Praxis medicinæ reformata: = or, The practice of physick reformed Being an epitome of the whole art: wherein is briefly shewed, the true causes, signs, prognosticks, and cure, of most diseases. Published for the benefit of all persons. By Robert Johnson, Med. Professor.

An Interpretation of certain hard Words, which you shall meet with unexplained in this Treatise.

A.

• ABdomen, All that part of the Belly, which is between the Ribs and the Privy members, consisting of Skin, Fat and Mus∣cles.
• Abcess, an Impostume, or gather∣ing of ill Humours to one part of the Body, and there drawn to a Head.
• Abstersive, a cleansing Medicine.
• Acerbity, Sourness.
• Acid, eager, sour, or sharp.
• Acrimony, Sharpness.
• An acute Disease is a sharp Sick∣ness, which doth quickly either dispatch or deliver the Sick.
• Aetites, the Stone with Child, found in an Eagles-nest.
• Affected part, the part grieved, or distempered.
• Alchimy, the Art of melting or dissolving Metals, &c. and se∣parating the pure from the im∣pure.
• Alexiterion, Alexipharmacum, a preservative Medicine against Poison, and Infection.
• Amputation, the cutting off of a Member.
• Amulet, any thing hanged about the Neck.
• Anatomy, the Trunk of a dead Bo∣dy, from whence all the Flesh, Sinews, &c. is cut off, and no∣thing remaining but the bare Bones.
• Anodyne, appeasing Pain.
• Antidote, a Preservative against Poison and Infection.
• Antimonial, made of Antimony.
• Anus, the Fundament.
• Apertion, an Opening.
• Apophlegmatism, a Medicine which chewed, draweth Phlegm and other Humours out of the Head, and voideth them at the Mouth.
• Apoplexy, a general Palsie of the whole Body.
• Apozeme, a thin Decoction of Herbs.
• Aromaticks, Medicines made of Spice.
• Arteries, hollow Vessels, wherein the vital Bloud, and Spirits are contained, which causeth the Pulse, as you may feel at the Wrists, &c.
• Arthritick pains, the Gout or any other Pain of the Ioints.
• Aspera Arteria, the Wind-pipe.
• Astrictive, Astringent, which hath Power to bind.

B.

• BAlneo, Bath.
• Balsamick, Healing, of the Nature of Balsam.
• Bechical, easing the Cough.
• Bile, Choler.
• Bolus, a Lump, a Morsel.
• Bronchia, the Gristles of the Wind∣pipe.
• Bubo, a Sore about the Groin.

C.

• CAchexy, ill habit of Body.
• Cacochymy, ill Iuice in the Body.
• Calcinate, to burn into Ashes.
• Capillary, as small as a Hair.
• Carbuncle. a Plague-sore.
• Cardiack, Cordials.
• Cariosity, Rottenness.
• Carminative, that cleanseth the Body of Wind.
• Cartilage, a Gristle.
• Caruncle, a little Piece of Flesh.
• Catagmatical, Medicines to cure broken Bones.
• Cataplasm, a Pultess.
• Cataract, a Disease of the Eyes.
• Catarrh, a Rheum.
• Cathartick, a purging Medicine.
• Catheretick, a Medicine to con∣sume supersluous Flesh.
• Cauterize, to burn or sear.
• Cephalicks, Med. for the Head.
• Cerebellum, the little Brain.
• Chalybeate, red-hot Steel in any thing.
• Chylus, a white Iuice coming of the Meat digested in the Stomach.
• Cholagogue, a Medicine that pur∣geth Choler.
• Chronical, staying long.
• Coliries, Medicines for sore Eyes.
• Colliquation, a Dissolving.
• Coriza, a snottish Rheum.
• Crisis, Iudgment.
• Cuticula, the Scarf-skin.
• Cystick passage, the Passage of the Choler from the Gall.

D.

• DEfluction, a flowing down of Humours,
• Delirium, Dotage, Light-headed.
• Desiccative, a drying Medicine.
• Diaphragma, the Midriff.
• Diaphoretick, a sweating Cordial.
• Diaphoresis, Evaporation by sweat.
• Diarrhea, a Flux or Lask.
• Diastole, Dilatation of the Heart, &c.
• Diuretical, causing Urine.
• Dormative, to cause sleep.
• Ducts, little Pipes for Water, &c.
• Dura mater, the strongest Skin en∣compassing the Brain.
• Dysentery, the Bloudy-flux.
• Disuria, scalding of Urine.

E.

• EFfervescency, a working, a fer∣menting.
• Elixir, a Quintessence.
• Embrocate, to bedew.
• Embryon, an imperfect Child in the Womb, without shape.
• Emetick, a Vomit.
• Emplastick, a clammy Medicine.
• Emulsion, a Medicine like milk.
• Epilepsie, the Falling-sickness.
• Epidemical, Ill, the Plague.
• ...

• ... Epispatick, a Medicine to raise Blisters.
• Epithems, are certain Powders, put in little Bags, and wet in Wine, &c. and applied to the Regions of the Heart, Liver, &c.
• Errhines, liquid Medicines to snuff up the Nose.
• Escharotick, a potential Cautery.
• Exulcerate, to blister.

F.

• FAscinate, to bewitch.
• Fibers, small hairy strings.
• Fistula, a hollow Ulcer with Cal∣locity.
• Filtration, a straining fire.
• Foetus, the young.
• Fomentation, an asswaging Bath.

G.

• GArgarism, a Liquour to wash the Mouth.
• Gargarise, to wash the Mouth.
• Gangrene, an Inflammation ten∣ding to Mortification.
• Gonorrhaea, the Running of the Reins.

H.

• HAemorrhage, an excessive or continual Flux of Bloud.
• Haemorrhoids, the Piles, also the Veins in the Fundament.
• Hepaticks, of or belonging to the Liver.
• Hernius, broken Bellied.
• Homogeneous, Homogeneal of one Kind.
• Hydromel, Water and Honey.
• Hydrocele, a waterish Rupture.
• Hydrocephalos, a Dropsie in the Head.
• Hydragogue, a Medicine to purge water.
• Hydropical, that have the Dropsie.
• Hypochondries, the fore-part of the Belly about the short Ribs.
• Hypochondriacal, a windy Melan∣choly.
• Hysterical, of or belonging to the Womb.

I.

• ICterical, having the Iaundice.
• Icchorous, waterish, mattery.
• Jejunum, the hungry Gut.
• Ileon, the third small Gut.
• Iliack passion, a grievous Disease in the Gut Ileon.
• Impostume, vide Abcess.
• Inflammation, an hot angry Swel∣ling.
• Ingredients, that which goeth into the making of a thing.
• Intercostal, between the Ribs.
• Ischuria, Stoppage of Urine.
• Jugular vein, in the Throat.

L.

• LActeal veins, milkie Veins.
• Lethargy, a slothfull sleepy Disease of the Head.
• Lientery, a Looseness, caused by undigestion.
• Ligament, a bond or binding.
• Linament, a kind of hard Oint∣ment.
• Lipothimy, fainting, sounding.
• Lithotomy, cutting out of the Stone.
• ...

• ... Lixivial, made of Lye.
• Lixivium, a Lye made of Ashes.
• Lympha, a waterish Humour.

M.

• MAsticatory, a Medicine to chew in the Mouth.
• Medicinal, of or belonging to Phy∣sick.
• Membrane, a thin Skin.
• Menstruous, a Woman having her Menses, or monthly Terms.
• Mercurial, made of Quick-silver.
• Mesentery, the thick fat Mem∣brane, that fasteneth the Guts, &c.
• Muscle, an Instrument of volunta∣ry motion in the Body.

N.

• NArcotical, stupefactive, that hath power to stupefie, or make the Body insensible.
• Neopolitan disease, the Pox.
• Nephritick, of the Reins.
• Nitrous, made of Salt Petre.

O.

• OPiate, made of Opium, to cause sleep, and give ease.
• Ophthalmy, Inflammation of the Eye.
• Optick nerve, the Sinew which bringeth sight to the Eye.

P.

• PAlate, the hollow of the Mouth above.
• Panchymagogon, a Medicine which purgeth all Humours.
• Pancreas, the Sweet-bread.
• Paracenthesis, a tapping for the Dropsie, &c.
• Pralitical, that have the Dropsie.
• Pectoral, of or belonging to the Breast.
• Pericardium, the Membrane in∣volving the Heart.
• Periosteum, a thin Skin enwrap∣ping the Bones.
• Peripneumony, an Impostume of the Lungs.
• Peritonaeum, the inner Rim of the Belly.
• Pest, the Plague.
• Pharmacy, Medicine.
• Phlegmagogues, Medicines that purgeth Phlegm.
• Phlebotomy, Bloud-letting.
• Phrenetical, that hath the Phrensie.
• Pia mater the tender Skin enwrap∣ping the Brain.
• Pituitous, Phlegmatick.
• Pleuretical, that hath the Pleurisie.
• Plethorick, fullness of Bloud.
• Prohylactick, a Preservative a∣gainst the Plague, &c.
• P••isan, Barley-water.
• Pulsation, a beating.
• Pulverize, pulverate, to beat into Powder.
• Puncture, a Pricking.
• Purgative, which hath virtue to purge.
• Purulent, full of matter.
• Pustule, a Wheal or Blister.

Q.

• QUartan ague, that cometh eve∣ry fourth Day.
• ...

• ... Quintan ague, that cometh every fifth day, but seldom observ'd.
• Quotidian, that cometh every day.

R.

• RAdical, of or belonging to the Root.
• Rarefaction, a making thin of what was thick.
• Rectum, the Arse-gut.
• Respiration, fetching of breath.
• Rupture, a breaking.

S.

• SAline, saltish.
• Salivation, spitting, or fluxing at the Mouth.
• Sanguification, the changing of the Nourishment into Bloud.
• Saphena, the Vein by the inner Ancle.
• Scamoniats, Medicines made of Scammony.
• Scarifie, to cut or lance.
• Sceleton, a dry Carcass, of Bones onely.
• Sciatica, the Hip-gout.
• Scorbutick, that have the Scurvy.
• Scrofulae, the Kings-evil.
• Secundine, the After-birth.
• Seminal, of the Seed.
• Serosity, the wheyish, or waterish part of the Bloud.
• Sphincter muscle, the round com∣passing Muscle of the Funda∣ment, &c. ordained to prevent untimely excretion.
• Soluble, Loose.
• Solvent, that hath Power to melt or dissolve.
• Soporiferous, causing sleep.
• Spasm, the Cramp, or Convulsion.
• Spermatical, of or belonging to the Seed.
• Spina dorsi, the Back-bone.
• Spinalis medulla, the Marrow of the Back.
• Spirituous, full of Spirit.
• Spissitude, thickness.
• Sternutatory, to cause sneezing.
• Sternon, the Breast-bone, where the Ribs meet.
• Sterillity, Barrenness.
• Strangury, a pissing by drops.
• Sudorifick, that causeth Sweat.
• Suffocate, to choak.
• Suffumigate, to smoak underneath.
• Sulphur, Brimstone.
• Superfetation, a conceiving the second time.
• Suppuration, a gathering to mat∣ter.
• Symptom, any grief following a Disease, or sensibly joyned with it, as Head-ach with an Ague, &c.
• Systole, contraction of the Heart, &c.

T.

• TEnasmus, a Neediness to go to stool.
• Tenuity, Smallness.
• Thoracick, of or belonging to the Breast.
• Torsions, gripings of the Guts.
• Trachea, or Aspera arteria, the Wind-pipe.
• Transfer, to carry from one place to another.
• Transmute, to change.
• Transpiration, sweaty Vapours com∣ing forth of the Pores of the Skin.
• ...

• ... Tubercles, Pimples, Wheals.
• Tumour, a swelling.
• Turgid, after a swelling manner.
• Tympany, the windy Dropsie.

V.

• VAperous, full of Vopours.
• Varices, swelling of the Veins in the Legs.
• Vegetables, Roots or Plants.
• Vehicle, any thing that carrieth, &c.
• Ventoses, Cupping-glasses.
• Verntricle, the Stomach, &c.
• Verminous, full of Worms.
• Vertebra, the Back-bone.
• Vertigo, Giddiness.
• Vesiccatory, a Medicine to draw Blisters.
• Virulent, deadly, poisonous.
• Viscous, clammy like Bird-lime.
• Vitiate, to corrupt.
• Volatile, that flieth.

U.

• ULcerate, to blister, to break out into Sores.
• Unguent, an Ointment.
• Ureters, the Vessels by which the Urine passeth from the Reins to the Bladder.
• Urethra, the passage of Urine from the Bladder, through the Yard, &c.
• Uvula, a fleshy substance, hanging down, like a Grape, from the Roof of the Mouth, towards the Root of the Tongue.