Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.

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Haemorrage,

An excessive flux of Blood at the nose or elsewhere.

Halos,

A Circle about the moon or stars.

Hellebore,

The root of an herb used in Physuk, two sorts, white and black.

Heptic,

Belonging to the Liver, and a Medecine proper to cure the diseases of the Liver.

Hermodactils,

Or Mercuries finger, white and red, used in Medecines.

Heterogeneous,

Of an other kind or Genus, strange, not agreeing.

Homogeneous,

of the same kind or Genus, a∣greeable, and sorting.

Horizon,

The Circle of the Firmament, termina∣ting our sight.

Humid,

Moist, wet.

Hydropic,

That hath the Dropsie, or belonging to the Dropsie.

Hydrotic,

A medicine evacuating watery hu∣mours.

Hydragogues,

medecines that will draw forth the watery humour of those who have the Dropsie.

Hyoeides,

A forked bone like the letter Y, so called of the Anatomists, consisting of divers small bones which are the ground or foundation of the muscles of the Larynx, and the Tongue, and belps to breathing, and swallowing down meat and drink.

Hypercatharsis,

overpurging, or in extreme.

Hypochondria,

The Praecordia: The forepart of of the Belly and sides about the short Ribs and above the Navel, under which lyeth the Liver & the spleen.

Hypochondriac,

A windy Melancholy, bred in the Hypochondria, from whence a black phlegm arises that infects and troubles the mind, one troubled with such melancholy.

Hypnotic,

A medecine that causeth sleep.

Hypogastrium,

The lower part of the Belly, which reaches from the Navel downwards to the privy parts.

Hippocrates,

Alearned ancient Physician, and the firstmethodizer of Physick, and made it Arti∣ficial.

Hippocrates sleeve,

Alongwoollen straining bag, sharp at the bottom, so called, being almost in fashion of a sleeve or Doublet.

Hypothesis,

An argument or matter about which one may dispute.

Hypostasis,

A substance or settlement, such as is in the bottom of an Urin.

Hysterical,

Belonging to the womb or mother, or troubled with the disease called the Mother.