvisedly hurt when the Bone begins to wag put something in betwixt the sides of the Wound loosen it and take it out with a pair of Chirurgeons Pincers Mola Patella or Rotula is a round and broad Bone at the joynting of the Thigh and Leg where the Knee excepting this Bone is begirt with a Membranous Ligament Mola carnea is a fleshy and sometimes a spungy Substance without Bones or Bowels it is often black like concreted Blood and sometimes extream hard preternaturally brought into the World instead of a Faetus Molares or Maxillares Dentes see Dentes Mollientia see Emollientia Melopes Vibices Enchymoma Sugillationes all signify the same thing red Spots like those which remain in the Skin after beating in malignant and pestilential Fevers Molynsis the same that Miasma Monocolum is the Gut Caecum Monohemera are Diseases that are cured in one day Monopagia see Monopegia Menopegia is a sharp Pain in the Head afflicting one single place Mons Veneris is the upper part of a Woman's Secrets something higher than the rest Morbilli the Meazles are red Spots which proceed from an aerial Contagion in the Blood they neither swell nor are suppurated and differ only in degree from the Small-pox Morbus a Disease is such a Constitution of Body as renders us inapt for the due performance of our Actions Or it is an ill Constitution in a Man which hurts any of our Faculties according to Sylvius de le Boc Diseases are two-fold either from an ill Conformation or an Indisposition An ill Conformation is six-fold for it sonsists in Number Magnitude Figure Cavity Surface and Situation Indisposition is either occult or manifest the Occult is poysoned contagious and pestilent the Manifest s either simple as hot cold moist dry c. or compound when more Qualities than one are peccant at once as cold and moist hot and moist c. There 's a Disease by Idiipothia peculiar to ones self by Protopathia when one has it first by Deuteropathia at second hand and by Sympathy Also Diseases are simple or compound gentle or malignant short long acute continued intermittent hereditary native Pituitous bilious melancholy Summer Winter Autumnal Epidemick c. Morbus Regius the same that Icterus Moretum is a sort of Drink which our Women use much when they think they have conceived for they are perswaded that it spoils a false Conception and strengthens a true one It is so called from the Mulberries they put in it Moria Dulness or Folly or Stupidity is a defect of Judgment and Understanding it proceeds chiefly from lack of Imagination and Memory Morosis the same that Moria Morphaea the same that Alphus Morselli the same that Morsuli Morsuli Tabellae they are Medicines of a square Figure for the most part made of Powders and the like mixed with Sugar dissolved and poured upon a wooden stone or brazen Table to be consolidated Morsus canis rabidi the same that Cynanthropia Mortariola are the Caverns wherein the Teeth are lodged Morum the same that Pladarosis Motos is a peice of Linnen teezed like Wool which is put into Ulcers and stops a Flux of Blood Motus Peristalticus see Peristalticus Muccus the same that Mucus Mucago is a viscous Extraction made of Seeds Gums Roots c. with Water Mucilago the same that Mucago Mucro cordis or Apex is the lower pointed end of the Heart Mucronatum os see Ensiformis Cartilago Mucus we call it Snot is a liquid thick and viscous Excrement which flows from the Processus Papillares by the Os Cribriforme to the Nostrils and Palate Muliebria see Cunnus Muscae caput the same that Myocephalum Musculus a Muscle is an organical part furnished with two Tendons and a fibrous or fleshy Belly or middle part Its Office is to move the Members that are contiguous to it This Motion or Contraction is performed by the flowing of the Animal Spirits from the Brain to the Tendons by the Nerves and thence to the middle of the Muscles where they contract them and when that is done recede to the Muscles again The Antients divided the Body of a Muscle into the Head Belly and Tail in which division they called the Extremity of the Muscle connected to that part towards which the Contraction was made the Head the end or part of the Muscle inserted into that part which was
altogether Nervous which is covered on the inside with an hairy sort of Coat and which may pass for a fourth Tunic Oesypus the Filth and Greasiness of Sheep proceeding of Sweat and cleaving fast to their Wooll Therefore they are mistaken who take it to signify the little Clods of Dung that stick to their Wooll Olecranum or Ancon is the greater Process of the first Bone of the Cubit called Vlna Also the upper part of the Shoulder Olecranus the same that Anconaeus Olfactus the same that Odoratus Oligophoros is a small Wine with few Spirits Oligotrophia is a Decrease of Nutrition Oligotrophus is Meat that nourishes little to which is opposed Polytrophus that which affords much Nourishment Omentum Reticulum the Cawle is a double Membrane spread upon the Intestines interwoven with Fat and Vessels like a Fisher's Net enriched also with two or three Glandules annexed to the Stomach the Gut Colon and the Pancreas and useful to cherish the Intestines with its warmth It hath some milky and Lymphatic Vessels as also a great many Ductus's and little Bags of Fat concerning which see our Reformed Anatomy Omoplata and Homoplata the same that Scapula Omphalocele is a Rupture about the Navel to wit when the Cawle or Intestines are protuberant in that part Which happens from a Relaxation or bursting of the Peritonaeum the inner rine of the Belly Omphalos see Vmbilicus Onyx see Vnguis Ophiasis is when the Hairs grow thin and fall off here and there so that they leave the Head spotted like a Serpent Opthalmia is an Inflammation of the Tunics of the Eyes proceeding from arterious Blood collected and extravasated there because it cannot return by the Veins Opiata or Electuarium is a Medicine taken inwardly of a consistence like to those Opiates in the Shops Triacle or Mithridate and is made up into several Doses of several Ingredients mixed with Honey or Syrup Opiatum is a Medicine in form of an Electuary with Opiate mixed in it As Triacle Mithridate Dias-Cordium c. Opiologia is a Description of Opium Opisthotonus or Tetanus is a kind of Cramp or stretching of the Muscle of the Neck backwards which proceeds sometimes from a Palsy of the Muscles in the Neck whereupon the Antagonists or opposite Muscles move the intermediate parts too much or from a sharp and serous Matter in the Tendons or from the Animal Spirits which enter the Fleshy Pipes more than is usual and will not easily recede so that the parts are swelled and wrinkled up Opium is the condensed Juice of Poppies the purest Opium is made of white Drops Opticus Nervus or Visorius the Optic Nerve is that which carries the visible Species from the Eye to the common Sensory The Nerves of both Eyes proceed from the Thalami of the Optic Nerves afterwards these Nerves come together and as they enter the Scull separate again Optica are Medicines against Distempers of the Eyes Orchis is a Testicle whose Substance in Men is nothing else but a Contexture of very little Vessels which make the Seed But it is quite otherwise in Women where they are made of several Membranes and little Fibres loosely united to one another betwixt which several white Bodies are found which are there either naturally or preternaturally The Testicles of Women breed Eggs and therefore they are rightly called Ovaria They are also called Testes Colei Orchotomus is a Gelder One who gelds Animals that they cannot copulate Orexis is a Natural Appetite of Meat which proceeds from an acid Ferment in the Ventricles that comes from the Caeliac Arteries with which the nervous Tunic of the Stomach and its Nerves are extraordinarily moved to covet Nourishment Organum is a part which requires a right and determinate and sensible Conformation to its constitution and the performance of its Actions as an Arm Muscle Heart c. Orgasmus is an Impetus and quick Motion of Blood or Spirits as when the Animal Spirits rush violently upon the Nerves Oroboidcs is a subsiding in Urine like to a kind of Pulse called Vetches Orthocolon is a preternatural Rectitude of a Joint Orthopnaea is an ill Respiration when the Person affected cannot breathe but with his Neck erect Os a Bone is an hard dry and cold Substance consisting especially of earthy and saline Particles designed for the upholding of the Body to render its Motion easy and for a Fence for several parts Some make their Number 249 others commonly 304 and others as many as the Days of the Year Yet the number of them is uncertain because the Bones of Infants differ from those of Adult Persons Also because the Bones called Sesamoidea see them in their proper place and the Teeth are not determined to a certain number in old Men and Adult Persons They are of different Shapes some are round others plain acute obtuse hollow spungy solid oblong triangular c. A Nut-Shell is also called Ossiculum Oscitatio Yawning is a certain light convulsive Motion of Muscles which open the lower Jaw of the Face Some look upon it as a light Motion whereby Excrementitious and Halituous Matter which irritates the neighbouring parts is expelled Oscula are the openings of Vessels at the end Osculum uteri is the Cavity where Conception is made and the Mans Yard enters it is so small in Maids that it can only receive the bigness of a small Pen we use for Writing Tables and you cannot thrust your least Finger into it by any means the Courses flow out of it It sticks out in the Vagina and is like the Mouth of a Tench or as Galen will rather have it like the Nut of a Man's Yard it has a transverse cleft in Virgins 't is very small but grows bigger in Women who have had many Children if it be too much stretched or exulcerated covered over with a Scarr or too moist Barrenness follows thereupon Osteologia is a Description of Bones Osteon see Os. Ostocopi are Pains in the Bones or rather in the Membranes and Nerves about the Bones For Bones as such are insensible Otalgia is a Pain in the Ears whencesoever it proceeds Otenchyta an auricular Clyster Celsus calls it Oegin A little Syringe or Squirt which injects Medicines into the Ears Otica are Medicines against Distempers in the Ears Ovarium is a Womans Testicle Oviductus the same that Tuba Fallopiana Ovum is a sort of pain in the Head affecting a place about the bigness of an Egg. Oxelaeum is a mixture of Vinegar with Oyl Oxycratum is a mixture of Vinegar with Water called Pusca or Posca Oxydercica are Medicines which quicken the Sight Oxygala is sowre Milk Oxymel is a composition of Vinegar and Honey like a Syrup Oxyregmia is an acid sowre Belch from the Stomach Oxyrhodinum is Vinegar of Roses mixed with Rose Water or so ὈΣY NO'ΣHMA the same that Morbus acutus Ozoena is an Ulcer in the inside of the Nostrils that smells ill P. PAchuntica are Medicines of a thickning
Chyrurgia Chirurgery is an Art wherein by the help of our Hands or Instruments we endeavour to Cure Diseases Or it is a part of the Art Theraputic wherein Diseases are Cured by Incision Burning and Setting Joynts Or it is a Science which teaches the manner and way of Operation upon Living Human Bodies and it is five-fold tho others chuse rather to divide it into Four Parts 1. Synthesis a setting together of things separate 2. Diaeresis a separating of things that were continued before 3. Diorthosis a correcting of things squeezed together and contorted 4. Exeresis a taking away of Superfluities 5. Anaplerosis a Restoring of that which was Deficient Chirurgus one skilful in this art of Chirurgery Chlorosis or Morbus virgineus commonly Icterus albus seems to be a kind of Phlegmatick Pituitous Dropsie arising from an obstruction of the Courses want of Fermentation in the Blood and a Detention or Depravation of the Ferment in the Womb whereupon the Muscular Fibres being obstructed they become lazie and unfit for Action Choana is a sort of Cavity or Tunnel in the Basis of the Brain by which the serous Excrements are brought down from the Ventricles of the Brain to the Pituitary Glandulae also the Pelvis of the Reins of which in its proper Place Choenicis the same with modiolus Choenix is a sort of Measure containing two Sextaries which is Three Pints of our Measure Choeras the same with Scrophula Cholagoga are Medicines which purge Sulphureous and Bilious Humors as Rhubarb Senna c. Choledechus is the Ductus bilarius or passage of the Bile called Common wherein the Bile from the Bladder that contains it and the Ductus in the Liver is carried on to the Gut called Duodenum Cholera is a depraved motion of the Ventricle and the Guts whereby the Bilious Excrements are discharged in great plenty upwards and downwards the cause of it consists sometimes in the very Acrimonie of the Gall which meets and ferments highly with the juice of the Pancreas as sharp and Acid as it self Chondros see Cartilago Chondrosyndesmus is a Cartilaginous Ligament or the joyning of Bones by the intervention of a Cartilage Chorda the same that a Tendon Nerve or Gut of which in their proper place Chordapsus so Celsus calls it barbarously call'd Miserere mei by others Illiaca passio by others Volvulus commonly Ileus and it is an Ejection of the Excrements at the Mouth only proceeding from an Obstruction of Excrements from Wind Inflammation or Contortion or Convulsion of the Guts when the upper part of the Intestines are twisted with the lower or on the contrary whereupon the Peristaltic or Vermicular Motion of the Guts whereby the Excrements are Excluded becomes Inverted Chorea sancti Viti is a sort of Madness which formerly was very common amongst some People wherein the persons affected lay'd not down but ran hither and thither dancing to the last gasp if they were not forcibly hindred Horstius says That he hath spoke with some Women who paying an yearly visit to the Chappel of Saint Vitus which is near the City Ulme in Sweedland have been taken with such a violent fit of Dancing Night and Day together with a sort of Frantickness in the Mind that they fall together like so many people in Extasies and are sensible of little or nothing for a Year together till next May about which time they perceive themselves so tormented with a restlessness in their Limbs that they are forced to repair to the same place again about the Feast of Saint Vitus to Dance Chorion is the outward Membrane which with the rest of the Membranes and Humours contain the Faetus in the Womb. It is of an Orbicular Figure in Women and its upper part is annexed to the Placenta where it adheres to the Womb. Choroides is the folding of the Carotidal Arterie in the Brain wherein is the Glandula Pincalis It is also the Uvea Tunica which makes the Apple of the Eye Chromatismus is the Natural Colour and Tincture for Example of Urines Spittle Blood or Excrements Chronicus is a daily inveterate Distemper that has continued above forty days and a Quartane Fever a Consumption an Asthma Dropsie c. Chronius the same with Chronicus Chrysocer aunius pulvis is Aurum fulminans which is prepared of Gold dissolved in a Menstruum impregnated with Armoniac Salt infused in Oyl of Tartar the Calx is precipitated to the bottom which is sweetned and dryed for use Chus is a measure that contains four Sextaries or two Chaenices in our Measure six Pints Chylificatio is a Natural Action which makes Chyle Chylosis the same with Chylificatio Chylus Chyle is a white Juice in the Ventricle and Intestines proceeding from a light Dissolution and Fermentation of Victuals especially of their Sulphur and Salt with which Edible things abound and which by the Intervention of the Acid Humour in the Ventricle becomes white for if you pour an Acid upon any Liquor that is impregnated with Sulphur and Volatile Salt it presently turns Milkie as is obvious in preparing Milk of Sulphur or the resinous Extracts of Vegetables Nay Spirit of Harts-horn and of Soot abounding with Volatile Salt if it be Mixt with an Acid or but with plain Water grows to be of a Milkie Colour at last the Chyle after a Commixion and Fermentation with the Gall and the Pancreatic Juice either Volatile or Acid passing the Lacteal Veins c. is mixed with the Blood It is called in Latin also Chymus Chymetlon the same with Pernio Chymia or Chemia is a Resolution of Sublunary Bodies into their Elements and again a Coagulation of the same Elements into the Bodies which they constituted before in order to the preparation of Medicines more grateful more healthful and more safe there are two parts of it Solution and Coagulation by the addition of the Arabic Article 't is call'd Alchymia or Alkymia it is called also Spagiria Hermetica ars ars perfecti Magisterii ars Segregatoria Seperatoria and Destillatoria Chymica or Chymicalia are Medicines which the Chymists prepare that they may be taken in a less or more grateful quantity Chymicus is one skilful in the Art of Dissolving and Coagulating one skilful in Chymistry Chymosis or Chemosis is a Distortion of the Evelids by an Inflamation also an Inflamation of the Tunica Cornea in the Eye Chymus the same with Chylas Cicatrisantia are such things as by drying binding and contracting fill up Ulcers with Flesh and cover them with a skin Cicatrix Cicatrices Scars are Marks which are left after great Wounds or Ulcers some are simple others accompanied with a Cavitie Diminution or Excrescence in the part Affected Cilia and Supercilia are the Eye-brows hard Cartilaginous Bodies but Supercilia properly the hair upon the Eye-brows at the Extremity of the Forehead they are like two hairy Bulwarks or Ramparts to the Eyes to defend them from the sudden Incurse of any thing from the Head or otherwise Cion Columella
Coles see Penis Colica passio the Colic is a vehement pain in the Abdomen from an ill disposition of the Animal Spirits begun in the Nervous foldings of the Mesenterio and is sometimes falsly imputed to the Gut Colon. Others make this Disease to proceed from an Acid Pancreatic Juice others other ways but falsly Colla is Glue Colletica are Medicines that Conglutinate Colliciae are the joyning of the puncta Lachrymalia into one passage on both sides which derive the humour of the Eye-lids into the Cavitie of the Nostrils the holes that are made in the very tops of the Eye-brows descend in little Channels easily to be shown unless the bones of the Nostrils be so cautiously broken that the Tunics remain entire for after they have penetrated the Bones whither they are separated with a thin Membrane they spread themselves into a larger Channel and are continued to the Tunic of the Nostrils The same holes or openings in Sheep Hares Calves Rabbits are not found in the very Eye-brows but a little more inward and most of all in Birds where they are larger than in any other Creatures the Membrane which separates the holes here is very short Collutio is a washing of the Mouth when we scour loose Teeth the Gums or Ulcers Collyrium was once an Oblong Medicine which was taken in Distempers of the Eyes it is prepared in an Oblong sometimes an Orbicular Form and is dissolved in a convenient Vehicle for curing the Eyes Coloboma is a fault in the Lips Eye-lids Ears Nostrils and the like when one part either from the Nativity or by some accident grows to another which were either before actually loosned or at least ought to have been so Colon is the second of the great Guts it is thus situate it arises from the Caecum Intestinum in the right Flank and adheres to the right Kidney then it tends upwards under the Liver where sometimes it is annexed to the Bladder of the Gall which dyes it a Clayish Colour it goes on further transverse under the bottom of the Ventricle and on the left hand is joyned to the Spleen then again it is fastned to the left Kidneys where it winds and turns very obliquely and after that descends in a right Line it is commonly about Eight or Nine hand breadths in length but the widest and largest Gut of all it has a great many little Cells or Cavities in it a certain Ligament is twisted with it the breadth of the middle Finger about its middle upwards and then by reason of its largeness it is guarded with two strong Ligaments the one upwards the other downwards that it may be fastned to both the upper and under parrs about the beginning it has a Valve that looks upwards lest any thing should return from the great Guts into the small Colpus the same with Sinus Columella the same with Cion Colummanasi is the fleshie part of the Nose prominent in the middle near the upper Lip Columma oris the same with Cion Coma somnolentum is a deep sleep less than a Lethargie without a Fever wherein the Patient being awakned answers to any Questions propounded to him but falls into a profound Sleep again with his Mouth open and his under-Jaw fallen liker to one dead than alive It proceeds from an Obstruction of the Brain when the Serum has invaded the Tegument of the windings and foldings of the Brain and the little streaks of the Marrow that is included therein It is the same that Cataphora Coma vigil is a Disease wherein the Patients are continually inclined to Sleep but scarce can sleep being affected with a great drowziness in the Head a stupidity in all the Senses and Faculties and many times with a delirium too If the reason of these things be demanded we may solve them thus That the Pores and Passages of the Brains wherein the Spirits move are very much stuffed up with a thick Soporiferous Matter from the Blood whereby the Spirits being hindred from their usual Explosion and Commerce with one another seem to induce a profound and almost irresistable Drowziness upon the Person Affected but in as much as there are some sharp nimble Particles like so many Stings intermixed with the Spirits and which keep them in perpetual Motion therefore some of them still force their way and directly or obliquely as they can find a passage meet and exert and this Motion such as it is confused and wandring tho it do not perfect the compleat Exercise of the Animal Function yet easily interrupts its Rest so that persons thus Affected enjoy neither perfect day nor perfect night but live in a continual Twilight betwixt sleep and waking Comitialis morbus the same with Epilepsia Composita are Medicines made up of many simple Medicines as certain Waters Syrups Electuaries Opiates Trochies Ointments Plaisters c. Conarium or Glandula pinealis hangs in the folding of the Choroides in the Brain so called from the shape of a Cone It is seated betwixt the two beds of the Optique Nerves and the Prominences of the Nates We can scarce believe that this Glandulae is the seat of the Soul or that the Principal Faculties in a Man arise hence because that several Animals which are in a manner wholly destitute of the Prime Faculties of the Soul Imagination Memory c. yet have this Glandulae very fair and ample it ought therefore to be look'd upon rather as a Sensorie whence the Nerves arise to wit about the beginning of the Oblongated Marrow It s use is to receive and contain the Serous Humours which are Excerned from the Alterious Blood till either the Veins being emptied suck them again or else the Lympheducts if there be any at hand convey them away Yet the Learned F. Boyle doubts of its use when he says That it is not so easie to determine what its use is Since I have observed this Glandulae to be always impregnated with an apparent and pretty sharp saltness in several Brains of Men Oxen and Sheep I cannot but imagine that it separates some Volatile Humour from the Blood Analogous to a Volatile Armoniac Salt which being diffused upon the Trunc of the Spinal Marrow communicates some new Vigor to the Animal Spirits and hinders their Coagulation Concha is the winding Cavitie of the inner part of the Ear. Condensantia see Incrassantia Conditum is a composition of Conserves Powders Spices made up into the Form of an Electuarie with a convenient quantity of Syrup it is taken also for a Simple Medicine sweetned with Honey or Sugar as candid Ginger or Helicampane Condyloma is the knitting or joyning of Joynts Also a certain Tumor in the little skin of the Fundament an hard and Callous Swelling growing from black Humors that flow thither and rather troublesome than painful sometimes also it is accompanied with an Inflamation Condylie are the joynts and knuckles of the Fingers thicker thereabout the Joynts than in other places Confecta Confitures are things
place where a Fire is conveniently kept for Chymical uses and it is either open or covered Furor the same with Manea Furor Uterinus is an unseemly Distemper which is wont to seize upon Maids especially those of riper Years and sometimes Widows too They who are troubled with it throw off the Veil of common Modesty and Decency and Delight onely in lascivious obscene Discourses they covet a man greedily and even furiously and omit no inviting Temptations that may induce them to satisfie their desires The cause seems to be in the Seminal juice which being Exalted to the highest degree of Maturity drives the Maids into a kind of Fury which is conspicuous every year in some Bruits as in Cats Bulls Bucks Does Harts There is another Distemper akin to this which the Ancients called the Fervour of the Womb or the Matrix when the whole substance and body of the Womb is extream hot accompanied with a pain and heaviness of the Loyns a roughness by the growth of Hair Loathing and a suppression of the Urine and Excrements and the Woman all the while covets to be laid with but by reason of pain is still afraid of it Furunculus a Boyl is an acute swelling as big as a Pigeons Egg attended with an Inflamation and Pain especially when it begins to Corrupt and Putrifie when it is opened and the Matter let out part of the Flesh underneath is turned into Corruption of a whitish and reddish Colour which some call the Ventricle of the Furunculus there is no danger in it though you apply no Remedy to it for it ripens of it self and bursts but the pain makes it more Elegible to apply a Remedie because that frees the Patient sooner from his trouble Fusio is a melting with heat G. GAllactophori are Ductus's which carry Milk convey the Chyle as some Modern Authors have fancied a streight way from the Guts to the Glandules of the Breasts yet the Arteries were more properly so called because they carry the Chyle along with the Blood to the Breasts wherein Milk is reserved for the use of the Faetus Galactopoietice Facultas is nothing but an Aptitude to sequester Milk in the Breasts of the seParating of Milk See in the Word Lac. Galenica Medicina is that Physick which is built upon the Principles of Galen and therefore they are Galenists who embrace the Foundation of their Art which are fetched from Galen and the Philosophers proved by Reason and confirmed by Experience Galea is a pain in the Head so called from the likeness of the place because it takes in the whole Head like an Helmet in Latin Galea Galea is likewise when the Head of the Faetus is clothed with part of the Membrane called Amneos as it comes into the World Galreda or Gelatina Gellie is a Thickned Viscous and Lucid Juicie Substance it is commonly made of the Cartilaginous parts of Animals boiled as of Calves Feet c. Ganglion is an Humour in the Tendinous and Nervous parts procecding from a Fall Stroke or otherwise it resists if stirred if pressed upon its side is not diverted nor can be turned round Gangraena a Gangrene is a Cadaverous Corruption of a part attended with a beginning of Stink Blackness and Mortification Gargareon See Cion Gargarisma a Gargarisme is a Liquid Medicine which cleanses the Mouth and the Adjacent parts by Gargling without swallowing and it is either a Decoction wherein convenient Syrups are dissolved or distilled Waters mixed with Syrups and sometimes with Mineral Spirits Gastrocnemium is the Calf of the Leg whence its Muscles are called Gastrocnemii from their swelling like a belly Gastrocnemii Musculi see Gastrocnemium Gastroepiploica is the Vein and Arterie which goes to to the Ventricle and the Cawl Gastrorhaphia is a Connexion or a Suture in the wounds of the Abdomen Gaudium is a cheerfulness proceeding from the apprehension of some good obtained or to be obtained Gelatina is almost the same with Galreda but that is of a more general signification and is taken for any Pellucide Glutinous Juice which used first to be made of the juice of Fruits as of Apples c. as the Gellie of Quinces c. Gena Mala is part of the Face from the Nose to the Ears Also the Chin the Jaw-bone which is either upper or lower Generatio is a natural Action whereby an Animal begets another like it of the same Species of convenient Seed in Generation the first thing we see is a red Speck which is clothed with a little bladder next a little Heart whence Veins and Arteries flow at the Extremitie whereof you see the Viscera the Bowels c. afterward the whole Faetus is formed and cloathed with Membranes before Generation the Seed of the Male being cast into the Womb enters and prepares its Pores afterwards sweats out a Viscous Substance like the white of an Egg which moves the Egg out of the Testicles and Tubes for the Womans Eggs are impregnated by the influence of the Seed are emitted out of the Testicles and received by the Fallopian Tubes Genioglossum is a pair of Muscles proceeding inwardly from the Chin under another pair called Geniohyoyides and are fastned in the Basis of the bone Hyoides Geniohyoides are Muscles reaching from the internal and lower Seat of the Chin to the Basis of the Bone Hyoides which is placed at the Basis of the Tongue Gercomia is a part of that part of Physick called Hygieina or Preservation of health which teaches the way of living for old Men. Gingipedium the same with Scorbutus Gingiva the Gums is a hard spurious sort of Flesh which surrounds the Teeth like a Rampart and in people that want Teeth helps to the chewing their meat which being either eat out relaxed or too dry the Teeth shake or fall out Ginglymus is a Conjunction of Bones when the Head of one is received into the Cavitie of another and again the head of this into the Cavity of that Glacialis Humor see Humoris Oculi Glandula a Glandule is a Substance of a peculiar nature fleshie white or gray and Friable and it is two-fold adventitious as those Kernels which are sometimes under the Arm-holes and in the Neck the Kings Evil a swelling in the Larynx and middle of the Wind-pipe c. or perpetual and natural as the Thymus Pancreas Glandula Pinealis c. the perpetual is again Two-fold either Conglobated in one entire piece which sends the separated Humour into the Veins as the pituitarie Glandule the Pinealis the Glandules of the Mesenterie of the Groins c. or Conglomerated in a cluster which convey the juice by their own Channels into some notable Cavities of the body as the Pancreas the Glandules of the Breast the Salival Glandules c. Glandula Guidonis is a Tumor like a Glandulae soft single Movable without Roots and separate from the adjacent parts Glandula Pinealis see Conarium Glandula Pituitaria is a little body in the Sella Equina a
reason of the vehemency of the Fit or some external cause is excited to expel her Load unseasonably Such are the 3d 5 9 13 19. Intercidentes dies see Intercalares Intercus see Anasarca Inter for amineum the same that Perinaeum Intermissio febrium see Apyrexia Internuncii dies see Critici dies Intermittens morbus is a Disease which comes at certain times and then remits a little Intermittent Feavers or Agues proceed not from any fictitious Focus but only from a wrong Assimilation of the Chyle Inter scapularia are the Cavities betwixt the Shoulder-blade and the Vertebres Intertrigo or Attritus is an Excoriation of the parts near the Fundament or betwixt the Thighs or a Fleaing of the Skin proceeding from a violent Motion especially Riding It happens frequently to Children that the Cuticula in their Thighs and Hips is separated and as it were shaven off from the true Skin which pains them so that it makes them restless Intestina see Entera Involucrum cordis see Pericardium Jonthus or varus is a little hard callous swelling in the Skin of the Face Iris is that fibrous Circle next to the Pupil of the Eye distinguished with variety of Colours Isatodes is a blew Bile like the Herb Woad wherewith Cloth is died blew Ischaema are Medicines that stop the Blood which with a binding cooling or drying Virtue close up the opening of the Vessels or diminish and stop the Fluidity and violent Motion of the Blood Ischias is the Gout in the Hip. Ischium is the Hip or Huckle-Bone Ischophonus is a small Voice Ischuretica are Medicines which thicken the Blood in difficulty of Urine so that the Urine stops Ischuria is such a Suppression of Urine in the Bladder that little or nothing of it can be discharged Isthmus is that part which lies betwixt the Mouth and the Gullet like a Neck of Land Also the Ridg that separates the Nostrils Ithmoidea ossa see Ethmoides Itinerarium is a Chyrurgions Instrument which being fixed in the Urinary Passage shows the Neck or Sphincter of the Bladder that an Incision may be more surely made to find out the Stone Jugale os the same that Zygoma Jugularis vena is that Vein which goes towards the Scull by the Neck Jugulum the same that Furcula Julap see Julepus Julapium the same Julep see Julepus Julepus is a Liquid Medicine taken inwardly of a grateful taste and clear made of a convenient Liquor with Syrup or Sugar without any boyling and of the quantity of three or four Doses to alter or refrigerate A Julep consists commonly of one pound and an half of Barley-Water or of distilled Waters rarely of Wine of the cooling Syrup of red Goose-berries Berberies Violets c. to which they commonly add some drops of Sulphur Vitriol Salt c. to give it a good taste Juleb whence the word Julepus comes is a Persian word and signifies a sweet Potion L. LAbia leporina are such Lips as by reason of their ill make will not come together which some call rostra leporina Labyrinthus is a Body full of windings and turnings as may be seen in the inner part of the Ear and in the outer surface of the Brain Lac Milk is made by separating of Chyle from the arterious Blood by the Glandules of the Breast Milk begins to be made for the most part after the going with Young or a little before the Birth but it ceases in old Creatures in those with Young and in menstruous Persons Lacertus see Brachium Lachrymale punctum is an hole made in the Bone of the Nose by which the matter that makes Tears passes to the Nostrils if the hole grow hard and brawny from an Ulcer in one of the Glandules at the Corners of the Eyes thence arises a Fistula Lacrymalis Lachrymae are a moisture which is separated by the Glandules of the Eye to moisten the Eyes which if it be too much so that it cannot be received by the Punctum Lachrimale they fall from the Eyes and are called Tears Laconicum Caldarium and Assa or Balneum aereum was formerly a Cellar without any Water made to provoke Sweat which was done by an hot Vapour or a dry Heat included therein Lactea vasa see Vasa lactea Lactes some take for the Pancreas or for the Mesenterie others for the Milky Vessels Lactucimina the same that Aphthae Lactumia the same that Achores Lacunae are little Pores or Passages in the Vagina of the Womb but no where greater than in the lower part of the Urinary Passage There flows a certain serous pituitous matter out of these Ductus's which lubricitates the Vagina and is looked upon as Seed it flows out in a great quantity in the Act of Coition Lagochilus one who has cloven Lips see Labia leporina Lagophthalmus one who has Hares Eyes Lambdoides is the backward Suture of the Brain so called from its likeness to the Letter Λ Lambda Lanceta is a Chyrurgions little Knife streight pointed two-edged used in opening of Veins cutting of Fistula's opening of the Fundament Yard or Womb that is shut Laqueus is a Band so tied that if it be attracted or pressed with weight it shuts up close Its use is to extend broken or disjointed Bones to keep them in their places when they are set to bind the parts close together the differences of these Laquei or Bands are several having their Names either from the Inventors or from their Use or from their likeness to or shape of any thing or from the manner of lying or their Effect which unless they were here delineated can scarce be understood by a bare Description Laryngotomia the same that Bronchotomia Larynx Guttur according to Galen Larynx is properly the head or top of the Wind-Pipe which consists of five Cartilages The first pair is called Scutiforme like a Shield which constitutes the protuberance in the Neck called Adam's Apple The second pair is called Annular because it is round like a Ring The third and fourth Cartilage some reckon but one but if the Membrane be took off it appears to be two and is called Guttalis and Glottis The fifth is called Epiglottis which covers the opening of the Wind-Pipe at the top It s use is in the Voice and Respiration Lassitudo see Copos Lavamentum the same that Fotus Laudanum is meant only of a Medicine made of Opiate and that they call an Opiate Laudanum from its excellent Qualities Authors give several descriptions of it It allays the most unsupportable Pains and stops any Flux Laxantia loosening Medicines are those which with their benign Particles softning and scouring the Intestines cleanse them of their Excrements Lenientia the same with Laxantia Leno and Linon is that part of the Brain called Torcular Herophili that place where the third Cavity of the Meninx is joined to the first second and fourth Lentigines Freckles are little Spots especially in Women and chiefly in their Faces but sometimes in their Hands Arms and the