The practice of physick in seventeen several books wherein is plainly set forth the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs : together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ...

A Physical Dictionary.

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  • A Pophlegmatisms, Medicines drawing flegm out of the Head.
  • Agaricktrochiscated, See the London Dispensatory in English.
  • Apozeme, A Medicine made of the Broth of di∣vers Herbs, and other Ingredients; unto which somtimes certain Syrups are added.
  • Animal Faculties, The Powers of Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, Feeling; of Ima∣gination, Understanding, Memory, Will, Go∣ing, Standing, and all Voluntary Motion.
  • Aranea Tunica: The Cobweb-Coat, or Tu∣nicle
  • Abdomen: The Belly, or Paunch
  • Apoplectick Water: Good for the Apoplexy
  • Autumn: Harvest, the Fall of the Leaf
  • Actual Heat: is Heat that may be felt by the hand, such as is in Fire, and all things heated thereby; or in the Body of one in a Feaver: It is oppoied to Potential Heat, viz. That cannot be felt by the Hand, as the Heat in pepper, in Mustard seed, in a Flint, in unsla∣ked Lime: and the contrary of Actual Cold.
  • Affected: Troubled, Diseased: An Affect, a Disease, Trouble, Disorder.
  • Aquae Acidulae: The Spaw Waters, like those of Epsam, Barnet, and Tunbridg, with us.
  • Absurdities: Unreasonable things
  • Acrimony: Sharpness, such as in Mustard, Pep∣per, and in divers Humors of the Body which cause sickness.
  • Ascent: Going up.
  • Apply: lay on.
  • Actually Cold: see Actual Heat.
  • Augment: Encrease.
  • Accidentally: By hap, by chance, upon occasi∣on.
  • Adventitious: not Natural, but springing from external causes.
  • Actracting: drawing together, or causing.
  • Attracts: draws to.
  • Accident: somthing that happens upon a Dis∣ease; vide Symptome.
  • Adstriction: binding together, shutting up.
  • Antecedent Cause: foregoing Cause. is oppo∣sed to the Conjunct Cause. Abundance of Flegm in the Body is the Antecedent Cause of the Optick Nerves being stopped by flegm; but the Flegm in the said Nerves, is the Con∣juct Cause &c. of other Diseases.
  • Articulate Voyce: A distinct Voyce, such as that of Man-kind, termed Speech.
  • Abstergent: Clensing away filth.
  • Access: Addition, joyning to, help, or company.
  • Afflux: flowing to.
  • Astringents: Medicines that bind together, and straiten the Pores and Passages of the Body.
  • Astriction: binding, knitting together.
  • Anodines: Medicines which asswage pain.
  • Anastomosis: an opening of the Mouths of Veins, by which means Blood issues.
  • Astringe: bind, fasten, close.
  • Acute: sharp, violent: a Disease is termed A∣cute, when it quickly changeth to health or death.
  • Adustion: burning: Adust, burned. Blood is said to be adust, when by reason of extraordi∣nary heat, the thinner parts are evaporated, and the thicker remain dreggy and black, as if they were burnt.
  • Asthmatical: troubled with shortness of breath.
  • Attest: witness, declare.
  • Aneurism: a Swelling caused by a dilatation of the Arteries external Coat, the internal being broken.
  • Axungia: Grease.
  • Atrophy: want of Nourishment, when the Bo∣dy pines away.
  • Attenuating Medicaments: are such as make thick Humors thin.
  • Axiom, or Theoreme: an acknowledged, un∣doubted Truth.
  • Adjacent: lying neer, bordering upon.
  • Aromatized: Spiced, perfumed.
  • Anus, the Fundament.
  • Astringe, to bind.
  • Atomes: smal Moats hardly visible, and that cannot admit of any division.
  • Adverse: contrary to, of a contrary Nature.
  • Augment, is the time of a Disease, while it grows still more vehement, until it comes to its height, which is called the state of the Dis∣ease, and then the Augment ceases, because the Disease is now at a stand, and encreaseth no more.
  • Alteratives, are such Medicines as only change

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  • the qualities of the Body and its Humors, by heating, cooling, moistening, drying, &c. they are opposed to such as do cause Vomiting, Purging, Sweating, Transpiration, &c.
  • Adjuncts of a Disease, are qualities, dispositions, and Symptomes annexed thereunto.
  • Aliments, are what ever is taken into the Body to nourish the same; as all kinds of Meat and Drink.
  • Adjuvant Causes, are such as serve and assist the principal Cause; so is the Taylors Boy an ad∣juvant Cause assistant to his Master, the prin∣cipal Cause of a Garment. So in Diseases, whatever assists the Primary Cause, is termed an Adjuvant Cause.
  • Alexipharmical things, are such as resist Plague, Poyson, and all venemous Diseases.
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  • BAlneum Mariae; the manner of stilling or digesting, when the Glass containing the Ingredient, stands in a Vessel of Water, with Fire made under it.
  • Bolus: A Morsel; a Medicine to be taken from a Knises point.
  • Bellilucanae Thermae: Hot Baths in France, so called from the place where they are.
  • Breathing of a Vein; Blood-letting, properly if but little Blood be taken away.
  • Bronchia; the hollow gristly Pipes that spread themselves through the Body of the Lungs, be∣ing Branches of the Wezand or Wind-pipe.
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  • CAruncle; a little bit of Flesh that grows and sticks out on any part of the Body.
  • Catarrh; a Defluxion or Distillation of Hu∣mors from the Brain, into any part of the Bo∣dy, especially the Lungs, causing Coughs.
  • Condense, to make thick.
  • Contention; Digestion in the Stomach, &c.
  • Cataphora; a deep sleep.
  • Cupping-glass, is that which Physitians use to draw out Blood with Scarrifying of the Skin, Glasses fastened with lighted Tow or Flax.
  • Catalepsis; Congelation, or stifness of the Bo∣dy.
  • Causticks, are Medicines which burn the Skin and Flesh to make Issues, &c.
  • Coronal Suture; the Seam which runs through the Crown of the Head, where the two sides of the Skul close.
  • Crude; Raw, undigested: So Meat not well boyled or rosted, is Crude; and Blood and other Humors not well digested by the Sto∣mach, Liver, &c. are called Crude.
  • Conjunctiva; a Coat of the Eye, so called be∣cause it sticks fast unto the Eye, and keeps it in its place.
  • Actual Cautery, is burning with a red hot Iron.
  • Congelation, freezing together, stifness with Cold.
  • Constipation, stopping up.
  • Chollick, pain and griping of the Gut Colon; and because the pain proceeding from the Stone, is very like thereunto, it is called the Stone-Collick.
  • Cerates, Medicines made of Wax, and other Ma∣terials, stiffer than an Oyntment, and softer than a Plaister, to be applied to divers parts.
  • Cephalick, or Capital Opiate, Head Electuary.
  • Cephalick Pills, Head-pils.
  • Cephalick Plaister, Head-Plaister.
  • Collyrium, an Eye-salve.
  • Convulsion, a drawing together, a shrinking to∣gether.
  • Contracted, drawn together.
  • Cornea, a Coat of the Eye like the Horn of a Lanthorn. See Veslingus in English.
  • Chyrurgeon, Surgeon.
  • Circumvolution, turning round like a wheel or whirl-wind.
  • Compression, thrusting or squeezing together.
  • Contusion, Bruising, a Bruise.
  • Cold seeds, See the English Dispensatory.
  • Compress, thrust together, squeeze.
  • Condense, thicken, condensing, thickening; a Condensation, a thickening.
  • Coarctation, a straitening, thrusting together.
  • Contraction, drawing together, shrinking up, &c.
  • Contracted, drawn together.
  • Confirmed, A Disease is said to be confirmed, when it is perfect, setled, and hath taken root.
  • Couched with a Needle, that is, taken away with a Needle, or pressed down with a Needle.
  • Centre, is properly the middle point within a Circle, from whence all Lines drawn to the Circumference, are equal; it is taken figura∣tively for the middle of any thing.
  • Continuity, the oneness, the joyning together without interruption.
  • Compact, firmly united, wel thrust and crowded together. So Gold, Lead, and other Mettals, are said to be compact, compared to Cork, Spunge, and light Wood which are not com∣pact, but hollow and pory.
  • Concocted: An Humor is said to be concocted when it is either turned into good Blood, as sweet Flegm is wont to be; or when it is se∣parated from the Mass of blood, and made fit for expulsion.
  • Concoction; a boyling, or boyling together: when the meat in the Stomach is changed into a substance like Almond Cream; that change is called Concoction.
  • Cataplasm; a Pultiss.
  • Cavity; hollowness.
  • Crisis; by bleeding at the Nose, or by vomit, page 57. that is a breaking away of the Dis∣ease by Natures Conquest of the Cause,

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  • which she drives forth by the Nose or Mouth.
  • Crystalline Humor; a part of the Eye which re∣sembles a little Cake of Crystal; if you open a Calves Eye carefully, you may take it out whol.
  • Conus, is a Geometrical Figure, representing a Sugar-Loaf, or an Extinguisher; which Phy∣losophers make use of when they teach how the Eye perceives its Object.
  • Connatural; which is bred with a Man; as he that is born with one Eye, or but two Fingers: such a Disease is termed Connatural.
  • Convex; bunching out like the back-side of a Buckler or Platter.
  • Conjunct Cause of a Disease, is the immediate Cause; so Flegm stopping the Optick Nerves is the Conjunct Cause of Blindness; whereas taking of cold, swimming in cold water, eating flegmatick meats, sleeping after Dinner, were the remote, or far distant Causes, &c.
  • Constriction, a drawing together, a straitening.
  • Congestion; a gathering together or heaping up.
  • Cumulation; the same with Congestion. These words are opposed to defluxion. When a part is diseased by an Humor sent from ano∣ther part, it is termed Defluxion; when the Humor is first gathered in the part it self, by reason of its own proper weakness, it is termed Congestion or Cumulation.
  • Conjoyned Matter; see Conjunct cause.
  • Corroding; biting, gnawing, eating.
  • Consolidation; closing up of a Sore or Wound, &c.
  • Carus; foulness, rottenness, corruption of a Bone.
  • Cicatrize; to bring to a Scar, to close up a wound or sore.
  • Commissura; the Mold of the Head, where the parts of the Skul are united.
  • Cavous; hollow.
  • Critical Evacuations by bleeding, stool, &c. are such as Nature procures to drive out her vanquisht Enemy; and are means and tokens of Recovery. Symptomatical Evacuations are such as proceed from the vehemency of the Disease, before Nature hath mastered the of∣fending Humor, and they prove bad tokens.
  • Calcine; to burn to Ashes in a Crucible, &c.
  • Corrode; eat, fret; Corroding, eating, fretting.
  • Cronical; long lasting.
  • Cacochymical; abounding with evil Humors.
  • Critical day; See Day of Judgment.
  • Corrosion; a fretting, eating asunder.
  • Conjugation; a pair of Nerves is so called.
  • Cardialgia; Heart-burning.
  • Crudities; Rawness, indigestion.
  • Chylus; a Liquor like a Posset, into which all Meats are changed in the Stomach, if the Di∣gestion be good.
  • Cydoniatum; Conserve of Quinces, or Mar∣malade.
  • Cardiogmos; Heart-burning.
  • Carminating Medicines; are such as do break Wind.
  • Constringe; draw together.
  • Carminative; expelling Wind.
  • Chalibeat Vinegar, and Chalibeate Water, are such as have steel quenched in them.
  • Carabe; Amber.
  • Cronical Diseases; such as usually last very long, as Quartan Agues, Stone, Dropsies, &c.
  • Crystal of Tartar; Cream of Tartar.
  • Consistence; Body, or Substance.
  • Catheter; an hollow Silver Instrument to thrust into the Bladder when the Urine is stopt by a stone, to thrust back the stone, and let out the Urine.
  • Complication of Diseases; when divers Disea∣ses are in the Body at the same time, especially if they depend one upon another.
  • Coalition; healing up, growing together of a Wound or Ulcer; or any Part that ought to be open, as of the Privity in some Girls.
  • Coincide; is to happen together at one and the same time.
  • Cachectical Persons, are such as have their whol Bodies blown up with a soft and moist swel∣ling, with the color of the Face white, or lead∣colored. Also their Legs especially swell, and their Face is bloated.
  • Coindicants, are divers things in a Disease or Patient, which plead for one and the same Re∣medies. So in a putrid Feaver, the person being full bodied, and the season warm also, the person lusty and yong: The Feaver, the fulness of Blood in the Patient, his Age and strength, and Season of the Year, are Coindi∣cants that he must be let Blood.
  • Contra-indicants, are divers considerations that disswade a Remedy: As when in a putrid Feaver, old Age, Winter Season, Weakness, are Contra-indicants, that disswade from Blood-letting; which the Feaver simply con∣sidered, doth indicate, or perswade and hint out.
  • Coction of Humors, is their being separated from the Mass of good Blood, and fitted for ex∣pulsion: As when thin Humors are moderate∣ly thickened, and tough clammy Humors are cut and divided. This Coction of Humors is known by the Urine, when it hath a light, even, and smooth setling, &c.
  • Causa sine qua non; The Cause without which a thing cannot be, though it be not the princi∣pal Cause thereof: So a Taylors Shop-boord is a Cause sine qua non, without which a Gar∣ment cannot be made, though himself and the stuff, the shape and the end be principal Cau∣ses.
  • Commemorative; bringing to remembrance what is past.

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  • Cicatrize; is to bring un••o a Scar, which is done when Wounds and Ulcers are healed up.
  • Contumacy; stubbornness, rebellion.
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  • DIureticks; Provokers of Urine. Diagnosis; the knowledg of a Disease.
  • Distillation; a flowing down of thin Humors from the Brain into several parts.
  • Decoction; the Liquor where in things are boy∣led, the Broth of Herbs, and other Medica∣ments.
  • Diagnosticks; the Signs to know what Disease a Patient hath.
  • Defluxion; the same with Distillation: also a running together of Humors into any part, causing pain or swelling, &c.
  • Delirium; Dotage, raving, talking idlely, in time of sickness especially.
  • Diarrhoea; a simple Loosness, without Infla∣mation of the Guts, any extream pain, or voi∣ding of Blood.
  • Diaphoenicon; see the London Dispensatory in English.
  • Diacatholicon, Diacarthamum; see the Dis∣pensatory.
  • Diet; this signifies in many places a Diet drink.
  • Diminished; Lessened.
  • Diminution; a lessening.
  • Discuss; dispel invisibly: as a Plaister that makes a swelling go away without breaking, is said to discuss the same. because the Matter of the swelling is not seen to come away; but is turned into steems and vapors, and partly drinks up the substance of the Plaister, and so vanisheth invisibly.
  • Declination of a Disease; is the breaking of the Disease, when it begins to tend to health, which is known by the Symptomes growing more gentle.
  • Diverting Medicines; which turn aside the Humor causing the disease, so that it flow not into the part offended.
  • Dislocation; putting out of its place.
  • Derived; turned away from.
  • Diffuse; spread abroad.
  • D••ssipated; scattered abroad.
  • Demonstrated; cleerly proved from undenia∣ble Arguments.
  • Depravations; marrings spoilings, hurtings.
  • Depressed; made flat or hollow, dented in.
  • Distemper; any excess of the four first qualities, Heat, Cold, Moisture, Dryness. There are reckoned four simple or single distempers, viz. a Hot, a Cold, a Moist, a Dry: and four com∣pound, viz. Hot and Moist, Hot and Dry, Cold and Moist, Cold and Dry.
  • Dilated; widened.
  • Dilatation; widening.
  • Debility; weakness.
  • Distortion; writhing, wresting, crooking.
  • ...Dissipating: ••pread abroad, driving away.
  • Derivations: drawing an offensive Humor from the part diseased, to some other part neer it.
  • Digestives: Medicines which prepare evil Hu∣mors for to be driven out by Nature.
  • Dissolved: melted, consumed away. It is used of swellings that are brought down by Oynt∣ments or Plaisters; and in other cases when the Humor causing the Disease, is invisibly driven away.
  • The Drum mentioned in page 96. is a pretty lit∣tle hollow bone in the Ear, covered with a thin Skin like a Drum, which being beaten upon by another little bone like a mallet, doth cause sounds to be heard in the Ear. See Veslingus his Anatomy in English.
  • Diapedesis; is an issuing of the blood through the Pores of the Veins.
  • The Day of Judgment, or Critical day: is that day in feavers especially wherein it appears, on which side sentence is given, whether on the ••lantifs, viz. the Diseases; or on Natures, the Defendant; so that by some Evacuation, or swelling, or other great mutation to the better or worse, it appears whether the Patient is like to recover or not.
  • Distention: stretching.
  • Depraved: marred, spoiled.
  • Dilatation: widening, opening.
  • Diaphragma: the Midrif.
  • Dyspnaea: shortness of breath.
  • Dysentery: a Bloody-flux.
  • Diagrydiates: Medicines that have Scammony or Diagry dium in them.
  • Dissolution of Natural Heat: a decay of Natu∣ral Heat.
  • Diaphoretick Sweats: which are caused by Na∣ture, oppressed with a malignant Humor, and forcibly driving the same out by Sweat.
  • Dung-gate; the Arse-hole.
  • Distillations by descent: are when the Liquor which comes from the Materials stilled, doth not rise up above the said Materials, as in or∣dinary distillation; but falls down under the Materials stilled, which are therefore laid up∣on a Grace, that the bottom of the Vessel may be empty, and free to receive the distilled Li∣quor.
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  • EXcrement: the Dregs of Digestion in the Body, voided by Dung, Urine, and Sweat.
  • Evacuation: an emptying or voiding forth, purging.
  • Epispastick: a Plaister to draw a Blister, called also a Vesicatory, or any strong drawing Plai∣ster.
  • Errhines: Medicinal Liquors to be snuft up th•• Nostrils to purge the Brain.

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  • Empyema: Empyems a corrupt matter between the breast and the lungs following a Pleuris••e.
  • Erysipelas Oedematosum: a tertian swelling a∣rising from choller and flegm.
  • Eliphantiasis: a leprous disease, which makes the Patients skin like the Hide of an Ele∣phant.
  • Electuary: See the London Dispensatory.
  • Expulsion: driving forth; as of Excrements, Dung, Urine, Sweat, &c.
  • Expel: to drive forth.
  • Eruption: breaking forth.
  • Extinguished: quenched, put out.
  • Emunctuaries or Emunctoryes; certain waies and passages that Nature finds to drive ill Hu∣mors into, from the Principal Parts; as cer∣tain Kernels behind the Ears; and in the Groins, under the Arm-pits, &c. where risings happened in time of Pestilence &c.
  • Essentially springing P. 11. that is primarily and principally, not accidentally or occasionally.
  • Ebullition: boiling and working of the blood in the Veins, like New-wine in a Cask.
  • Extension: stretching out.
  • Extenuation: Leanness, Consumption of flesh. Extenuating making thin.
  • Expulsive faculty: the power of our body which drives forth Dung, Urine, Sweat, Vapors &c. every part partakes of this Ability, or Faculty.
  • Eminent: neer at hand approaching.
  • Erysipelas: a swelling caused by choller. Ery∣sipelas Phlegmonodes, or Phlegmon Erysipe∣latodes. Is a swelling caused by Inflamation of Choller and Blood.
  • Emulsions: Almond milkes; and milkes made of cool Seeds, &c.
  • Electuaries. Medicines made up of Conserves of Flowers or Herbs; to which is added some sweet Spicy pouder for the most part, and so with Syrup it is made up in the form of Mi∣thridate or Treacle.
  • Epithemes: are Medicines applyed in Bags, com∣monly upon the Heart or Stomach Liver or Spleen &c. Certain convenient pouders being put in a Bag, or between two cloths, and so wet in Wine or other convenient Liquor, are laid upon the Stomach, Heart, &c.
  • Essential to the Disease: that is of the be∣ing or substance, so that without that, the dis∣ease could not be. So Heat is Essential to a Feaver.
  • Excrements: dregs and refuse of our meat and drink after Concoction, voided by dung, Urine, Sweat, and invisibly through the Pores.
  • Excrementitious: of or belonging to Excre∣ments, impure, preternatural humors are so called.
  • Extenuate: make thin.
  • Expressed: Squeezed out.
  • Epidemical: common to a whol Nation. So the the Plague, small Pocks, Loosness, Sweating∣sickness, &c. when they are rise all over a Na∣tion▪ or Country at one time, they are called Epidemical diseases.
  • Ehxir Proprietatis. A Medicine invented by Paracelsus. Take of the best Aloes, Myrrh & Saffron, of each half an ounce: Pouder them and put them into a Glass. Then take Musca∣dine made tart with Oyl of Sulphur, and pour upon the pouder, til the liquor stand four fingers above the pouder: Let them stand and digest in a warm place. Then pour off the Liquor and put on more, till all the Colour and vertue be drawn out from the pouder. At last still the settlings with a gentle fire, and pour that which comes away, to the former Liquor, and let all stand and digest a Month in a warm place, close stopped. The name signifies such a Quintessence, as hath a special propriety of agreement with Mans nature, whereby it comforts and restores the same, in al kind of weakness.
  • Emollient: Medicines that soften.
  • Eroded: eaten a sunder, eaten up.
  • Extraction: pulling out.
  • Exquisite: perfect, in an high degree.
  • Escharoticks: see Causticks potential.
  • Embrochated: moistened, bedewed, bathed.
  • Erosion: fretting, eating.
  • Eclegma. See Lambitive.
  • Extream parts: the Armes and Legs.
  • Emplastick diet: consists of such meats as are of a clammy substance, viz. Calves Head and Feet, Sheeps-trotters; all Feet of Beasts, Tripes, Gellys, &c.
  • Excreta and Retenta: things voided out of the Body, things retained, or kept in.
  • Eradicate, pluck up by the Roots.
  • Exasperated: pained, vexed, molested.
  • Equivocal: Signs of a Disease, are such as are common to it and other Diseases.
  • The Efficient Cause: is the working or making Cause, so a Tailor is the Efficient of a Gar∣ment; The Material Cause is the stuff, a thing is made of which the Efficient works upon; So the Cloth or Silk is the Material Cause of the Garment. The formal Cause, the shape that makes it a Coat, or Cloak, or Doublet; the Final Cause, is the end why it was made, viz. to hide nakedness, keep off Sun and Cold, and to adorn the body.
  • Emulgent Veins: which bring the Wheyish Ex∣crement of the blood unto the Kidneyes where it becomes Urine, and is passed by the Urecers into the Piss-bladder.
  • Evaporation: a steeming out of Vapors.
  • Egress: coming forth.
  • Evaporated: steemed away, as Water that spends away in boiling.
  • Evacuators: Medicines which empty out evil Humors, either by vomit, Purge, &c.

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  • Exhalations: Vapors drawn up by the Sun, out of the Earth and Waters.
  • Eventilated: Fanned, purged as Corn by fan∣ning. So Exercise is said to eventilate or fan the Body; because the motion opens the Pores, and drives many vapors out.
  • Eneorema: that which hangs like a cloud in U∣rines, especially when the Disease is breaking away.
  • Emollient Decoction: a softening moistening Decoction, made for Clysters to soften and moisten the hardened Excrements of the Guts.
  • An Eschara, or Eschar; is the Core that falls off from a part that hath had a Caustick ap∣plied thereto.
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  • FƲmigations: Perfumes and others things, burnt to qualifie the Air in a sick mans cham∣ber.
  • Fracture: breaking, as fracture of the Skul or Arm, &c.
  • Fomentation: when linnen Cloaths or Spunges are dipped in some Liquor, and applied to the diseased part, and after renewed.
  • Functions of the Brain: the Abilities of the Brain, to Hear, See, Imagine, Understand, Remember, &c.
  • Frictions: Rubbings.
  • Furor Ʋterinus: Womb-Madness; when Wo∣men are mad by reason of a disorder in the Womb. See the Chapter of that Disease.
  • A Flux of Humors: flowing of Humors.
  • Febris Catarrhalis: a Feaver caused by Rheum falling from the Head.
  • Fabrick: Frame, making up, composition.
  • Frontal Vein: Fore-head Vein.
  • Fortified: strengthened.
  • Fistula: an hollow, deep, but narrow Ulcer that will not be closed up.
  • A pair of Forceps, a smal Instrument like a pair of Tongs, to draw forth any thing out of the Ears, &c.
  • Fluid: apt to run and flow like Water, and o∣ther Liquors.
  • Filtration: straining through a brown Paper, or by means of a piece of cloth hanging out of one Vessel into another.
  • Filter: to strain as aforesaid.
  • Fermentation: the working of Humors, as new drink works in the Barcel.
  • A Feaver Symptomatical, is a Feaver caused by some other foregoing Disease; in respect of which Disease, the Feaver is but a Symptom or Accident.
  • A Flatulent and Pituitous Chollick, is a Chol∣lick caused by wind and flegm.
  • Formicans Pulsus; a weak, feeble, quick Pulse, that seels under the Fingers like creeping Pis∣mires, from whence it is named.
  • Form: See Efficient Cause.
  • Fluxive: apt to flow and run like Water and other Liquors.
  • Friable: is crumbly, short, like costly Cake∣bread, Pie-crust, Puf-past, &c. So Fishes that have a short crumbly substance, not clammy or slimy, such as Soals, Smelts, Trouts, are said to be friable in comparison of Eels, Carps, Tenches, &c.
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  • GƲm Animi: Indian Amber.
  • Gargarisms: that is, Medicines to Gargle in the Throat to wash sore Throats, de Gutteta: a Pouder used in Falling-sickness and Convulsion of Children by the French. It is described page 33. at the bottom.
  • Going about: by fits.
  • Generating: breeding, begetting.
  • Glandules: Kernels, such as are about the Throat, a••d are called the Almonds of the Ears, and such as the Sweet-bread, &c.
  • Gate-Vein: Vena Porta. See Veslingus Anato∣my in English.
  • Generous Wine: strong Wine, as rich Canary, Muskadine, &c.
  • Glutinations: Clamminess like Gum about the corners of the Eyes.
  • Glutinators: things which glue and close up broken Veins, &c.
  • Glutinous: clammy like Glue.
  • A Gangrene: is a corruption of a part tending to the utter deading thereof.
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  • HYpochondria: the parts beneath the Ribs. Hemiplegia: the Palsey possessing one side.
  • Hydrelaeum: a Bath and Oyntment; that is, of Water and Oyl beaten together.
  • Hippocras Bag: a Bag of Wool shaped like an Extinguisher, through which Hippocras and divers Medicines are strained.
  • Hereditary: from Father or Mother, to Son or Daughter.
  • Hydromel: Honey and Water, Mead, Metheg∣lin.
  • Hemorrhoids: Veins of the Fundament, to which Leeches are applied.
  • Head-Herbs: Rosemary, Betony, Sage, Laven∣der, sweet Marjoram, Hysop, Balm, Cow∣slips, Roses, Violets, Lettice, Borrage, Bug∣loss, &c.
  • Habit of Body: is the whol bulk and substance thereof.
  • Humidity: Moisture.
  • Holy Fire: a red Inflamation, St. Anthonies fire, the Rose.

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  • Hemorrhagies: breaking forth of Blood from any part of the Body.
  • Hysterical Fits: Fits of the Mother, Womb∣sickness.
  • Hermetical Physitians, and Hermets: Chy∣mists, such as trade with Furnances, Pots, and Glasses, to draw Spirits, Oyls, Waters; to make Salts, Quintessences, &c. called so from Hermes Trismegistus, an old Egyptian Phy∣losopher, who is thought to have been a Chy∣mist.
  • Horrors: Shiverings.
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  • INfuse: that is, steep.
  • Inflamation: great Heat.
  • Indication: is an hinting to the Physitian what he is to do. So extream heat is said to give in∣dication of cooling; extream fulness of blood gives indication of blood-letting; want of a womans Courses gives indication of blood-let∣ting, &c.
  • Jugular Veins: that is, the Throat Veins. See Veslingus Anatomy in English.
  • Insensible Passages: which cannot be seen, nor felt, by reason of their smalness.
  • Influence: flowing in.
  • Inherent: sticking fast within, seated and abi∣ding within.
  • Inordinate: disorderly, unnatural, and unfit∣ting.
  • Internal and External Sences: The Internal are, Common Sence, Imagination, Under∣standing, Memory: The External are, Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, Feeling.
  • Intercepted: stopped in the middle way.
  • Internally and Externally: inwardly and out∣wardly.
  • Juleps: pleasant Drinks made of distilled Wa∣ters, or the broth of Barley, and other conve∣ment things, and sweetened with Syrups or Su∣gar; given chiefly in Feavers to cool and quench Thirst.
  • Infusion: a strained Liquor wherein Medica∣ments have been steeped, either hot or cold.
  • Incrassate: thicken.
  • Incrassating: thickening.
  • Insensible: not to be perceived by the outward Sences, of Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, &c.
  • Illumination: enlightening.
  • Influx: flowing into.
  • Inversion; turning the inside out.
  • Intermission: ceasing, leaving off.
  • Inveterate: old, of long continuance, rooted.
  • Inclination: that is, by holding the vessel on the one side, and so powring the cleer from the set∣lings: this is called to clarifie by Inclination, in opposition to clarifying with the white of an Eg by boyling, or any other way.
  • The Iris: a party-color'd round Circle in the sight of the Eye like a Rainbow, from whence it hath its name.
  • Incarnate: to breed flesh.
  • Irritation: provocation, stirring up.
  • Involuntary Tears: which are not shed by force of sorrow working upon the mind, but by force of a bodily Disease.
  • The day of Indication: is that day in a Feaver on which may be collected what wil betide up∣on the following Critical day. So the sourth day doth hint what is like to happen on the se∣venth; and the eleventh hints what is like to happen upon the fourteenth; and the seven∣teenth what will happen upon the twenty one; and the twenty four what will betide upon the twenty eight. Therefore the fourth, eleventh, seventeenth, twenty four, are called daies of Indication, or telling and declaring.
  • Judged, see Day of Judgment.
  • Infirm: weak.
  • Insipid: Tastless.
  • Incising Medicaments; are such as cut and di∣vide tough flegm, and other clammy humors, whereby they become fit for expulsion; such is Oxymel, &c.
  • Intestines: the Guts.
  • Intension and Remission: Increase and decrease, growing stronger or weaker.
  • Injection: is a Medicinal Liquor cast with a fit∣ting Instrument into the Womb, Bladder, or Fundament, when there is forenessof hemor∣roids, &c.
  • Inserted: fastened or planted into.
  • Inspissate Juyce: is Juyce of some Herb boyled till it be thick, as Honey.
  • Illustrated: made cleer and manifest.
  • Invasions of the Gout: fits of the Gout, or of Agues, may be called Invasions of the said Dis∣eases.
  • Intense: vehement, strong.
  • Indicate: declare, point out.
  • Impacted: wedged in, thrust far in.
  • Irrigations: moistenings, sprinklings, waterings.
  • Intervention: coming between, happening toge∣ther with.
  • Intermediate: coming between.
  • Intermitting Pulse: is that which holds up a while, and then beats again; and then stops, and then beats again, which is a sign of great weakness.
  • Incoctibility: an unaptness to be concocted or digested, or an impossibility thereof.
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  • LEnitive: a gentle, refreshing, cordial Medi∣cine.
  • Ligatures: or strings wherewith the Joynts of Bones and the Gristles are compact and bound together.
  • Lozenges: the same with Tablets, being the

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  • form of a Medicine made up.
  • Luxation: is when one Joyne is loosned from another.
  • Liniment: Oyntment.
  • Ligatures: bindings of several parts to draw the blood and Humors from the part diseased, to the parts bound, by reason of the pain of bind∣ing which must be very hard and straight.
  • Loosness of Continuitie: separating and dividing of things closed and united. So a wound is termed a loosening of Continuitie; because, it separates these parts of the skin and flesh which were formerly united together.
  • Laxe: loose, slack, as an unbended Bowstring.
  • Livid: black and blew.
  • A Lambative or Lohoch: is a medicine to be lickt from a Liquoris stick, and to be swallowed softly down, being chiefly ordained for the Lungs.
  • Iron-water: Water wherein Iron hath been quenched. Smiths forge-water.
  • Laxative: which makes the belly loose.
  • Livid: black and blew, Lead-coloured.
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  • MEninges: or films of the Brain, coats that cover the brain.
  • Masticatories: that is Medicines to be chewed to bring away Rheum.
  • Mes••eraick Veins: little Veins that are thought to carry chyle from the stomach to the Li∣ver. See Vestingus Anat. in English.
  • Malignity: venemous or poysonful quality of certain humors and Diseases which make them very dangerous, and for the most part dead∣ly.
  • Matter, or Quittor: a snotty kind of filth which comes out of Imposthumes when they break, and out of Ulcers when they are in a good way of cure.
  • Magistral Syrup: is such an one as is invented by a Physitian for his Patient, in opposition to those Syrups commonly kept in shops.
  • Matrix: Womb.
  • Membrana: skin or coat of the Arteries, Veins, &c. Membranes, skins or coats.
  • Mortification: a deading of any part of the body.
  • Malign: venemous, poysonful. See Maligni∣ty.
  • Mother: the Womb in Women is so called.
  • Mitigation: abatement, lessening, growing mild.
  • The Medium: is that through which we see, as principally the Air, which we look thorough upon objects; also the Water and Glass, Horn, or what ever is cleer, and may be seen thorough, may be termed a medium of fight.
  • Mammilarie passages, or productions: certain little knobby bunchings out of the Nerves, which serve for smelling, resen bling Teates, called therefore Teat-like productions. See the English Anatomy.
  • Malax: soften. To Malax a lump of Pil∣stuff, is to soften it, that it may work up into Pills the better.
  • Mercurial Purges: Purges made of Quicksilver, Chymically prepared, such as Mercurius dul∣cis, some kind of Precipitate, Mercurius vitae, &c.
  • Macerate: steep.
  • Mesenterie: the skin whch knits the Guts toge∣ther, and runs all along among them, embossed with Fat. See Vestingus his Anatomy in Eng∣lish.
  • Membranous: of the Nature of Skin or Parch∣ment.
  • Morbifical, or Morbifick matter; is that which is the principal cause of any Disease.
  • Minorative purgation: is gentle purgation, such as takes away only a part of the matter of a disease: it is opposed to Eradicative purgati∣on, which is strong, and pulls the whol matter offending up by the Roots; as it were.
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  • NƲtrition: Nourishment.
  • Narcotick medicines: stupefying medi∣cines: that dull the sence of feeling, and cause profound sleep.
  • Nitre: salt Peter, as some hold; but Matthio∣lus conceives the true Nitre is rarely found in these daies.
  • Natural functions: actions of the stomach, Li∣ver, Spleen, Gal, Kidneyes, in concocting the meat, making blood, and separating and expel∣ling the excrements.
  • Nauseousness: sickness of the stomach enclining to vomit.
  • Nidorous: smelling of burnt fat, or scortched Roast-meat, or fryed Oyl.
  • Noxious: hurtful.
  • Nausiosis of the Veins: is when the Veins are sick of bad blood, and doth as it were spew it out into the habit of the body: from whence comes scurvy-spots, morphew, scabs, &c.
  • Neotericks: are late writers in physick, or any other Art, so called in opposition to the Anti∣ent Authors.
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  • ORgans: peculiar parts of the body fitted for some notable service of the Spirit, such as the Eye to see, the Ear to hear, the Nose to smell, the Skin to feel, the Lungs to breath, Stomach to digest.
  • Os Sacrum: the great bone whereon the Ridg bone resteth.
  • Opisthotones: a Convulsion so named, when the

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  • Body is drawn backward.
  • Oval forme: that is the shape of an Eg.
  • Original: beginning, foundation.
  • Oedema: a swelling caused by flegm, which is soft and whiteish, and has little heat or pain with it.
  • Obstruction stopping.
  • Opiate signifies an Electuary: properly it is put for Venice Treacle, Mithridate, Diascor∣dium, &c. which have Opium in them: from whence the name is derived. But secondarily, it signifies any Electuary or Antidote made up in such a body as Treacle, &c. though it have no Opiate in it.
  • Orifice: the whol which is made by a Surgeon when he lets blood. Also the mouth or pas∣sage into the Womb, or Stomach, &c.
  • Opticks: a Part of Natural Philosophy (though falsly reckoned for a branch of the Mathema∣ticks) opening all the Mysteries of sight, and the reasons of the Deceptions, or mistakes thereof, and teaching to make augmenting Glasses, mutiplying Glasses, Perspective Glas∣ses, burning Glasses, &c.
  • Oblique: slantling, athwart, crooked,
  • Obnoxious: liable, or subject unto.
  • Ophthalmy: an Inflamation of the Eyes, cau∣sing foreness and redness.
  • Oscribosum: the bony Sieve. A bone full of small holes, like a Sieve or colendar, placed a∣bove the Nose, through which Snot and Sni∣vil, is drained from the brain.
  • Occult: hidden, unknown.
  • Oxycrate: Vineger and water mingled together.
  • Organical Disease. See similar diseases.
  • The Systole, or diastole of the Pulse: are the double motion thereof. For when the Arte∣ry is extended by the blood, Issuing out of the Heart, and smites the Finger of him that feels the Pulse; that motion is called Dia∣stole, or a widening and stretching of the Arte∣rie: but when the Arterie falls, contracts it self, and sinks from under a Man•• Finger, that motion is called Systole, a contraction.
  • Oxyrrhodine: Vinegar of Roses, and Medicines made principally thereof.
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  • PRognosis: the foreknowledg of Diseases.
  • Plethora: a too great fulness of good blood in the body.
  • Paralysis: the Palsie.
  • Paraplegia: Parisis, Palsie.
  • Peripneumonia: an Inflamation of the Lungs, or Lights.
  • Pericranium: the skins which compasseth the Scul.
  • A Pugil of Herbs viz. as much as is taken up be∣tween the Thumb and the three fore-Fingers.
  • Physical Regiment: is the right ordering of a Patient, having taken a Purge, or other strong Medicament. As to keep the Patient warm, to give posset or thin-broath after every stool; not suffer him to read, or her to Sow or hold down the head, or to be sad, or to sleep; espe∣cially after a vomit, &c.
  • Phrensie: rageing, Madness joyned with a Fea∣ver. see Chap. 11. Book 1.
  • Prognostick: foretelling. A Prognostick sign is a sign foretelling what will become of the Disease, and patient.
  • Privation: loss.
  • Plethorick: full of blood, too full of blood.
  • Pores: little holes in the skin, through which vapors and sweat come out. Sometimes they are visible upon the Arm or Leg, being swelled and closed with cold; resembling a Goose skin for roughness.
  • Preternaturally: otherwise then the Course of Nature requires.
  • Perspicuous: cleer, that may be seen through, as Glass, fair-water, &c.
  • Peritonaeum: the inner coat of the Belly, which covers the Guts: See the English Anatomy.
  • Poplar Oyntment: in the shops called Popule∣on. See the English Dispensatory.
  • Potential coldness: that is coldness in operati∣on, though not to the feeling. So a draught of Whey in which cooling Herbs hath been boiled, being drunk down warm from the fire; is said to be actually hot, because it is so to the hand and palate; but Potentially cold, because it afterward cools the stomach, Liver, &c.
  • Pulsation: beating of the Arteries, in any part of the Body.
  • Precede: go before.
  • Preparing of humors: is the qualifying of them, so as that they may be fit for expression which preparation consists in separating them from the mass of good blood: in making them thick, if they be too thin and sharp: in cutting them and making them thin, if they be too thick and clammy.
  • Phlebotomy: blood-letting.
  • Preternatural: beside the intent or custom of Nature▪ vide Preternaturally.
  • Propriety: a pain by propriety, is when the cause of the Pain is in the part pained, so when the Head-ach comes from the Humors in the Head, it is called a pain by propriety; when it comes from Humors in the Stomach, or any other part that sends up vapors; it is called Head-ach by Consent. And the like may be said of other Symptoms or accidents.
  • A Pyramis: is a Geometrical figure, broad and angular at the bottom, and growing less and less towards the top, till it come to a point. The Sepulchers of the Egyptian Kings were made in this form, and therefore called Pyramides. Naturalists do make use of this Figure to shew

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  • how the Eye receives the representations of visible objects.
  • Pupil of the Eye: is the midlemost round circle, which we commonly call, the sight of the Eye, and which in Cats, is seen to widen and con∣tract it self.
  • Pulse: Beans, Pease, Hastivers, French-pease, &c. called so, because they are gathered by pulling, and not by mowing down, as corn.
  • Probable: likely, possible.
  • Profound: deep.
  • Producing: breeding, causing.
  • Peccant Humor: the Humor offending, cau∣sing the Disease.
  • A Phlegmon: is an Inflamation or swelling cau∣fed by blood. If no other Humor be adjoy∣ned, it is a true Phlegmon. If choller be joy∣ned, it is called a Phlegmon erisipelous; if flegm, aedematous; if melancholly, Scirrhous.
  • Paroxysme: the fit of an Ague, of the Mother, or any Disease that comes by fits.
  • Perforated: bored through.
  • Putrid: rotten, filthy, stinking.
  • Pustula: a pustle, push, or whelk.
  • Ponderous: weighty.
  • Peristaltickmotion of the Guts: is whereby the Guts do contract and purse themselves toge∣ther above the excrements, and so squeez them out.
  • Pomum curtipendulum: an Apple so called.
  • Pubes: the hairy Hillock above the privities in men and women. The word signifies ripeness, because that hair being grown out, testifies the parties to be fit to engender.
  • Paerineum: the space which runs like a ridge be∣tween the privities and fundament in men and women.
  • Praeposterous: unnaturall, undue, unfitting.
  • Perturbation of the Eyes: a troubled, drousie, frighted look of the Eyes.
  • Procatarctick Causes: primarie, first working and occasional Causes. So in a Feaver, the next immediate Cause, is putrefied choller &c. but the first working & occasional causes, were the patients taking cold, by swimming in the cold-water; whereby the pores became shut, and the Matter of the Disease was retained in the Body. So the Procatarctick Cause of worms in Children, is their greedy eating of Fruit; but the immediate Cause, is putrid humors occasioned by those Fruits; out of which humors the worms breed.
  • Precipitated: thrown head-long, forcibly cast down.
  • Palliative Cure: is when a Disease is not taken away, but only mitigated and made more mild, so that the patient may have as much ease as possible. Or if the Disease deform the Body, a palliative Cure, does hide as much as may be that deformity. So an Eye being thurst out, cannot be properly cured; but it may admit of a palliative cure, in asswaging the pain, and other Symptoms, and by putting in∣to the place thereof a Glass or other Artifici∣al Eye.
  • Potent: powerful.
  • Perspirable: the Body is said to be Perspirable, when the invisible Pores or holes in the skin, are kept open, so that the vapors arising from evil Humors may freely breath out. See Tran∣spiration.
  • Pernicious; deadly, causing death, & destructi∣on.
  • Protraction: is a lengthening out of a Disease and making the same to last long.
  • Pharmaceutick Remedies: whatsoever kind of Medicines are made by the Apothecary.
  • Praeposterous: disorderly, undue, unfit, the Cart before the Horse.
  • Quittor.: See Matter.
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  • Repletion. over much fulness of blood, or Humors.
  • Resolution, weakening or dissolving the strength of a part, as when it is palsyed &c.
  • Revulsion: drawing back of blood or Humors from the part affected.
  • Repelling: Medicines which draw back the hu∣mor from the part affected, Repellers, the same.
  • Relaxing: Slacking as the string of a bow when the bow is unbent, is said to be relaxed or slackned.
  • To Revel: to draw back Humors from the part diseased.
  • Remitted: lessened, abated.
  • Restriction: exception, limitation.
  • Ruption: breaking, or tearing asunder.
  • Reliques remainders of an Humor after Solemn purging, bleeding &c.
  • Retraction: drawing back.
  • Radical moisture: the fundamental juice of the Fundamental juice of the body, which nouri∣shes and preserves the natural heat, as the oile in a lampe preserves and feeds the flame.
  • Revelled: drawen back, Revulsives, remedies to draw back the Humor from the Diseased part.
  • Repelled: driven away.
  • Retentive: faculty, the power in our body and its parts to hold fast its nutriment and what ever is agreeable thereunto.
  • Rough Arterie or Aspera Arteria, is the wind∣pipe or Wesand, which is rough on the out side with circles and gristly rings.
  • Reduced brought bach againe.
  • Refractions: breaking of the Representations of visible objects. a terme used by the writers of Opticks, or the Art of seeing.
  • Recruted: repaired, restored, made up, a mi∣litary

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  • ... Resolving medicaments: are such as loosen and scatter evil humors which are gathered and combined together in some diseased part of the Body.
  • Re••ercussives: medicines which drive back the Humors from a diseased part.
  • Relaxation: loosenes.
  • Refrigerating: cooling.
  • Resp ration: breathing.
  • Reflux: flowing back again.
  • Recipient part, is that part which receives the Humor offending.
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  • Suppository: that which is put into the Fun∣dament to cause solubleness.
  • Sudo•• osick: that is causing sweat.
  • Subeth a deep sleep.
  • Scarefication: is a cutting of the Skin that it may bleed into a Cupping-glass.
  • Superficies: the outside of any thing.
  • Stuphes: Stoves or Hot-Houses to sweat in.
  • Spiritus acousticos: is that portion of the spirit which in the Eares discerneth sounds.
  • Strangulation: choaking.
  • Sternon: the breast bone, See Veslingus Ana∣tomie in English.
  • Sphinchter: is the Musle of the Arse.
  • Stupor: dulness.
  • Spasmus: cramp or Convulsion.
  • A Scruple is twenty graines or the weight of so many barley cornes.
  • Sternutatories: medicines to snuf into the nose to provoke sneezing.
  • Stupefying: taking away the sence of feeling; benumming.
  • Stupid: that is benummed, besotted, hath no feel∣ling or sense, blockish.
  • Symptomes: evil dispositions of the Body which depend upon and accompany a disease; as Heat, th••••st, Headach, want of sleep, stom∣ach-sickness, faintings, swoonings &c.
  • Sympathy: fellow-feeling, a disease is said to come by sympathy, when the principal cause is in some other part, with which the part of∣fended hath a fellow-feeling. So paines of the Head caused by evil Humors in the sto∣mach, are said to come by sympathy. And sickness of stomach caused by stone in the kid∣neys is a disease of the stomach by sympathy.
  • Nerves Sinnewes, certaine strings carrying the facultie of Motion and sence from the Braine into all parts of the Body see Veslingus Anatomie in English.
  • Scorbut: the Scurvie.
  • Steeled in which steel hath bin quenched or in∣fused.
  • Scorbutick persons, that are troubled with the scurvy.
  • Spinal: of or belonging to the Back-bone.
  • Serous matter: wheyish, like whey.
  • Sutures: seams of the Head, where the parts of the skull are joined together.
  • Species of the Objects: representations of things seen. For the visible things themselves do not enter into the eyes, but certain images, and figures of them.
  • Scituation place or posture.
  • Species retained in the Mind: the shapes and patterns of things seen or heard &c.
  • State of the disease: is when it is at the highest and does neither encrease nor decrease.
  • Saphena: A vein of the foot which is usually opened in woemen; see Veslingus Anatomie in English.
  • Sal-prunellae: salf-peter purified with Brimstone Clean white salt Peter is as good for use, only the Chymists love to mend Magnificat and many times take great pains to little purpose.
  • Sphacelus: deadnes of any part, when the flesh and bone are dead; sphacelation signifies the same.
  • Superfluous: over much, unnecessary &c.
  • Speculum Oris: an Instrument wherewith the Mouth and throat is kept open, that the parts diseased may be seen and dealt with.
  • Scirrhus: an hard swelling without pa••••.
  • Suppurated: an Impostume is said to be suppura∣ted, when it gathers matter & enclines to break.
  • Suppuration: a collection of matter in an impo∣stume.
  • Suppression: stoppage.
  • Solution of continu••••ie: a dividing of such parts as were naturally united; so every wound and Sore, is called a solution of continuity &c.
  • Stupes: cow or Cotton-wooll.
  • Sealed Earth: Terra Sigillata, it is a kind of Medicinal Earth brought out of the straights & sealed in little flatt cakes, to avoid Imposture the Seal is wont to be the great Turks badg viz. the half moon.
  • Sparadrap: a cerecloath.
  • Sediment: the settlings and dregs of Urine or any other liquor.
  • Suppression: stoppage.
  • Sincere excrements; are such as are pure and unmixed, as choller alone &c.
  • Sudoroficks: medicines causing Sweat.
  • Suffocating, choaking, Suffocation a choaking.
  • Subject; a logical term, it signifies any thing that hath somwhat adjoined and annexed to it. So the Bodie is the subject of Sicknes & Health, of Beautie and deformity. The Head is the sub∣ject of paines, and other parts are the subject of other accidents. The Soul is the subject of vertues and Vices, of Happiness and Misery &c.
  • Suffusion: a shedding abroad of Humors; as when an Humor is shed abroad in the Eye and hinders the sight, it is called a suffusion.
  • A Seton is an Hole made in the skin and a skein

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  • of Silke, or yarn, or such like drawn thorough, and kept in, in which being removed dayly causes the matter and humor to come away.
  • Sulphurus and Bituminous bathes: that is hot bathes like those of Bath in Summerset-shire, whose Heat and virtue springs from a tincture of Brimstone and Bitumen which they bring out of the Earth.
  • Suppuration: is when a swelling comes to gather Head, breed matter and is ready to break.
  • Specifick quality: a peculiar hidden propertie, not springing from the first qualities.
  • Similar Diseases: are such as befall the substance of the Body, not considered as formed into any organ or limb or part; and they are al kind of Distempers. Organick diseases are such as are proper to the organs and Instruments of the Body as such, viz. what ever mar their Fa∣brick. Common diseases are such as are liable both to the Similary and Organick parts viz. So∣lutions of Unitie.
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  • Tablets: are the same with Lozenges: they are Medicines made up in flat four squar'd Cakes with acuted angles.
  • Torpor: numbness.
  • Transpiration: the passage of the vapours through the pores of the skin of the whol body invisib∣ly, onely causing a smell according to the hu∣mors, in some more in some less, in some of∣fensive in others not so.
  • Tumor: swelling.
  • Tincture: the virtue or strength of any thing drawn forth by steeping the same in spirit of wine, vinegar, or any percing liquor', the said Liquor containing the virtue and often∣times the Colour of that which was steeped in it is called the tincture thereof.
  • Tile tree: a Linden tree there grow two on New∣ington green they bear sweet blossomes.
  • Trepan: an Instrument made to bore an hole in the skull.
  • Turgent: swelling, working, moving too and fro spoken of the Humors of the Body when they are in a Combustion, and full of motion.
  • Tacamahaca: A sweet Gumm. See the Lon∣don Dispensatory in English.
  • Translation: carrying of an humor from one part to another.
  • Tunicles: little coats or skins of which the eye is partly made up. See the English Anatomy
  • Terminated: ended.
  • Topical Medicines: such as are outwardly ap∣plied to the part affected, or the part which sends the Humor &c.
  • Transparentnes: such a clearness as is in Glass, Horn, the Ayr, Fair water, or any other thing which we can see through.
  • Troches or Trochiscs, medicines made up in the form of little flat Bouls, whence they have their name.
  • Tunica retiformis: the net-like Coat or tunicle
  • Thorax: the Chest.
  • Trebble Quantity: thrice so much.
  • Tartarous matter: congealed hard matter like the hardned Lees of wine which are called Tartar.
  • Transpire: breath through.
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  • VErtigo: a swimming in the Head.
  • Vesitatoryes: a Medicine applied to the skin to cause a Blyster.
  • Vertebrae: the turning bones of the whol back.
  • Ventricles of the Brain: certain hollownesses of the Brain.
  • Venenosity: poysonfulness.
  • Vapors: Steams ascending into the Head, like the Steams we see mounting from a mess of hot Broth, or Meat, &c.
  • Vital function: faculty of the Heart causing Life, Pulse-beating, and Breathing.
  • Visive Nerve: the seeing Nerve. The Sinnew wherewith the Objects of sight are carried in∣to the Brain, to the Imagination or Common∣sence. See Veslingus Anatomy.
  • Vaporous Matter: steeming, reaking matter. See Vapors.
  • Ʋlcerated: having an Ulcer or running sore.
  • Visor, or Visive Spirits: the Spirit wherewith we see.
  • Ʋniversal evacuation: is a general purging of the whol body, all at once.
  • Vitrous Humor: a moisture like to molten-Glass. which goes into the making up of the Eye. See Veslingus Anatomy in English; and cut up an Eye of a Calf, Sheep, &c.
  • Ʋvea tunica: a coat of the Eye, resembling the skin of a Grape, from whence it is named. See Veslingus Anatomy in English.
  • Voluntary faculty: that power of our Body which works according as we please; as the power of going, running, speaking, &c. whereas the powers of beating in the Pulse, of digesting in the Stomach, and Eiver, of making blood, flash, fat, &c. do not work according to our wills. The former we can exercise, or suspend, and moderate them as we please, but the lat∣ter not: which are therefore termed involun∣tary.
  • Ʋvula or Columella: the Pallate of the mouth.
  • A Vehicle: that which serves to carry.
  • Vermicular: Worm-like. The Pulse is so cal∣led, when it is weak, and lifts it self unequally, sometimes more, sometimes less; like the cree∣ping of a Catterpillar.
  • Ʋreters: certain long pipes or passages, which bring the Urine from the Kidney to the Blad∣der. See Veslingus Anatomy in English.

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  • Viscous, cleaving and roaping, like Birdlime.
  • Vicissitude, the following of one thing upon the neck of another.
  • Venery: Letchery, the immoderate exercise or doating upon such Acts as tend to Generation.
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  • WIld-Poppies. Red-Poppies which grow among Corn, called likewise Corn-Rose.
  • Watry Humor: a certain liquor like water, which goes into the Composition of the Eye, See Veslingus Anatomy in English.
  • Water-Gate: the Privities in Women.
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  • ZAcutus Lusitanus: a famous Physitian; A Jew that pacticed at Amsterdam in Hol∣land. He has wrote divers excellent. Treatises of Physick, sutable to the Principles of Hip∣pocrates and Galen.

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