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.

Since nothing could so well express the meaning and intention of the Author, as the very Latin and Greek Words used in these Tracts, we have continued them expresly, and though in many Places I have given their meaning by Synonyma's, yet for the benefit of meer English Readers, we have here composed a Table Alphabetically of all the hard Greck and Latin Words, used in the whole Volume; as also of all Terms of Art, and many other Words derived from the Latin and Greek, tho' usual among Scholars, yet not frequently known to the vulgar, and therefore we have fully explained them, andrendred them intelligible to the meanest Capacity in the following Table.

A TABLE of all the hard words derived from the Greek and Latin, of all Terms of Art and other words not vulgarly re∣ceived, with the Explanation of them.

A

ABdomen,

The lower part of the Belly from the Navel downwa•…•…ds.

Ablution,

A washing away.

Accension,

An Inkindling.

Accession,

A coming to or approach.

Acme,

The height or top of a thing.

Acid,

Sharp.

Acidity,

Sharpness.

Acidulae,

Medicinal waters running forth from Veins of Iron, Copper, and such like, called Spaws from that famous place for Mineral-waters, the Spaw in Germany.

Acrimony,

Sharpness or sourness rather.

Actionobolism,

An Irradiation of Beams, or shoot∣ing forth of the spirits like beams of the Sun.

Aconite,

Avenomous poisonus Herb put for Lib∣bards bane

Acute,

Sharp, or excessive painful, or that is quick and dangerous.

Aculeated,

Made sharp and prickly like a Needles point.

Adhaesion,

A sticking to.

Adjuted,

Helped.

Adventitious,

Coming by accident, or by the by.

Adust,

Burnt or Parch'd.

Adustion,

A burning or parching.

Aequilibrium;

An equal or even poise when the Balance stands bending neither to the one side or the other.

Aequinox,

When the Sun is in the Equinoctial Line and divides the Day and Night into an equal length, and is about the 12. of March and a∣bout the 12. of September.

Aetherial,

Heavenly or belonging to the Air or Skic.

Aetiology,

The rendring of the Cause or Reason of a thing.

Affection,

Taken for the natural Condition, and often signifies sickness or disease.

Affected,

Distempered or diseased. Sometimes na∣tural disturbance.

Affusion,

A pouring forth of any thing.

Agaric,

A Drug that purges Phlegm.

Aggestion,

A heaping together of any thing.

Agitated,

A violent shaking or jogging together.

Alembic,

An Arabic word for a Still used by Chymists.

Alexipharmaca,

Medicines against Poisons and venom.

Alexiterion,

The same, being an Antidote against Poison.

Alchalisat,

A salt made of the herb Kali. Also taken and applyed to salts made of Herbs and shells of Fishes.

Alible.

Nourishable, or that nourishes.

Aliment,

Food.

Allision,

A striking or knocking together.

Aloes,

A juice made out of a bitter herbused in purging Medicines, also a sweet wood.

Amalgama,

A Chymical Term for the setling and mixture of several Minerals or Metals, or other things whereby a separation and extraction may be made.

Ambages,

A compassing or going about.

Ambient,

That invirons or compasses one about as the Air.

Amulets,

Pomanders or Bracelets made against Witchcraft, and Infection and Poison.

Analogy,

Proportion, or agreement or likeness.

Analasis,

The laying open or unfolding of the matter.

Anatomy,

A dissecting the Body, to see the several parts.

Anasarca,

The watry Dropsie swelling up the whole flesh.

Analesia,

A stupifying disease that takes away the sense from all parts of the Head.

Angle,

A Mathematical Term, being the nook or space at the cutting of two lines, and is of several sorts. A Corner or nook.

Anhelous,

Short-winded, or that puffeth for want of breath; that breatheth difficultly.

Annulary, Annular,

Ringy, or like Rings.

Anodynes,

Medicines procuring case from pains by sleep or other means.

Anomal,

Irregular, out of order.

Antasthmaticks,

Tbings good against the Cough or Asthma.

Anterior,

The former.

Antidote,

A Medecine against Poyson or any other disease.

Anticipate,

To go before.

Antihypnotics,

Medecines given against toc much sleeping.

Antipyreuticon,

A Medecine against a Feaver, or a Feaver-Curer.

Antipyreticks,

Medecines against burning Fea∣vers.

Antispasmodicks,

Medecines against Convul∣sions.

Anus,

The Fundament or Arse-hole.

Aorta,

The great Artery the mother of all the rest, proceeding from the Heart, one branch ascending, another descending.

Apoplectic,

One subject to the Apoplexy.

Apoplexy,

A disease that stupifies and takes a∣way sense and motion.

Apozems,

Decoctions or drinking medecines made with herbs.

Appendixes,

Things belonging or depending on a∣nother, as the parts about the heart.

Aquosity,

Waterishness.

Area,

The void space in a Figure, as a Tri∣angle or Quadrangle: The Plat or Floor of any thing.

Armoniac,

Salt extracted out of stones.

Arteries,

The Vessels that carry the blood to the heart.

Arthritick,

Gouty or belonging to tbe Gout.

Arsnick,

Or Orpiment, a poisonous drug.

Archeus,

A chief officer, Workman, or Opera∣tor,

Articulation,

A shooting of jpriggs from the joynts.

Ascites,

A kind of Dropsie which swells between the skin and the flesh.

Asper,

Sharp, Asper artery, the wind-pipe.

Assimulation,

A growing or making like.

Assimulate,

To grow or make like.

Asthma,

A troublesome disease, when the lungs being stopped, one cannot take breath.

Asthmatical,

Belonging to that disease, or troubled with it.

Astringent,

Binding.

Ataxias,

Disorders, irregularities.

Atoms,

Small little Bodies, such as motes in the Sun-shine.

Atrabilous, Atrabilary,

Belonging to the black Bile or melancholy or to the melancho∣ly humour.

Atrophy,

A disease causing a pining away, or a wasting, or Consumption of the flesh.

Attrition,

A knocking, or bruising, or rubbing to∣gether.

Auditory,

An Assembly, or those who hear.

Aurum fulminans,

Or thundering Gold, a me∣tal prepared by Chymical Art, that being heated goes off like a Gun with a Thundering noise.

Austere,

Biting, harsh.

Axillarie,

• Vein is a branch of the Vena Cava coming thorough the arm-hole from the chanel bone descends into the inside of the arm.
• Artery spring s from the left side of the Aorta above the heart, and ascending obliquely thorow the arm-holes, and thence sending branches into the upper ribs, shoulder and chanel bone, it descends down to the bowing of the Elbow.

Azygos vein,

is a branch of the upper Trunck of the Vena Cava, arising on the right side.

B

Balneum Mariae,

Is a way of distilling with a Glass-belly, holding the Ingredients put into a Vessel of water, and so fire being made under it, it distills with the heat of the water.

Balsamic,

Balsamie or belonging to Balsam.

Basilick Vein,

A large Vein into which the Axil∣larie vein is carried, called also the Liver vein.

Basis,

The foundation or foot of a thing.

Bechicks,

Medecines against the Cough.

Belly,

• Upper, the head so called.
• Middle, the region of the stomach,
• Lower, The parts below the Midriff, con∣taining the Intestines.

Bezoartick,

Belonging or made of the precious stone Bczoar.

Bezoar,

A precious stone brought out of the Indies very Cordial.

Bile,

Choler.

Bilary,

Belonging to Bile or Choler, sometimes ap∣plyed to the vessel containing the Choler.

Bipartite,

Divided into two parts.

Bolus,

Is a Medecine made up into a thick sub∣stance to be swallow'd not liquid, but taken on a Knives point.

Botonick,

Pertaining to herbs or herby.

Brachial,

Belonging to the Arm.

Bronchia,

The grisly parts about the wind-pipe

Buboes,

Filthy sirellings about the groin.

C

Cachexia,

An evil disposition of the Body when all the nutriment turns into evil humours.

Cachectical,

To such evil state or disposition

Cachochymical,

Full of evil and bad juice in the body, of very ill digestion.

Callous,

Hard, fleshy and brawny.

Calx,

Ashes, Lime, sometime taken for the re∣maining parts of things Chymically drawn off.

Capillaments,

Small hairy threds of the Nerves.

Caput mortuum,

The deadhead, being the last thing remaining after several Chymical extracti∣ons and good for nothing but to be flung away, all virtue being extracted.

Carbuncle,

A red fiery sore; a Plague-sore.

Cardiack,

Cordial, or belonging to the Heart.

Carotides,

Two arteries which arising out of the Axillarie Artery, are carried thorow the side of the Neck upwards into the skull.

Cart•…•…emums,

A little seed used in Medecines.

Caruncles,

Little peices of flesh.

Cartilage,

Is a gristle or tendril, a substance somewhat softer than a bone, and harder than a Ligament.

Cartilaginous,

Gristly, or belonging to, or full of such gristles.

Cassia,

A swect shrub like Cinamon, also a drug that purgeth.

Cataplasm,

A Poultis or asswaging Plaister.

Catarrh,

A great Rbcum falling from the head in∣to the mouth.

Cathartic,

A purging Medecine.

Cava vena,

The great Liver-vein going thorow the Body.

Cavity,

Hollowness.

Caustic, Cautery,

A Composition made to burn a hole in the skin and flesh to make Issues.

Celiac vessels,

V•…•…ssels belonging to the Belly.

Celebrated,

Performed or done.

Cephalalge,

The Head-ach.

Cephalic,

Belonging to the head, a Medecine pro∣per for the head.

Cephalic vein,

Which springing out of the Axil∣lary vein, passes between the first and second mus∣cle of the shoulder, and so passes evidently into the Arm.

Cephalic Artery,

Consists of two branches which springeth out of the great Artery, ascend up into the head.

Cerebel,

The hinder part of the Brain from whence the Nerves proceed that serve to the vital fun∣ction.

Cervical,

Belonging to the Neck.

Chalybeat,

A Medecine made of prepared Steel, or belonging to Steel.

Characteristical,

The notes, signs or figures be∣longing to a Character.

Chlorosis,

The Green-sickness, or the virgins di∣sease.

Choleduc vessels,

The vessels that hold and send forth the Gall.

Chorodeidal,

Belonging to the Net, like to the in∣foldings about the Brain.

Chyle,

Is the juice or substance of of the meat di∣gested.

Chylification,

The making of Chyle.

Chyme,

Is the juice of the meat further di∣gested.

Chronical,

Long and tedious diseases.

Circumpulsion,

A driving about.

Classes,

Forms or Orders.

Coalition,

Nourishment.

Coagulation,

A curdling like milk, a turning into a Curd, or a separation of the parts like Curds and Whey.

Coagulum,

Any thing that causeth such a curd∣ling, as Rennet.

Coagulated,

Curdled.

Coction,

Boiling or seething, also digestion.

Cohobation,

A dreyning or pouring off from a settlement.

Coindications,

Things to be considered with the disease, also signs besides the disease it self.

Colcothar,

Dross of mettals.

Colical,

Belonging to the disease called the Co∣lick.

Colliquation,

A melting together.

Collation,

A comparing or coupling together.

Collated,

Compared or Coupled together.

Collision,

A striking or knocking together.

Colocynthida,

Or Coloquintida, a bitter purging Gourd or Apple.

Colon,

The fifth Gut, or that great Gut in which is seated the disease called the Colick.

Colluvies,

A filthy heap of anything.

Commissures,

The joynting or joyning of things together, as of the skull bones.

Complication,

A folding together.

Conarium,

A Kernel sticking to the outside of the Brain in form of a Pine-apple.

Concatenation,

A chaining or joyning together.

Concatenated,

Joyned, tyed, or fastned together.

Conflagration,

A burning out, or being in a flame, as in Great Feavers.

Conformation,

The framing, fashioning or dis∣position of a thing.

Congelation,

A Freezing or gathering together into an hard substance, as Ice of water.

Congeled,

Frozen, st•…•…ed.

Congestion,

An heaping or gathering together.

Conjugation,

Ayoking together, a derivation of things of one kind.

Consistency,

Thickness or substance, as a Jelly.

Convolutions,

Roulings about or together, a twist∣ing together.

Contexture,

A weaving together, or a framing or composition.

Copula,

A Joyning of fastning together, fetter∣ing.

Corollary,

Addition, vantage, overplus.

Corrosive,

Gnawing, eating, corroding.

Corrugations,

Wrinkling together.

Cortex,

The bark, shell, peel, or rind.

Cortical,

Belonging to the bark, or rind, or peel of a thing

Crasis,

The disposition, complexion, temperature or mixture of natural humours.

Crass,

Thick.

Crassament,

A thickness or thick setling, as of dregs.

Cribrious,

Sivelike, or that hath holes like a sieve.

Crude,

Raw, undigested.

Crudities,

Raw and undigested humours, or raw∣ness, or undigestion of any thing.

Crisis.

Is the time of the turn of the disease when it either increases or diminishes, always observed by the Physitians.

Critical,

To the Crisis, or such time belonging.

Cremasteral,

Muscles belonging to the Testicles.

Crural,

belonging to the Log.

Crucible,

An earthen vessel used to m•…•…lt Metal with.

Cucurbite,

A Glass-body with a great Belly, used in distillations.

Cuneform,

Wedge-like or inform of a Wedge: A bone so shap'd.

Cutaneous,

Belonging to the skin, or skinny.

Culinarie,

Belonging to the Kitchin.

Cuticula,

The little thin skin under the Cut is or the upper skin.

Cutis,

The upper or outward skin of the Body.

D

Dead head,

The same with Caput mortuum.

Decapulation,

A pouring off.

Defection,

A failing, weakness or infirmity.

Decoction,

A beyling or seething.

Defecated,

made free from dregs.

Deflagration,

A flaming or burning forth.

Diliquium,

As of the salt of Tartar, a clear draining, also a swooning away, or a failing of the senses.

Dilirium,

A raving madness, as in Feavers.

Deltoides,

A muscle in the top of the Arm, having the figure of a Delta, the Greek D.

Demersed,

Drowned.

Depauperated,

Made poor or wasted.

Depraved,

Corruptedor marred.

Depurated,

Cleansed from dregs.

Depuration,

A cleansing or making pure.

Desultory,

Leaping, wavering or inconstant.

Diabetes,

The Pissing evil; a disease that causeth the party troubled therewith almost continually to piss, and in a great quantity a clear and sweetish water.

Diocodium,

A Syrup to procure sleep, made of the tops of Poppy.

Diagnosis,

Dilucidation, or Knowledge.

Diagridium,

See Scammony.

Diaphoresis,

Evaporation, as by sweating.

Diaphoretic,

That causeth Evapor ation or sweat∣ing forth of humours.

Diaphanous,

Clear and splendid.

Diaphragma,

The Midriff that s•…•…paratech the Heart and Lights from the stoma•…•…h.

Diopneon, Diapnoe,

A breathing forth.

Diarrhaea,

A loosness of the Belly, without inflam∣mation, a Lask.

Diascordium,

A Cordial medicine made of Scor∣dium and other Ingredients.

Diastole,

The rising up of the Heart or Artery, the contrary motion of Systole.

Diathesis,

The affection or disposition.

Diluted,

Rinsed or washed.

Dilucidation,

An explaining or clearing.

Dioptric,

Belonging to the Perspective, or a Ma∣thematical Instrument, thorough which they look to take the height of a thing.

Divarications,

A varying or s•…•…vering into parts running up and down, as the Veins and n•…•…rves.

Diversory,

A diverting place, or a place to turn of one side out of the way.

Diuresis,

Evacuation by Urine.

Diuretick,

A Medecine that causeth evacuation by Urine.

Dogmatic,

Stiff in Opinion.

Duodenum,

The sirst Gut or Intestine of twelve fingers long.

Dura mater,

The hard membrane or tunicle that encompasseth the brain next the skull.

Dyscrasie,

Intemperature, as some humour or qua∣lity abounding in the Body.

Dysentery,

A flux of the Belly that corrodes the Bowels and often causeth blood, called then the Bloudy flux.

Dyspathy,

A contraricty of aff•…•…ction.

Dyspnoea,

A pursiness or shortness of breathing, and a stopping of the Conduits of the Lights.

E

Ebullition,

Aboiling up.

Eccentric,

Without Centre.

Eccathartic,

Not purging.

Eccritic,

Not critical.

Edulcorated.

Made sweet.

Effervency, Effervescency,

A being very hot or inflamed.

Effluvia,

Things that flow out of the Body, as steam and breath thorough the pores of the skin.

Egestion,

A casting forth as ordure from the body, or any excrementitious homour.

Egritude,

Sickness or not being well.

Elastick,

That goeth off with a force like Gunpow∣der, or spreads forcibly forth with a jerk.

Elaterium,

A violent strong purging Medicine.

Elixation,

A boyling.

Elixir,

An Arabian word for Quintessence, high Cordials so called.

Elogy,

A report in praise or dispraise of a thing.

Emanations,

Things that flow or proceed from the Body or its parts; slowing forth.

Embryo,

The Child before it hath perfect shape in the mothers womb.

Emissaries,

Places that send forth any thing as the sinks of the body.

Empirical,

Belonging to an Empirick or of know∣ledge in Physick, got by practice only.

Empiric,

Such a Physitian who hath no Judgment, but has all his skill from practice, or by experi ments.

Empyema,

An Imposthume or collection of corrupt matter with inflammation between the breast and the Lungs.

Empyreuma,

A smatch or taste of the fire, as burnt too, or as in most waters newly drawn off by distillation.

Emulgent, Emulging,

Vessels or Arteries, or veins: two large Arteries so called springing out of the great Artery, which being carried near to the back bone are inserted into the Reins. Also two large Veins which springing out of the Vena Ca∣va under the Uentricle, are carried into the Kidnies.

Emunctories,

Sinks or cleansing places for the Body.

Encephalon,

The head and all its parts.

Enema,

A Clister.

Energy,

The force or operation, or virtue of a thing.

Enervation,

Unnerving, or a loosing of the strength, a weakning or making feeble.

Enthymiama, Enthymeta,

Medecines used to express the flow∣ing of the Blood or other humours to any place.

Ephemera,

Things of a days lasting: A short Fea∣ver of a day.

Epidemical,

General, universal, publick.

Ephidorsis,

A sudden sweat beginning about the head and breast passing over the body, unprofi∣table and of small use for that evacuation of the disease: Sometimes taken for sweating.

Epigastric,

Belonging to the Epigastrium.

Epigastrium,

The same with Abdomen, or the outward part of the Belly, from the Navel to the privy members.

Epilepsie,

The Disease called the Falling-sick∣ness.

Epiphysis,

Is an addition of some bone of a dif∣ferent description to the true bone to which it is annexed: an addition or augmentation.

Epispasticks,

Certain Medecines used for the drawing forth of ulcerous matter.

Epithema,

Moist Medecines used to bathe or fo∣ment the parts affected.

Epithymum,

Dodder of Time, used to purge Melancholy.

Equinox,

When the day and night are of an equal length, about the twelfth of March, and the twelfth of September.

Eradicated,

Rooted out.

Erratic,

Creeping, wandring, or straying.

Escharotic,

A Plaister or Salve to heal up a wound, and to bring it to a Crust.

Etymology,

The true Exposition or interpretation of a thing.

Evident,

Plain, clear, manifest.

Eventilated,

Fannowed, or that receives wind.

Euphorbium,

The Gum os a certain Tree so cal∣led.

Excandescency,

A growing very hot and burning.

Excern,

Thrust out, to purge, or sift forth.

Excrementitious,

Belonging to Excrements: filthy, polluted.

Excretion,

A voiding the Excrements, or super∣fluities of the body.

Excretory,

To such a thing belonging, that puts forth the Excrements of the body.

Excrescencies,

Things that grow forth out of the body, or any other thing besides the body, or thing, as Warts or pieces of flesh.

Exert,

Jo shew or put forth.

Exitition,

A sparkling, boiling, bubling, or leap∣ing up, or forth.

Exonerate,

To disburden, or discharge, to purge forth.

Expansion,

A stretching forth, spreading abroad, or inlarging.

Expansed,

Spreadout at large, or stretched forth.

Expatiated,

A running forth or about, enlarged.

Explosion,

A driving forth with violence.

Exploded,

Thrust forth, or driven out.

Extravasated,

Put, or let forth of the Vessels as Blood out of the veins.

Extraneous,

Strange, or of another kind.

Extirpated,

Rooted out, or plucked up by the Roots.

Extricated,

Delivered, or unint angled.

Exuberances,

Swellings forth, or risings up, in the flesh or other parts.

F

Faeces,

Dregs.

Faeculencies,

Dregs or settlements.

Farciments,

Stuffing or fillings of any thing.

Fermentation,

A fermenting or working, like leaven.

Fibrils,

Little small strings of Fibres, or of the Nerves or Veins.

Fibres,

The hairy strings of the Nerves and Ueins.

Fibrated,

That has small and hairy strings.

Filaments,

Little, thin, slender Rags like threds, such as appear in Urine.

Filter,

To strain: A Strainer.

Fissures,

Clests, chaps, or divisions.

Fistulous,

Belonging to a Fistula, or sore running Boil.

Flatulent, Flatuous,

Windy or full of Wind.

Fluor,

AFlux.

Fluid,

Flowing or running.

Fluidity,

Apt to flow, flowing or wetness.

Fornix,

An hollow place in the Brain, bending like an Arch.

Forum,

A place in Rome where Judgments were given, and causes decided.

Friable,

That may be rubb'd to pouder between the Fingers.

Frictions,

Rubbings.

Fuliginous,

Sooty, or belonging to Soot.

Functions,

The Exercises or discharging of some Offices.

Fuse,

To melt as Mettals.

Fused,

Melted or running, as Mettals made li∣quid.

Fusion,

A pouring forth, also a melting of Metals or other things.

G

Ganglia,

Things like the heads of Mushrumps in the body.

Ganglioform,

Of the shape of Ganglias, or the heads of Mushrumps.

Galen,

An ancient learned Physitian.

Gargarisms,

Medecines to cleanse the mouth and Throat, and to wash them from filth.

Genesis,

Beginning, Nativity, or Generation,

Genuine,

True or natural.

Germination,

A springing or budding, or sprout∣ing forth, as of Trees in the spring.

Gesticulation,

A wanton moving up and down of the Legs and Arms or other parts of the body, like a Tumbler or Mimick.

Glandulas,

Are little round Kernels every where up and down in the flesh and other parts.

Glutaei,

Muscles of the Thigh.

Gonorrhea,

The running of the Reins, a flux of seed or matter at the privy parts of man or wo∣man.

Grumous,

Clottery like blood when congealed.

H

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.

I

Jaiap,

Aturging Drug.

Ichor,

The matter or corruption running forth of a sore or Ulcer.

Idocrasie,

The proper disposition or temperament of a thing or body.

Idiosyncrasie,

The property of the Temperament of Bodies.

Idiopathic,

Belonging to the proper passion of a di∣sease, thing or body.

Idiopathy,

The proper passion of adisease.

Idea,

The form or figure of a thing conceived in the Imagination.

Ilion,

The third Gut from the Ventricle, wherein the digested food or Chyle waxing thicker begins to rest; the thin Gut or small Gut.

Iliac,

Belonging to the Colick: The Colick in extre∣mity. Iliack passion.

Imbecillity,

Weakness, feebleness.

Impervious,

That cannot be passed or gone tho∣row.

Impetigo,

A certain kind of dry Itch or scurf like the Lcprosie.

Impetuous,

Violently or with force, as it were rush∣ing upon a thing.

Impregnated,

Filled full with the vertue of a thing, as when any thing is infused in a liquid body, communicating its vertue to it.

Inanition,

Emptiness.

Incitement

A stirring up or provoking.

Indication,

A shewing or manifesting by sign.

Indomitable,

Untamable, that cannot be sub∣dued.

Inflated,

Blown or pussed up as a Bladder with wind.

Ingestion,

A putting or pouring into a thing, as meat and drink into the stomach.

Inguinal,

belonging to the Groin.

Inordination,

Disorderings, irregularities, or out of order.

Insipid,

Without taste or smack.

Inspiration,

A Blowing in, or a drawing in of the breath.

Intense,

Strong, Violent, Great.

Intercostals,

Between the Ribs, Nerves, so called, because descending from the brain, they run bc∣tween the Ribs, and so descend to the In∣wards.

Internodia,

Between the joynts or knots, as the spaces in a Ratoon Cane between the joynts or knots.

Interstitia,

The spaces between other distances as the spaces between the Ribs, or the joyntings of the back-bone.

Internuncius,

A messenger that goes between.

Intestines,

The entrails or the Guts.

Intrinsical,

Inward.

Inverse,

Aturning inside out, or outside in, upside down, quite contrary.

Inverted,

Turned wrong-side out or upside-down; quite changed from its natural scituation.

Involuntary,

Not with the will, unwilling.

Irradiation,

A beaming forth or casting forth beams like the Snn. Sometimes applyed to the spirits beaming themselves forth, or running forth from their centre like beams.

Irrigation,

Awatering, wetting or moistening.

Irritate,

To provoke, anger, or stir up.

Irritated,

Provoked, anger'd, or stirred up.

Ischuria,

The disease of the Bladder; the stoppage of the water, when it cannot comeforth but by drops and with pain.

Ischuretical,

one so troubled with that distem∣per.

Jugular,

Belonging to the Throat, the throat-vein and Artery.

Julap,

A cooling Cordial, or a mixed Potion to cool and refresh the heated spirits, used in Fea∣vers.

L

Lactiform,

Likemilk, or in the form of milk.

Languor,

Feebleness, failing or decay of strength, fainting, or weakness of Spirits.

Larynx,

The top of the Asper Artery, or the head thereof, which reacheth up to the Mouth or Jaw, which with the bone Hyoides joyned thereto, serves for breathing and forming of the voyce, or the air into articulate sounds.

Lassitude,

Weariness and irksomness.

Lateral,

Belonging to the side.

Latex,

Liquor or Juice of any sort in the body.

Laudanum,

A Medecine used by Physicians to cause rest, given in difficult Cases.

Lienary,

Belonging to the Spleen.

Leipothymy,

A swooning or fainting away of the spirits.

Lethiferous,

Deadly, that causeth death.

Leucophlegmacy,

The kind of Dropsie that aris•…•…th of white Phlegm throughout all the body, and makes the flesh spongy.

Ligature,

A band or string bound hard about the Arm, L•…•…g or anyother part of the Body.

Limature,

The pouder or d•…•…st that cometh of file∣ing, the fileings of Steel and other mettals.

Limpid,

Clear, pure, and bright like water.

Linctus,

A Medecine that is to be lick'd with the Tongue.

Liniments,

Ointments.

Lixivial,

Belonging to lie made of ashes.

Lobes,

Leppets, or such as the Liver is distin∣guished into.

Lochia,

All that comes away from a woman after she is brought to bed.

Locomotive,

That moves from place to place.

Lucophlegmacy,

See Leucophlegmacy.

Lumbary,

Belonging to the loyns.

Luxuriat,

To grow rank or abound.

Llmphic, Limphatic,

Vessels: That carry or contain the waterish humours of the body.

Limpheducts,

Water-Carriers, or Conveyors, the same sort of Vessels which carry forth the wa∣terish humours.

M

Magma,

The blended dross and faeces of several Mettals, as also of Chymical Extractions.

Mammillary,

Processes in the Temples, Bones hanging down like broken brows of Banks repre∣senting the fashion of Teats and Cows Ud∣ders.

Mansorius, Massoterie,

A Muscle, which springing up circu∣larly from the Throat bone of the upper Jaw, moveth the nether Jaw.

Mandible,

The Jaw wherein the Teeth are set.

Mastic,

A certain Medecinal Gum.

Masticator,

The Pipe or Conduit that conveys the pituitous matter out of the Head into the Mouth.

Matrace,

A Vessel used for Chymical Distillati∣ons.

Maturation,

Aripcning.

Maxilary, Maxillar,

Belonging to the Jaws.

Mechoacan,

A purging Drug brought from the Indies.

Meconium,

The juice of the Leaves and heads of Poppy.

Medastinum,

Or Mediastinum: The thin mem∣brane that divides the middle belly or the Breast, from the Throat to the Midriff into two bosoms or hollows: One on the right side, the other on the left.

Medullar,

Marrowy, or belonging to the marrow or pith, or the white substance of the Brain.

Membranes,

The little thin skins joyning the bones and sinews together in several parts of the body: The upper thin skins of any part.

Meninges,

The thin skins that enwrap the Brain,

Menstruum,

A preparation made by Chymists to dissolve metals, also to extract tinctures and the virtues of medecinal druggs, woods, flowers, herbs, &c.

Mesentery,

A certain thick fat skin, or the double •…•…kin that fastens the bowels to the back, and each to other.

Meseraic,

Veins arise, or are rather inclosed in the Mesentery, being branches of the great vein, by which the Guts are nourished, and the juice of the meat concocted, is conveyed to the Liver to be made blood.

Mercurie,

Quick-silver, and its preparations of it.

Metaphysical,

Supernatural; things of sublime spe∣culations beyond nature.

Mestasis,

Is a translation, or when a disease re∣moves out of one place into another.

Metathesis,

Is tranposing, the putting of one thing for another.

Miasm,

Infection or taint.

Microscope,

A Perpective-glass to behold minute, and very small bodies, a Magnifying glass.

Millepedes,

The hundred-feeted Creature, and He∣slog-sows, or Hog-lice.

Mirabolans,

A certain medecinal fruit brought out of the Indies.

Modifications,

A measuring or bringing into mea∣sure.

Morbid,

Sick, corrupt, filthy, or naughty.

Morbifick,

That causeth the Sickness or disease.

Mucilage,

Thick boiling up of a thing to a jelly, or thick consistency.

Munited,

Defendedor fortified.

Muscle,

Parts of the body that serve for motion, softer, and more fleshly than the sinews.

Musculous,

Full of Muscles, or belonging to the Muscles.

Myology,

The Doctrine of the Muscles.

N

Narcotick,

Stupifactive, or that makes the part sensless.

Nates,

Two prominences in the Brain, so called because in the form of Buttocks.

Natiform,

In the form of a Buttock.

Neoterics,

People or men of late Times.

Nepenthe,

A drink to drive away melancholy.

Nephritis,

A pain in the reins of the back, also the Stone or Gravel in the Reins.

Nephritic,

One troubled with the pain in the Reins.

Nerves,

Are the sinews which convey the spirits that serve for life and motion through the whole body.

Neurologie,

The doctrine of the Nerves.

Nitre,

That is usually called Saltpetre: A salt taken out of the earth.

Nitrosulphureous,

Nitre mix'd with Sulphur, or of a nitrous and sulphureous nature or quality.

O

Oblique,

Cross, traverse, aslope, not straight or right.

Oblong,

Longish or somwhat long.

Oeconomie,

A certain order of doing any thing, an houshold rule, regiment or governance.

Oesophagus,

The mouth of the stomack.

Olibanum,

An outlandish Gum.

Opiologie,

The doctrine of Opium.

Opium,

Made up of the juice of wild poppie, used to stupifie and bring into a sensless sleep.

Opiats,

Medecines made of Opium for some part if its ingredients to cause sleep and ease for pains.

Optic,

Belonging to the sight, as the Nerves that bring the vertue of seeing to the eyes.

Opopanax,

The juice made of a certain herb.

Ophthalmic,

A medicine to cure the diseases of the eyes.

Orgasm,

Rage or fury.

Orifice,

The hole of a wound, or the mouth of any thing.

Origine,

Beginning, rise or birth of a thing.

Orbicular,

Of a round form or shape.

Orthopnoea.

Is such a straitness of breath, that one cannot breath, or fetch breath without stretch∣ing out of the neck, or holding it upright.

Os Pubis,

Is the bone at the bottom of the belly, just above the privie member.

Os Sacrum,

Or the sacred bone, is the great bone upon which the end of the ridge or back-bone resteth.

Oviparous,

Egg-bearing Creatures, or that lay Eggs.

P

Panacea,

All-heal, or a plaister or medicine to heal all things.

Pancreas,

Called in a Hog the Sweet-bread. It is a remarkable kernel placed below the Ventri∣cle, and serves for a division of the Vena porta, as also to defend the Ventricle from touching the back.

Papillary,

Belonging to the Teats, or like paps or teats of a dug.

Papillae,

Little paps, or little pieces of flesh in the body, so called of the shape of paps.

Paracentesis,

Is an incision made to draw forth the water from those swelled with the Dropsie, vul∣garly called a Tapping.

Paracelsus,

A famous Dutch Emperick,

Paradox,

A thing contrary to the common opinion,

Paralytick,

That is troubled with the Palsie.

Parallel,

Equal, alike, like a line drawn to write by another.

Parotida, Parotides.

The two chief Arteries and Veins on the right and left side the throat, going up towards the ears.

Parotid,

To them belonging.

Particles,

Little parts or portions of any thing.

Paroxisms,

Fits, or the returns of fits, as of an Ague or Feaver.

Pathetic,

To passion belonging, Nerves so called by Dr. Willis.

Pathologie,

The doctrine of the passions, also as Aetiologie.

Pathognomic, Pathognotic,

That moveth the affections, or that properly belongs to the thing.

Pepasmus,

A kind of a concoction of the humors in the disease.

Percolation,

A straining thorow.

Pericardium,

The thin skin or membrane covering the whole heart like a case.

Peritonaeum,

The inner skin or rim of the belly joyned to the Caul, wherewith all the Intrails are covered, called by the Anatomists Siphach.

Peripneumonia,

An Inflammation or Impostume of the Lungs, with a short ness of breath.

Peristaltick,

Motion, a certain motion compassing about as in certain convulsions.

Perspiration,

Breathing thorow, as sweat through the pores of the body.

Perturbations,

Disturbings, vexing troubles, di∣sturbances.

Pervious,

That may be passed through, or that has a passage or way through it.

Peruvian,

Belonging to the Country of Perue, as Peruvian, Balsom thence brought.

Pharmacy,

The Medicines of the Apothecharies; or the art of making them up.

Pharmaceuticks,

The part of Physick that cureth with Medicines.

Phaenomena,

Appearances of things.

Philonium,

A Confection made of many ingre∣dients compounded together.

Philtre,

A potion to cause Love; or poysonous Medicines that operate magically, or not natu∣rally.

Phlebotomie,

Letting blood or opening of a Vein.

Phlegmon,

An inflammation of the blood, with a red swelling.

Phlegosis,

The like Inflammation fiery red.

Phthisis,

The Consumption of the Lungs, with a wasting away.

Phthisic,

Belonging to that disease, or that has it.

Physiologie,

The reasoning of the Nature of a thing, or the searching it out.

Pia Mater,

The thinner inward soft skin that in∣wrappeth the pith and marrow of the brain, and is every where joyned to it; called the thinner and soft Meninx,

Pica,

The longing disease of Women with Child.

Pineal,

Kirnel in the brain, in form of a Pine∣apple, called also Conarium.

Pituitous,

Snotty thick phlegmatick matter.

Plastic,

Formative or that worketh and formeth.

Plenitude,

Fulness or store.

Plethora,

A fulness or plenty of humours in the bo∣dy, good or bad.

Pleura,

A skin or membrane which clotheth the ribs on the inside, which being inflamed by the blood, causeth the Disease called the Pluri∣sie.

Pneumatic,

Windy or belonging to wind or breath.

Pneumonic,

One sick of the disease of the Lungs.

Polypus,

A filthy disease in the nose, breeding stinking and ulcerous flesh within the nostrils.

Pontic,

Belonging to the Sea or to the Country of Pontus.

Porta Vena,

Is a Vein that hath many small roots fastened to the Liver, from whence arising grow into one trunck or stock, which going forth from between two eminent lobes of the Liver, passes into the Gall, Ventricle, Spleen, Me∣sentery, and Caul, and other parts of the body.

Pores,

Are the little small holes or breathing places in the skin of the body, through which heat and moisture insensibly breath continually.

Porous,

Full of such like holes or pores.

Praxis,

Practice or action.

Praecipitation,

A casting down; used by the Chy∣mists for a certain way of distillation, when the matter is thrown back into the receiver.

Praeternatural,

Besides or more than natural; not natural or besides nature.

Praeceding,

Going before.

Praevious,

That went before.

Praecordia,

The parts about the heart, as the Dia∣phraghma, or midriff separating the heart from the other bowels.

Praemised,

Sent before, or before made known.

Praepolency,

Of very great force, strength, excel∣lency, or virtue.

Priapismus,

Is a diseaese in the Yard, that causeth it alwayes to be stretch'd forth, and extended without any thing provoking it.

Primigenious,

The first original; not b•…•…ving its beginning or birth of another.

Procatartic,

Remote, not next cause of a dis∣ease.

Processes,

The parts of a bone (or other parts) that exceed the natural height or posture, and are yet dependances of the bone and parts, and pro∣ceed or go out from it; as also some Nerves going forth of other Nerves, being still parts of the main stock.

Profusions,

A pouring forth, a running or spread∣ing abroad.

Profluvium,

A flowing of humors, a gushing forth in abundance, a flood.

Profligated,

Driven away, or overthrown, discom∣fited.

Prognosis;

The praescience or fore-knowledge, or Prognostication of the event of the disease.

Promptuary,

A Store-house, or place where any thing is laid up.

Prominences,

Bunchings forth, those parts that notably shew themselves above the rest, as a hill in a plain.

Prophasis,

The appearing or shewing of a thing.

Prophylactic,

That part of Physick that prevent∣eth and preserveth from diseases.

Prostatae,

Kernels in the Groyn, or about the privie-members.

Protension,

A stretching forth at length.

Protraction,

A drawing forth at length, also a prolonging.

Protuberance,

A bunching forth above the rest.

Protrusion,

A thrusting forward.

Psoa,

A great muscle beginning at the 11th. rib and going through the bowels to the privie∣members.

Psora,

The scabbado, or scabbiness with pustles.

Ptyalismus,

Sallivation, or a great flux of spit∣ting.

Ptisan,

Decocted Barly, with other ingredients.

Puretology,

The doctrine, or a discourse of Fea∣vers.

Pungitive,

Pricking like needles.

Purulent,

Full of matter or filthy corruption; as a Bile or Impostume.

Pubis,

That part of the privie-parts where the hair grows.

Pulsific,

That strikes as the Pulse or beating of the Arterie, or that causes such striking or pulse.

Pylorus,

Is the lower mouth of the stomach or ventricle, whereby the meat being digested, is transmitted into the Stomach-gut or Maw-gut.

Pyramidical,

Of the shape or form of a Pyramide, broad at bottom and sharp at the top.

Pyretology,

The doctrine of Feavers, or of fire.

Q

Quotidian,

Daily or every day: an Ague that comes every day.

Quartan,

Every fourth day; an Ague that has two days of intermission, and comes on the fourth day again.

R

Ramifications,

Branchings forth like the Veins, Arteries and Nerves up and down the body, re∣sembling the small twigs and branchings of Trees.

Rarefaction,

a making of any thing rare or thin.

Ratiocination,

Reasoning, debating, or arguing of any thing, or the facultie of reasoning.

Reciprocation,

a returning back, or a mutual partaking of a thing, or depending on another by a mutual consequence.

Recrement,

Any superfluous matter, or thing in the blood or body, or any of the parts.

Redundancy,

Superfluity, overflowing too much of a thing.

Recesses,

The private and hidden parts of the body or any hid place.

Refection,

A repast of meat and drink, a re∣freshing.

Refraction,

A breaking off, or rebounding back.

Reflection,

A bending back or rebounding.

Refrigerate,

To make cool, or to refresh with cooling; as fanning one in greatheat.

Regurgitate,

To swallow up again; or to sup up again what it before had parted with.

Regulus,

The dross of metals.

Renal,

Belonging to the Reins.

Reiterated,

Repeated, or the same thing done or performed again.

Remora,

A stop, let, or stay to any thing; a figu∣rative speech taken from a little fish so called, which is said by cleaving to the keel of a ship, to stay it in its eourse.

Repletion,

A fulness or filling full, or abounding.

Repullulate,

To bud or spring forth again, as trees in the Spring.

Resine,

A Chymical extraction of several druggs so called being in substance like to Rosine or Resine.

Respiration,

A breathing forth or a venting.

Resolution,

A dissolving or unbinding, a locsning.

Retort,

A Chymical Vessel.

Reverberatory,

A furnace by which matter is calcined or consumed with the flame.

Rhomboides,

A Geometrical figure with unequal sides.

Rhombus,

A Geometrical figure with equal sides but not right angl'd, like a quarry of glass.

Rhubarb,

A root brought out of the East-Indies, almost like a dock root, used to purge choler.

Risibility,

Laughter, or the faculty of laughing.

Riverius,

A famous Physician.

Rotation,

A going round like a wheel, a moving round.

Rudiments,

the first beginnings and principles of thing:.

S.

Saline,

Saltish or belonging to Salt.

Salt-peter,

Or Salt of the Rock: a salt got out of the Earth, contracted from several dungs of Fowls or other Creatures, as Pigeons, Poultry, and Cattle, and from the Urines of Beasts, and is one of the Ingredients of which they make Gun∣powder, much used in Chymistry.

Sal-prunella,

A Salt made out of Salt peter.

Sal-ammoniacus,

A Salt of the Earth, found a∣mong the Sands in Lybia.

Sal alcali,

Salt of ashes made of the herb Kali, but used also for the salt of other herbs burnt to ashes and so extracted.

Salvatella,

Vein, is a branch, which springing out of a Cephalick Vein, in the outside of the Cubit, stretcheth above the wrist and extream part of the hand, between the Ring-finger and the little finger.

Salivate,

To spit or cause one to void much spittle.

Salivation,

A great flux of spitting, or avoiding of spittle more than ordinary at the mouth.

Sanguineous,

Bloody or belonging to the blood.

Sanguification,

The making of blood, or the changing the nourishment into blood.

Sanguiducts,

The Vessels that carry the blood through the body, as the Veins and Arteries.

Sarsaparilla,

A drugg brought from the West-Indies, used in many decoctions.

Sagapenum,

A kind of Gum or Rosin that runs forth of the Shrub called Ferula.

Scammony,

The juice of an herb which violently purgeth choler; it is also called Diagridium.

Scapular,

Muscle; a muscle belonging to the shoulders, and serves for the moving of them.

Scheam,

Is a figure or draught of a thing; also taken for an Astrological Table of the 12. Houses.

Schirri & Scirri,

Are hard swellings in the flesh, with∣out pain but hardly curable.

Schirrous,

Full of such hard swellings.

Sclerotic,

That is troubled with some turnour in the third panicle of the eye, called the Cornea membrana, or somewhere there abouts.

Scorbutick,

That is troubled with the disease called the Scorbute or Scurvey.

Scordium,

A useful herb in Physick, having leaves almost like Germander.

Scotomies, Scotomie,

Turnings round; a disease in the head, when all things seem to turn round.

Scrotum,

The outward skin of the Cods, where the hair grows.

Scutiform,

In the form of a Shield or Buckler.

Sedal,

Veins in the Fundament.

Seclusion,

Athrusting forth or out.

Secundine,

The After-birth, or that which in∣wraps the Child, which follows after the Birth of the Child; vulgarly called the After burthen; of Anatomists the 4th. membrane of the eye, called Chorion; and that first clotheth the optic sinew is called the Secundine.

Secretion,

A separating or putting apart:

Secreted,

Separated apart.

Senna,

Or Sena, the leaves of a Plant, that Pur∣geth Phlegm, Choler and Melancholy.

Sensory,

The organ of feeling, or discrimina∣ting by the sences; the common sensory or seat of such organ, placed in the brain.

Septic,

That hath the force of corrupting or putri∣fying, or that maketh rotten or ripe the matter in a sore.

Series,

An order, course, or succession of things, a row or course of things orderly one after another.

Serous,

Humour, the whey or watery humour that aceompanieth the blood, and which makes it fluid, and is separated and put off from the blood into the parts of the body.

Serosities,

Such serous humours abounding.

Serum,

The whey or watery humour ef the blood, the substance of the serous humour.

Sinus,

A bosom or hollow turning, or outlet of waters or an inlet or arm of the Sea.

Soldanella,

Is the Sea-colewort or Folefoot.

Solitive,

Loosening, or that maketh the body loose.

Solstices,

Are two, the Summer and the Winter solstice; the first is about the twelfth of June, when the Sun is nearest to us and makes with us the longest day; the last is about th: 12 of De∣cember, when the Sun is at its greatest distance from us, and makes with us the shortest day.

Solving,

Loosening or unbinding.

Solution,

A loosening or weakning, as of the Nerves or joynts.

Solvent,

That which dissolveth or openeth the parts of the matter to be wrought upon.

Spagiric,

Belonging to Alchymie, or to the Chymi∣cal art.

Spasms,

Cramps or Convulsions of the Nerves.

Spasmodic,

Belonging to the Cramp or Convulsion, or hauling of the sinews.

Spasmology,

The doctrine of the Convulsion or Cramp of the sinews.

Speculative,

Contemplative or notional.

Speculation,

A seeing or discovering a thing by contemplation.

Species,

A kind more particular than Genus, and may be communicated to more generals; as a Cow and an Horse are of a different species, but both Animals or Beasts.

Spermatic,

Belonging to the sperm or seed,

Sphacelismus,

A blasting or a mortification of a part.

Sphincter,

Is the round muscle that encompasses the mouth of the Arse gut, which keeps the ex∣crements from an involuntary coming forth.

Spine,

The back-bone, or long-joynted bone that goes down the back.

Spina dorsi,

The same; the bone of the back, the Chine.

Spinal,

Belonging to that bone.

Spiral,

A turning about, and as it were ascend∣ing.

Splanchnic, Splanchnical,

Belonging to the Spleen.

Splenitic,

Troubled with the disease of the Spleen.

Spodium,

A sort of sout made out of the making and trying of brass.

Spontaneous,

Willingly or of one accord, or by the command of the will.

Sporadical,

That seiseth not after an usual man∣ner, diseases that seize privately here and there on People dispersedly, not generally or epide∣mically.

Squinancy,

Or Squin•…•…y, is a swelling in the throat, with an inflammation.

Stagmas,

The mixtures of mettals, or other Chy∣mical things set together to ferment and operate one upon the other.

Stagnation,

A standing still without motion, as a pool.

Sternothyroeidal,

Muscle, A Muscle which reaches from the Sternon to the Os Pubis.

Sternon,

That part of the breast where the rib∣meet.

Stibium,

Antimony.

Stiptic,

Or Styptic, that straineth, bindeth, or is restrictive.

Strumous,

That belongeth to the Kings evil, or he that hath that disease.

Subclavian,

Vessels: the vessels that belong to the little ribs of the breast.

Sublimate,

White Mercury, or Quick-silver Chy∣mically sublimed; Mercury sublimate: of a poy∣sonous nature.

Subside,

To sink down or fall to the bottom.

Subsidiare,

That cometh for aid, or to help, or bringing aid or help.

Subaction,

A kneading, working, exercising. or bringing under.

Suffusion,

A spreading abroad, or pouring forth.

Sudation,

A sweating.

Sudorifick,

That causeth sweating.

Sulphur,

Brimstone which is found in Mines in the Earth, taken also for one of the Chymists principles.

Sulphureous,

Brimstony, or belonging to Brim∣stone.

Superficies,

The outside or overmost part of any thing.

Suppuration,

A ripening or gathering together of the matter of a sore.

Surculs,

Little or small shoots or spriggs.

Sutures,

The joynings together of the bones of the head, which appear as if sowed together with long stitches.

Symptom,

Is an effect, accident or passion follow∣ing any sickness, or any sensible grief joyned with a disease, besides the disease it self, as Head-ach with a Feaver.

Sympathy,

Is a natural passion of one thing to a∣nother, or an agreement in qualities.

Sympathic,

Agreeing in affections or passions.

Symphony,

A consent or agreement in harmony.

Sympraxis,

A joynt exercising or agreement in practice or action, a consent in operation,

Syncope,

A swooning, or a loss of all sense.

Synochus,

Is a Feaver without changes or in∣termissions, a continual Feaver.

Synthesis,

A figure contrary to Analysis; a con∣cession of some things arising from the matter.

Systasis,

Constitution.

System,

The work or part of something that is con∣stituted or a theam or work compacted of several parts, a part of which is a System.

Systole,

Is the motion of the heart and arteries, contrary to Diastole, by which they are con∣tracted, but by this they are dilated.

Syzygies,

Are the Nerves that carry the sense from the brain to the whole body; also the conjun•…•…ions of the Sun, Moon and Stars.

T.

Tabes dorsalis,

The mourning of the Chine; a wasting or consumption of the back.

Tabid,

Consumptive, pining, or wasting.

Tamarinds,

An outlandish fruit, good to quench thirst and to allay the heat of choler, used in Medicines.

Tarantula,

A little venomous creature found in Apulia, a part of Italy, whose poyson being by biting diffused through the body, strikes the Nerves with strange tumors and Convulsions, which is only curable by the party so bitten, being provoked to continual dancing, by which means the poyson is evacuated through the pores from the Nerves.

Tartar,

Is a concreted matt er taken from the Lees of Wine, very medicinable.

Tenacious,

Holding or cleaving fast.

Tenasm,

A great desire of going to stool, and yet can do nothing.

Tenous,

Thin, slender, or small.

Tendons,

Certain parts in the top of the Muscles, which serve aptly for the moving the muscle, being the lodging place of the animal spirits, belonging to the Muscle, and out of which they issue into the muscle; they are harder than the muscles, yet softer than a gristle or ligature.

Terrestial,

Earthly, or belonging to the Earth.

Testes,

certain tub•…•…rcles in the brain of a man and beasts, so called because like to the stones of a man.

Tetanism,

A kind of Cramp that so stretcheth forth the member that it cannot bow nor bend any way.

Texture,

Frame or make of a thing.

Theorie,

Contemplation, or speculative knowledge of a thing.

Theriacal,

Or Treacle, a Medicine of a diverse composition invented against poysons.

Therapeutick,

The curatory art of medicine, or that which belongs to the curing part.

Theorem,

An Axiom respecting contemplation.

Thesis,

A position or a general question or argu∣ment to be discussed.

Thorax,

The breast or the middle part of the body, reaching from the throat or neck to the lower ribs.

Thoracious,

Belonging to the Breast or Thorax, or medicines good to help the disease of the Thorax.

Tinged,

Dyed or dipped, or that has received a colour.

Tincture,

A dying or colouring, or the dye or co∣lour of any thing. It is used also for high Cor∣dials and Chymical m•…•…dicines, of a liquid sub∣stance, and stained with some tincture or co∣lour.

Tolutan,

Balsom: A Balsom brought from the Indies, so called.

Topics,

General places or heads for invention; a part of Logick, noting the places of Inven∣tion.

Torpedo,

The Cramp-fish that benummeth the bands of the Fishers, holding the Net or Angle with a subtil poyson.

Torpor,

A nnmness, heaviness or stiffness and un∣aptness for any motion.

Torrid.

Dry, burned, or parched.

Torrified,

Made dry or parched, or burnt or scorched.

Trachea,

The Weasand or Wind-pipe; the sharp arterie.

Tragacanth,

An outlandish Gum, commonly called Gum-dragganth.

Transpiration,

Abreathing through as a vapour through the pores.

Transpire,

To breath through, as the humors in∣sensibly through the pores of the skin.

Trapezial,

Belonging to a Geometrical figure, so called of four sides.

Troches,

Are little round Cakes made up of pow∣ders, and used in medicines.

Trochlear,

Muscle: A muscle made almost like a windlas or pulley, where by things may be strong∣ly hauled or pulled.

Tropicks,

Two great imaginary Circles in the Heavens, being of equal distance from the Aequa∣tor, the one called the Tropic of Cancer, to which the Sunbeing come, he returns back towards the Tropick of Capricorn; to which being come here again, returns towards the Tropic of Can∣cer; being the limits of the Suns progress.

Tubes,

A Mathematical Instrument, hollow like a pipe.

Tubercles,

Little swellings or pushes, wealks or weales in the skin or flesh.

Tubuli,

Small little pipes, the Veins and very small Arteries, or little hollow parts of the bowels so called.

Tumified,

Swelled or puffed up.

Tumor,

An hard rising or swelling in any part of the body, with or without inflammation.

Turbith,

A root much used in Physick to purge phlegm.

Turgency, Turgescency,

A swelling or rising up.

Turgid,

Swelled or risen up, puffedup, moved very much.

Tympany,

A kind of dry Dropsie, or windy swell∣ing of the belly, gathered between the peritoneum and the bowels, which if it be smitten upon, soundeth almost like a Drum.

V.

Valves,

A part of the brain, made like folding doors so called.

Van Helmont,

A Famous Dutch Doctor.

Vapid,

Dead, decay'd, without tast or smack.

Vegetation,

A growing or putting forth, or flou∣rishing as a Plant.

Vegetal,

Belonging to such a growing or flourish∣ing.

Vegetable,

That which hath life, and growth, but not sense, as herbs and trees.

Vehicle,

That which carrieth or beareth another thing as the blood is of the animal spirits.

Vena Porta,

See Porta Vena.

Vena Cava,

See Cava Vena.

Venous.

Belonging or appertaining to a Vein.

Ventricle,

Is the stomach, or that part which re∣ceives the meat and drink, being swallowed down, and which hath in it self the virtue of digestion.

Ventricles,

Of the heart, two notable little bollow caverns on each side of the heart.

Of the Brain, several not able caverns therein.

Ventricles,

Of the heart, two notable little bollow caverns on each side of the heart.

Of the Brain, several not able caverns therein.

Vermiculations,

Creeping like a Worm, or motions like the creeping of a Worm.

Vernal,

Belonging to the Spring, or in the time of the Spring.

Verberation,

A beating or striking.

Vertigo,

A diziness, giddiness and turning round within the head. A certain disease, which causeth a turning within the head.

Vertebral,

Belonging to the joynts of the back∣bone.

Vertebrae,

Those several joyntings and knittings of the back-bone or chine, so called of Anatomists.

Vesicatories,

Medicines that raise or cause Blisters where applied.

Veterans,

Old Soldiers, or any thing that hath served long in a place.

Viaticum,

Voyage provisions, as meat and drink upon a journey.

Vibration,

A shaking, striking or quavering.

Vicinity,

Neighbourhood, or nearness of dwelling or being.

Viscid,

Clammy, or sticking like Bird-lime.

Viscosity,

A Clamminess or glewiness.

Viscera,

Are the chief Entrals or Inwards, as Heart, Liver, Lungs, Spleen, the Bowels, &c.

Vitriol,

Copper as, a certain Mineral found in se∣veral Countreys used in Medicines.

Vitrolic,

Belonging or appertaining to Vitriol.

Umbilic,

Belonging to the Navel, or of the like∣ness or shape of the Navel

Undulation,

A wavering like the waters, where one follows upon the heels of the others.

Unctuosity,

An oyliness or juiciness.

Unctuous,

Oylie or juicy.

Volatile,

That easily flies away, or that is apt to flie or vanish.

Ureters,

The pipes or passages; by which the Urine passes from the Reins to the Bladder.

Urinary,

Belonging to the Urine, or the passages of the Urine.

Uterine,

Belonging or appertaining to the Womb.

Uvea,

The fourth thin membrane of the eye, called also Corion.

W.

Wezand,

The Windpipe or Throat.

X.

Xeroeus,

Wine: A Spanish Wine so called, I suppose they mean Tent.

Here ends the Table of hard names.