A Physical Dictionary: OR, An Interpretation of such crabbed Words and Terms of Arts, as are derived from the Greek or Latin, and used in physic, Anatomy, Chirurgery, and chemistry. With a defini●ion of most Diseases incident to the Body of Man; and a description of the Marks and Characters used by Doctors in their Receipts. This Dictionary will be as useful and sufficient to all our late English Practitioners in physic or Chirurgery( especially such as are not Scholars) as any Dictionary of Ten Shillings Price. Approved by several Doctors, Surgeons and Apothecaries: And Recommended by them in an Epistle to all English Practitioners in physic and Chirurgery. London, Printed by G. D. for John Garfield, and are to be sold at his Shop at the si●n of the Rolling-Press for Pictures, near the Royal Exchange in cornhill, over against Popes-head-alley. 1657. To all English Practitioners in physic, Anatomy, Chirurgery, and chemistry. HOw great the necessity is, of having a physical DICTIONARY for explaining hard Words and terms of Art in the Medicinal Sciences of P●ysick, chirurgery, and chemistry; such as are versed in the understanding those most useful, mysterious and noble Arts, do very well know: It is intended for such Persons as spend their time and employment in studying physic, and are acquainted with no other than their Mother tongue; yet, many times more readily Cure a Disease, by their observant, diligent, and strict keeping to an approved Medicine, than many others, that trust wholly to their Art: Therefore, for the help of charitable and honestmeaning People, this Dictionary was Compiled, which hath in it as much as is necessary for understanding hard Words in the forementioned Arts, being freed from that troublesone and superfluou● Number of unnecessary Words, which serve for nothing but to swell up the Bulk and Price of Books. And thus much we have thought fit,( English Reader) to say unto thee in Commendation of this best of Physical Dictionaries. George Starky, Doctor of physic. George Thornley, Doctor of physic Thomas Herbert, Student in physic and astrology. John Rowland, Doctor of physic. John Hawkins, chirurgeon. John Roane, chirurgeon. John Beach, Student in physic and Surgery. Philip Frith, Student in physic and Astrology. Ralph Wood all, chirurgeon. John Bryan, Student in physic. Anthony row, chirurgeon. John North, Apothecary. John Straw, Practioner in physic. John Harvy, Apothecary. THE STATIONER TO HIS COUNTRY-MEN. Kind countrymen, THe Explaining the Art of physic, having found so welcome Entertainment, I hope for the like friendly acceptance amongst you, having preserved this Dictionary for your Good, which others would have deprived you of, wherein such difficult terms as are derived from the Greek or Latin, and dark to the English Reader, are made English; and such Marks and Characters as are used by Physitians and Apothecaries in their Receipts explained; and for your ease and better understanding, put down the signification of their Weights and Measures according to their Characters: with a definition of most Diseases incident to the body of man. And whereas there are many Words in Mr. Tomlinson's Translation of Rhaenodaeus Dispensatory, not understood by any ordinary Scholars( much less such as are not) I have caused them to be explained by able persons, well acquainted with the practise of physic, so that the meanest Capacity, by making use thereof, may rightly understand whatever difficult expressions he shall meet withal in the said Dispensatory. Your Friend, a●d Servant, Joh. Garfield. THE EXPLANATION OF Weights and Measures. A Handful is written thus, M. 1. Half an Handful thus, M. ss. A little small Handful thus, P 1. A Scruple thus, ℈ 1. Half a Scruple, 10 Gra. or thus, ℈. ss. A Drachum thus, ʒ. 1. An Ounce thus, ℥. 1. Half an Ounce, or half a Drachm thus, ℥. ss. ʒ ss. A Grain thus, Gra. 1. A Drop thus, Gut. 1. The Number of any thing thus, Numb. 1. &c. Half of any thing thus, ss. A Pound, or Pint thus, lb. 1. Twenty Grains, make a Scruple. Three Scruples, make a Drachm. Eight Drachms, make an Ounce. Twelve Ounces, a Physical Pound. Ana, is, of either of them so much. P. ae. is, equal parts, or parts alike. S. a. secundum artem, according to art. Q. s. so much as is sufficient. Viz. that is to say. ℟. recipe, take. A PHYSICAL Dictionary. A ABdomen, the Belly or Paunch. Abeston, a ston found in Arabia, of the colour of Iron, which being once set on fire can hardly be quenched. Ablegate, remove, turn out, sand forth, or out of the way. Ablution, washing. Abortion, miscarrying in Women, when the Child is born so long before the time, that it's in no capacity to live. Abscescus, an impostume or Botch. Abscinded, cut off. Absinthites, Wormwood-Wine. Abstergent, cleansing forth, scouring away filth. Abstersive, cleansing or wiping away. Absumed, taken away. Acatia, a little Thorn growing in Egypt, out of the leaves ●nd fruit whereof they draw juice or black liquour, which being dried is called Acatia, and is very astrictive or binding; our Apothecaries have seldom the right Acatia, but instead thereof use the juice of Sloes. Accended, burned. Access, a fit of an Ague, Gout, &c. Accelerator, in plain English, an hastener: Physically it is used for the Muscle that opens the passage of the Seed, and Urine. Acerb, sour, or sharp. Acetum, Vinegar of Beer. Acetaries, salads, or Herbs mixed with Vinegar to stir up appetite▪ Acetum Vini, Vinegar of Wine. Acetum destillatum, Distilled Vinegar. Acetabula, see Cotylidones. anchor vel tinea, or scald▪ head, is a Disease possessing the musculous skin of the head, or hairy scalp, and eating thereinto like a Moth. Accidents, something n●cessarily accompanying a Disease,. Acquires, obtains. Acrimony, sharpness, or fretting of any sharp or corrosive water, or humour of the body. Aconite, a venomous herb having a root like to a Scorpion, shining within like Alabaster. Acuminated, sharp pointed. Acute, Diseases, such as are sharp and violent, but of short continuance. Adamant, A precious ston, commonly called a Diamond, brought from Arabia and Cyprus. Its the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth Glass, and yieldeth neither to the hammer nor fire, yet it may be dissolved with warm Goatsblood. Adeps, fatness. Adjacent, near adjoining. Adjection, casting, or adding to. Adimpleates, fills up. Adjuvant causes, such as are subservient to the principal causes. Adjument, help and relief. Adjuncts, qualities, dispositions, and symptoms annexed to a Disease. Adjutorious, helpful. Admixtion, mingling together. Adscitious, false, counterfeit. Adulation, flattery. Adust, the blood is then said to be adust, when by reason of extraordinary heat the thinner parts are evaporated, and the thicker remain black and dreggy. Adustion, burning of the blood. Adulterate, corrupt, or counterfeit. Adventitious, not natural, but proceeding from some Cause existing without the proper body. Adstriction, binding, or shutting up the pores of the skin. Aegilops, fistula lacrymalis, a tumour in the great corner of the Eye, by the root of the Nose. Aestuary, an hot-house, or Stove. Affectus animi affectionis, motions, or passions of the mind. affencted, troubled, or distempered. Afflux, flowing to any particular part. Agaric, a kind of unhandsome, or Toad-stool, of great use in physic: it grows upon the Larch three in Italy, and is white, light, brittle, and spungeous; it purgeth phlegm, and opens obstructions in the Liver. Agitation, shaking any liquour together in a glass. Ahenum, a brass skillet with a cover. Ablution, is exaltation, cleansing impure things by often infusion reducing them to purity. Albation, is the abstraction of Dust, moths, great, cleaving to a thing, with a Hares foo●, feather, spather, or such like. Albugo, is the white spot in the Eye, called, pin and web. Alacrity, cheerfulness. alchemy, is an art dissolving natural congealed substances, and likewise congealed substances dissolved for the more grateful, wholesome, safe preparing of Medicines for mans body, an art which produces magisterial and essential medicines from mixed bodies. Alkakengie, winter Cherries, the read round ber●ies whereof are good against obstructions of the Liver, the ston, and divers diseases of the kidneys and Bladder. Alcolismus, is an operation by calcination, ribellation, and other means which reduceth a matter into Allcool, the finest powder that is. Alexipharmaca, Medicines to resist the plague, and poison. Aliment, food, nourishment. Aliotica, altering Medicines. Alopecia, a falling off of the hair. Alumen, raw alum. Alumen combustum, burnt alum. Aloes Zoccatrina, itis brought from India: the best is clear and read like the liver: itis an excellent medicine to purge choler, and proper to be taken by them that are troubled with the Emrods. Allantois, the skin that holds the Urine of the Child during the time it abides in the womb. Allauded, praised, commended. Alteratives, medicines changing the humour and temper of the body. Amalgamation, is the putting together, solution, or calcination of familiar vessels by argentum vivum. Amaritude, bitterness. Amaurosis Gutta serena, A disease in the eyes, viz. when the sight is gone, and no fault to be seen. Ammoniac, a gum like frankincense, so called, because it grows in Lybia where the Temple of Ammon stood: Hence is also a Salt so called found in Affrick, under the sand. Amnios, the inner skin that compasseth the Child round in the womb. Amputation, dismembering, or cutting off the arm, leg, &c. Amulet, any thing hanged about the neck to preserve one from enchantment. Analeptica, restorative Medicines. Analogical, answerable in every particular. Anastomasis, an opening of the mouths of the veins. Anastomaticum, Medicine opening obstructions. Anatomy, is an artificial cutting of the outward & inward parts. Aneurism, a swelling caused by the breaking the internal coat of an Artery, the external being whole. Anfractures, turning and winding. Angina, a swelling in the throat, which hinders breathing and swallowing, and yet no defect in the lungs or breasts. Animosity, courage, stoutness. Anodines, Medicines to assuage pain. Anorexia, a loathing of meat caused from abundance of crude and raw humors. Anthera, a Compound medicine used for ●ore mouths. Anthrax, a Carbuncle coming from blood which is black, thick and filthy, burning exceeding hot. Anthonies fire, the shingles. Antidote, a Medicine against poison, or any medicine which serves to amend any distemper of the body. Antimony, a Mineral, like to led. Antimonii vitrum, Glass of Antimony or Stibium. Antimonii Regulus, Antimony preciptiate. Antinomasia, a naming before, or that of any sort which is most excellent, as Barbary gold, Orient pearl, &c. Anus, the fundament. Apertion, opening. Apophlegmatisms, Medicines which draw phlegm from the head. Apoplexy, a deep sleep wherein there is a total privation of sense and motion, except breathing. Apostema Hepatis, the Aposthume of the Liver which comes from a fall, bruise, or being too straight laced. Appellations, Names. Apothects, an Apothecaries▪ shop. Apozem, a Drink made with Water and divers herbs and spices, used in stead of a syrup. Aprique place, where the Sun shines. Appropinquating, adjoining, bordering near, Neighbourhood. Aptha, certain Ulcers bread in the uppermost part of the mouth. Aqua fortis, strong Water made of copperess, alum, and saltpeter. Aqua Regis, a Water which divides Gold, made after the manner of Aqua fortis, only adding sal Armoniack. Aquatical, Which grows in the Water. Aranea tunica, the cobweb, coat, or tunicle. Arbuscle, a little shrub. Arceates, drives away. Ardent, burning, or heating. Arid, dry. Aromata, Spices and sweetsmelling drugs, or perfumes. Aromatical, smelling sweet like spice. Aromatized, spiced, or perfumed. Aromatization, is an artificial manner of p●eparation whereby Medicaments are made more sweet to the smell, and acceptable to the taste, and more comfortable to the heart: it is done by spices commonly. Arsenicum, arsenic, many ways a good healer. Arteries, proceed from the heart are in a continual motion, quicken the body, they carry the vital blood to every part of the body; their motion is that which is called the Pulse: you may feel it at your Temples, Wrist, Groin, &c. Arthetical, Medicines proper for the joints; especially for the heart. Arthritis, is a pain in the joints which comes for the most part by fits, stirred up by an influx of humors into the said joints; but in plain terms the Gout. Arthritical, Gouty persons. Arthrodia, is a Ligament, which conjoyns the head of the bone, which is of it's self little, and that stands in shallow cavity. Articles, joints. Arundinaceous, resembling reeds, or reedy. Ascharides, Worms in the arse-gut. Ascites, is a swelling of the belly caused of a serous matter, sometimes from a swelling in the teeth. Assation, roasting. Assumed, taken inwardly. Asthma, shortness of breathing, viz. when the breath is hindered by the sympathy or propriety of the part. Astmatical, short breathed. Astringent, Medicines that bind or close up the pores of the skin, or that bind the belly. Astrictive, binding. atoms, Motes. Atrophy, a Consumption. Attenuating, or making thin. Attracteth, draweth together, or to its self. Attraction, The drawing quality of any thing, as the Loadstone draweth Iron. Attrition, rubbing or grinding, a certain manner of preparation, like grinding on some convenient ston with some humidity, whereby Lapis Judaicus, Collyria, and the like, are prepared. Augmentation of a Disease, is, until it comes to its worst state. Austere, sour. Auricles, the ears. Auriculum, a Chalx that contains gold, gold calcined to powder. Auripigmentum, Orpiment of a deadly taste, yet used outwardly in medicines. Axilla, the arm-pit. Axungia, Hogs-grease. Azure, an excellent blue colour. B Balm, a precious liquour or juice, otherwise called balsamum, or opobalsamum: It dropeth by cutting out of a little low Plant about a yard high, having leaves like Rue, but whiter; which plant groweth in Egypt, and some places of the Holyland: This juice is somewhat like oil, but more clammy, and inclining to a certain redness: It hath a strong smell, and no very pleasant taste: being dropped into a vessel of Water, it will sink down to the bottom like a round pearl, and may be taken up again on the point of a knife: itis excellent to take away a skar, and many other purposes: but it's very dear, and hard to be gotten. Balneum Mariae, a pot of seething Wa●er, whereinto is set a vessel containing any fit matter to be distilled, or digested. Balneum sulphureum, a Bath which hath the virtues of brimstone. Basilisk, a Cockatrice, the most venomous Serpent that is; it kills a man with its very sight( as some say) but by its breath infallibly: it's about a foot long, with a black and yellow skin, and fiery read eyes. Bdellion, Bdellium, the name of a gum brought out of Arabia and the Holy-land, of a sweet smell, and bitter taste; its virtues are to mollify hard swellings, and is good against stiffness of sinews, or other parts, and against the biting of venomous beasts. Bechichal, Confections, Medicines, or Electuaries made for the Cough. Benedicta laxativa, a purging Electuary. Benign Medicaments, gentle, harmless Medicines▪ Benzwine, a sweet smelling Gum of many signal virtues. Brillus, a precious ston called beryl. bezoar, a ston of excellent virtue against poison, of the bigness of an Acorn, dissolved it may be in Water, it's taken out of a Beast in India of the same name, and is exceeding dear. Biles, Tumours, or knots. Bilious, choleric. Bitumen, a kind of natural Lime and day, clammy like pitch; it grows in some Countries of Asia: it's of a bright c●e●r purple colour, and of a strong smell; the black is accounted nought. There is also a liquid bitumen in sicily used instead of lamp-oyl. Blanching, is the separation of the skins and hulls from divers seeds and kernels, as Almonds, pease, barley, &c. and it's done by steeping them in hot Water, after which the hulls or peels will slip off by rubbing with your thumb. Bolus, a morsel, or lump of a soft Medicine to be swallowed down. Bolus armenus, Bole-armoniack, is cordial, drying, healing, and cooling. Bonity, Goodness. Borax venetiae, Borax. Breathing a vein, is bloodletting properly, where but little blood is taken away. Bronchia, the hollow pipes which are dispersed through the substance of the Lungs, being branches of the wind-pipe. Bronchochele, the rapture of the throat, a great round swelling in the throat. Buccellation, is dividing into gobbets, or by piece-meals. Buglossum vinum, Wine made of Bugloss. C Cacoethe, is a species of the canker, and so poisonous, that it continueth with one all his life time, being by most held incurable. Cachechtial persons, such as are bloat up with a moist wi●dy humour, and have a pale ill colour in their faces. Cachectical, an evil habit of body. Cadmia nativa, a kind of mineral. Cadmia officinarum, Tutty. Caducus morbus, the fallingsickness. Caeliaca, the Arteries of the stomach, which accompany the branches of the Gate-vein. Calcanthum Vitriolum, copperess, or Vitriol. Calcedonius, a precious ston. Calcination, a burning to ashes by drying up of the native moisture by reverberate ignition, by putting them together with aqua fortis, the spirit of salt, vitriol, sulphur, &c. Calamine, the oar of brass much used among chirurgeons. calamities, rana viridis, a green Frog. Calefaction, is a certain way of preparing Medicines, simplo or compound, by a moderate heat of the Sun, fire, or horsedung. Calefactive, heating. Calefy, that maketh warm. Caliginous, dim, dark sighted. Callous, hard, brawny. Calx coma, is abstersive, drying, healing. Calx viva, Quick lime used chiefly in caustic Medicines. camphor, a strong smelling juice, or sap of a three in India. Cancer, is a hard tumour, rough and unequal, round and unmovable, of an ash or liquid colour. Canina fames, Cynorexia, Dogs appetite, unnatural hunger. Cantharides, Spanish flies of a golden colour. Carabe, Amber. Carbo, Carbunculus, a Plagu●sore, or Botch. Carbunculus, Anthracites, A Carbuncle ston coming out of the Indies. Cardamomum, a spice. Cardiack passion, passions of the heart. Cardiaca, the median or livervein. Cardialgia, distempers, or griefs of the heart. Cardiacks, things proper to the heart, or Cordials. Cardiogmos, heart-burning. Carenum mus●um ad tertias coctum, Must, or new Wine, boiled till the third part remain. Carmina●ing Medicines, are such as break wind. Carnose, Fleshy. Carpobalsamum, the fruit of balsamum. Caryophillum, Cloves. Carus, rottenness, or corruption of a Bone. Car●ncle, a bit of flesh growing out on any part of the body. Cassia flos, prepared Cassia of excellent use in physic, it being as harmless and gentle a purge as is. Castigation, Correction, chast●en 〈…〉. Catagmaticks, Medicines to consolidat●, or knit together broken bones. Catagma ossium, fractura, A fracture of the bones. Catalepsis, numbness, or stiffness, with which whosoever is taken, he retains the same figure of the parts of the body which he had when he was taken, whether sitting, or lying. Catapasms, sweet powders. Cataphora, a dead sleep. Cataplasm, a pultise. Catopotium pillula, a Pill, or little ball. cathartics, purging Medicines. Catarrh, a flowing, or distilling of humors from the brain upon the Lungs, causing a cough. Catheter, an hollow instrument to thrust into the yard when the urine is stopped by stones or gravel lying in the passage. Catholicon, an universal Medicine. Catoche & Catalepsis, a strange kind of disease, and seldom heard of. Cavity, hollowness. Caulicles, little stalks. Cavous, hollow. Causos, ardens f●bris, continua tertiana, a continual tertian, or burning Fever. caustic, Medicines to burn the skin, to make issues, &c. Cautery actual, burning with a read hot iron. Celebrious, frequent, eminent. Cementum, a mineral matter like lute. Cementation, is the softening an hard thing till it be like soft Wax before the fire. Center, the point in a circumference. Cephalalgia, headache. Cephalica, the head-vein Cephalaea, capitis dolor diuturnus, a continual headache. Cerates, Cerecloaths used against inflammations and vomitings. Cerasites, Wine made of Cherries. Cereb●llum, or After-brain▪ in Greek parencephalis is as i● were a private and small brai● seated in the back and lower par● of the skull under the brain. Cerotum or Ceratum, a plaster made of oil and wax. Cerussa venetiae, Venice ceruce, it is healing, cooling, and drying: White led. Cervicornula tenella, Hartshorn. Ceterach, Finger-fern, An Herb that hath neither stalk, flower, nor seed: it's much used in agues, against the black jaundice, quartan agues, and stoping of the spleen. Chalibeate liquour, is such as hath had steel quenched in it. Chalisticum, a Medicine to provoke heat. Chermes, Granum tinctorum, Couchenil. Chiragra, the gout in the fingers. Chlorosis, the green-sickness, the Virgins Disease; the pale colour of Virgins: the White jaundice. Cholerica passio, a great pain in the Belly with pricking and shooting, and avoiding of choler, both by vomit and stool. Chologogon, purging choler. Chondril, an Herb like Succory. Chondrus, Cartilago, a gristle. Chorion, the outward skin which compasseth the Child in the womb. Chronical diseases, are diseases which last a great while, as Consumptions, &c. Chrysocal, a kind of Mineral found like sand in the veins of some Metals. Chylus, the food in the Stomach, by the first digestion turned into a white cream, or pap. Chylosis, the hurt concoction of the stomach. chirurgery, an Art teaching the cure of all the pains and infirmities of the body by the right use of the hand. Clyptica, Medicines to cleanse and beautify the skin. cicatrise, the scar at closing up of a wound, or sore. Cinefaction, a reducing unto ashes. Cinnamon, a sweet smelling bark, very well known. Cinaper, Vermilion. Cinnabaris Indica, sanguis Draconis, a liquid gum brought out of India. Cinneres ligni, ashe● of wood of which abundance of Medicines of worth are made, both in physic and Chirurgery. Circulation, a chemical operation wherein the matter to be circulated is enclosed in a glass ●ody, and a blind head being luted on, and the glass placed in horse-dung, as fast as the Spirits or moisture ascend up into the head, finding no vent, they fall down from whence they came, and this is called Circulation because the vapour moves round in the head of the glass. Circumcinge, environ, encompass about, or round. Circumduce, to carry about, as the hand is carried about in grinding upon a marble ston. Circumforaneous, idle, wandring, prating knaves Circumvolution, turning about. Circundated, encompassed. Citta, Pica malacia, the affections of a longing in Women with child. Citrine, yellow. Civet, a sweet substance like Musk, which yet is but the turd of a little Beast like a Cat. Clarification, purging of liquid medicaments from their dregs and grosser matters, that so they may be more acceptable to the palate, and more easily distributed. Climacterical, every seventh year of a mans life. Clavicles, or Coller bones, termed in Greek cleides, because they shut up the whole chest. Clement, gentle. Clinica, a Woman Doctor. Clitoris, is a sinewy part in the Womb of a Woman. Coacted, penned up, kept together by force. Coadunation( sometimes termed by the name of a more excellent species, Coagulation) is a perfect and skilful working whereby such things as disagree ●re united. Coagmentation, like to Glutination, is by liquate things, to which dissolving powders are cast, and afterwards are made concrete by laying them in a could place, or by evaporating their moisture. Coagulum, the Rennet that turneth milk. Coagulated, curdled. Coagulation, is the forcing of things agreeing in nature from a thin and fluid consistence into a solid Mass by the privation of moisture. Coalition, the uniting, or healing up, or growing together of the lips of a wound, or ulcer, or any other part that should be open. Coarctation, a straining or pressing together. Co●uscateth, shineth. Coction of humors, is their separation from the mass of good blood, and preparation for expulsion. Cocted, digested. Cognation, affinity, or likeness. Cohibit, That doth restrain. Cohobation, when the distilled liquour is often poured on its faeces and distilled again. Coincide, the falling in, or hapening of divers things together at once. Coindicants, divers indications or signs in a disease, shew●ng, or pointing to one and the ●he same remedy for the cure. Colation, the sending of that ●hich is moist through a strain●r, that the liquour may be had ●parated from a drier sub●ance. Colatorie, a streiner. Colature, straining. Colcothar, a good caustic medicine; for it is of a cooling, drying, healing, and cleansing quality. Collyries, Medicines for the eyes, particularly ointments. Collyrium, an eye-pleasing. Collysion, a breaking, bruising, or knocking together. Colon, the Gut that is the seat of the disease called the colic. colic, so called from the gut colon, which is the part affencted, and is long, winding, and ordained for receiving the excrements of almost all the body: the retaining these excrements too long, cause this pain. Colliquation, or colliquefaction, is the joining of many fufils or liquables to make one compound by eliquation on the f●●e. Collumella, inflammation: see Uvula. Collusions, filth, impurity. Coloration, is whereby the perfect colour of gold, silver, Philosophers, and such-like obscured by any sulphurous vapour is renewed and made bright by maceration, frequent ablution in any sharp liquour or salt, argal, spirit of wine-vinegar. Coloquintida, a kind of gourd which the Persians call gull of the Earth, because it destroys all herbs near which it groweth; it's a very dangerous purge, yet frequently used. Colourated, coloured. Coma vigil, waking coma is a disease in which the patient lieth with his eyes shut as if he were asleep, when he is awake and distracted. Combustion, see cinefaction. Combustible, is that which will burn. Comitialis morbus, epilepsia, the Falling sickness. Comitate, accompany. Commaculate, to defile, or stick to the fingers. Comminution, is the reducing of any matter into such fine powder by dilation, filteration, exi●cation, confusion, calcination, cribration, that no roughness or corpulency be felt. Commissura, the mould of the head where the parts of the skull are united. Commutation, change, alteration. Compact, close, solid, united together. Complexion, is the nature of a part, hot, could, or dry. Complication of diseases, when divers Diseases afflict the patient at one and the same time, Composition, is the putting together of divers things. Compression, a thrusting or pressing any thing har●● together. Concave, ulcers, hollow ulcers. Conception, is from a mingling of seeds in the womb, which is the most noble nurse, gathering and contracting itself exactly, that it will not admit the point of a needle, then the womb rouseth and raiseth up the sleepy and lurking power of the seeds, so that that which was before but potential it bringeth into act. Concretation, wrangling Disputes. Concinnated, made fit for the purpose, trimmed, appareled. Conciliating, causing, persuading, procuring by fair means. Concertion, is divaporation of humidity in fluid things by gentle decoction on fire. Concocted, digested. Concords, equalities. Concrete juices, juices of plants that were once liquid, but for their better preservation are hardened either in the Sun or by the fire. Condense, thick, hard. Condiloma, a swelling of the fundament. Condiments, sauces. Conditure, the art of preserving. Conficted, mingled. ●onfirmed, A Disease is said to be confirmed, when the symp●oms that distinguish it to be of such or such a particular di●●●se do appear. Co●f●ication, rubbing or grinding. Confusion, is properly a mixture of such things as are fluid. Congelation, benumning, unsuitablenesse, a freezing together with could. Congestion, a gathering together, or heaping up. Conglomerated, heaped together. Conglutination, is the compacting of Metals, jewels, glasses, &c. by gums, glue, whites of eggs, and the like; the nature of the conglutinated remaining: a glueing together. Conjugations, or pairs of nerves. Conjunctiva, a coat of the eye so called, because it sticks fast to the eye, and helps it in its place. Conquash, mash together. Consentaneous, agreeable consonant. Consistence, the thickness or thinness of any substance or liquour. Consolidation, closing up a sore or wound. Consopiated, lulled asleep. Consternation, fear, astonishment. Constipation, stoping up. Constitution, the complexion or temperament of the body. Contagion, infection. Continuity, an oneness, or one continued quantity without interruption. Contorsion, a wresting or drawing awry. Contracted, shrunk or drawn together. Contraindicants, are such indications as forbid such or such a course to be used. Contumacy, stubbornness, and that will not be wrought upon by the medicine. Contunding, pounding, beating. Contusion, bruising, a bruise, also a beating of very thick bodies into very subtle parts. Conus, a geometrical figure resembling a sugar-loaf. Convex, standing out like the back-side of a buckler or platter. Convulsio, spasmus, a convulsion or cramp. Copal, white Rosin, very bright. Cophosis, is when the hearing is totally gone, so that the patient either heareth no noise, or if he do, he cannot distinguish. Copiously, plentifully. Corda barbarorum, nervus, A sinew. Cordis palpitatio, panting, or beating of the heart. Coronal suture, the seam which divides the skull of the head in two parts. Cornea, the coat of the eye of a horny substance. Corpulent, fat, thick, gross. Corpus callosum, a thick body, it is a part belongs to the brain. Corpus varicosum, is an interweaving of the veins and arteries which carry the vital and natural blood to the stones to make Seed of. Corpulent, fat, gross. coral, is cordial, cooling, drying, and prepared chemically hath a wonderful comforting virtue in it; yet the read coral far exceeds it. Corroding, biting and freting. Corosion, is calcination, reducing things coagulated by the corroding spirits of salt, sulphur, wine vinegar distilled, aqua fortis, &c. into ashes. Cortices, barks, peels, the outward rind. Corymbiferous, bearing berries. Coriza or pose, is a catarrh falling from the brain into the nose. Cotylidones, in latin acetabula, the joining of the ends of two pair of veins,( one coming from the spermatical, another from the hypogastrical branch) with the mouths of the umbilical vein, making a connexion between the mother and the infant. Couched with a needle, that is, something taken away with a needle from the eye, or pressed down. Cranium, the brain. crass, gross, thick, dull, heavy. Crassamen, or crassamentum, Wine lees. Crassitude, thickness or grosseness. Cremaster, is the muscle that holds up the stones. Cremor, the top or flower of any liquour or cream of milk, yeast, the juice of steeped barley, &c. Cribration, sifting. Crisis, the sign of natures victory over the disease, whereby is judged, Whether the disease will prove deadly or dangerous to the patient. Critical day, is every seventh day in Fevers, wherein appears some remarkable or eminent accident, serving to show, Whether Nature or the Disease be in most probability to get the victory, and these accidents are either some swelling, evacuation, bleeding, or other great change, to the better or worse, whereby the patient is judged in a condition hopeful or hopeless. Crocus martis, saffron of iron, good against all fluxes. Crocus veneris, saffron of copper or refined verdigris, it expelleth, drieth, cleanseth, and healeth. chronic diseases, such as continue a long time. crystalline, an humour in the eye resembles a little cake of crystal, if you open a Calves eye carefully, you may take it out whole. Cruciate, to torment, afflict, put to pain, to grieve, or vex. Crucible, a glass wherein things are burnt to prepare them for beating to powder. Cubebs, A certain fruit sold by Apothecaries like Pepper, it comes out of India: itis hot and dry, it comforts the brain and quickens the spirits being chewed in the mouth. Crude, raw, undigested which happens to the blood, or to the meat in the stomach. Cruent, bloody. Cucupha, Caps quilted with medicinal things, as dried rosemary, &c. Culins, stalks Culinary, belonging the kitchen. Cumulation, congestion. Cultellated, made sharp, edged. Cultivate, to manure, till, dress the earth, to improve or better any soil or grain. Cupping glass, is a glass fastened to the skin with lighted tow, or flax, to draw blood, or raise a blyster. Cummin, one of the four greater hot seeds: itis hot and dry, good to break or dissolve windiness in the body. Cutchoneal, a Drug brought from beyond Sea of great use in physic, it being an excellent cordial. Cuticle, scarf-skin, the first containing or investing part which runs upon the surface of the skin. Cydoniatum, conserve of quinces called marmalade. Cynorexia, appetitus caninus, a greediness and unnatural appe●●e of meat. D Dandril, scales of the head, beard, and eye-brows. Daphnaelion Oleum Laurinum, oil of Bays. Dation, the quantity or dosis of any medicament that is administered to the patient at once. Dealbate, that maketh white. Debility, a weak state of body. Declination, is that time of a disease which follows that we call the state, the going away of a disease. Decoctio Epythemi, the Decoction of Dodder. Decoction, the liquour or broth wherein are boiled herbs and other simples to serve as the basis or foundation of many medicines. Decorticated, stripped of their skins, peels, or barks. Deduce, draw to and fro. Definitly, exactly, particularly. Defluxion, the flowing of humors to any particular part. Deject, cast out. Deleates, takes away. Deletary, poisonous, destructive. Deliquation, is the preparatiof things melted on the fire. Deliquium, is the liquation of a concrete( as salt powder calcined) set in a moist place. Delirium, raving, and frenzy, a talking idly in sickness. Demerged, plunged under water. demoniac, one possessed with a devil. Demonstrated, proved to the sense beyond contradiction. Denigrate, that maketh black. Denominated, so called. Dentifrice, such things wherewith the teeth are rubbed to make them white. Depose, put off. Depraved, wicked, vile, base. Depurges, draws forth. descension, is when the essential juice dissolved from the matter to be distilled is brought back and doth descend. Despumation, a scumming or taking off the froth. Despumed, purged, clarified. Detersory, cleansing. Detriment, hurt or damage. Deturpates, fouleth, defileth, makes filthy. Diabetes, a continual and unnatural making of water, after which there comes a violent thirst, and consuming of the whole body. Diacatholicon, an Electuary much used in physic, so called because it serves as a gentle purge for all humors. Diagnosticks, signs whereby is known the disease which the patient hath. Diagalanga, a confection of hot spices, good against the wind colic and could distempers of the inward parts. Diagridiates, medicines that have scamonny or diagridium in their composition. Diagridium, Scammony is the juice of a foreign plant dried, itis a most strong and violent purge, being boiled in a Quince it is in part corrected, which when itis thus prepared Apothecaries call diagridium. Diamond, a well known jewel or precious ston. Diapasm, medicinal powders, unguents or lineaments used for delicacy, and perfume. Diapedisis, the sweeting of blood through the pores of the veins. Diaph●nicon, an electuary used by physitians to purg● phlegm and choler. diaphoretics, medicines provoking sweat. Diapnaetica, medicines that bring a tumour to suppuration that it breaks a sore. Diaphragma, the midriff, a skin that separateth the stomach and breast from the belly. Diaprunum, an electuary made of Damask prunes and divers other simples, good to cool th● body in hot burning fevers. Diar●haea, a looseness of th● belly, by which the excrementitio●s humors are sent forth without blood or food, and without the Ulceration of the Intestines. Diasena, a purging electuary, good against quartan Agues, and all other Diseases proceeding from melancholy. Diatraganth, a Confection of Gum Traganth, and other simples, good against hot diseases of the breast. Diet, signifieth most commonly a diet drink. Difflation, is when through heat, spirits arising, and with a kind of bellows blown in the adverse Camaera, and there are found congulated. Diffoded, digged, as a hole or ditch is digged in the earth. Diffused, dispersed, scattered, or spread. Digestive medicines, are such as prepare evil humors to be purged out of the body. Digestion, is simplo maturation, whereby things unconcocted in artificial digestry heat( as food by natural heat in the stomach) is digested. Dignotion, the searching out of any kind of knowledge. Dilacerat, to tear, to rend in pieces. Dilated, enlarged, made wider, or opened. Dilucidely, clearly, plainly. Dilutely, shining bright. Discuss, is to dissolve a swelling insensibly by degrees without breaking the skin, or causing a sore, as many knavish Surgeons do for their private gain. Discussive, that disperseth, dissolves, unlooseth. Dislocation, putting out of joint. Dispel, to thrust, drive, or put away. Disquisition, a search, or enquiry. Dissentany, things disagreeable. Dissipated, diffused, or spread abroad. Dissect, to cut in pieces, to open, to cleave in sunder. Dissite, remote. Dissoluble, in a possibility of being dissolved. Dissolution, is a preparation of Medicine simplo and compounded by some convenient moisture to a certain consistence. Dissolved, itis used to be spoken of dissolving hard knots, kernels, or swelling by application of outward medicines, and internally by dispersing any coagulation, or gathering together of humors by diet drinks. Distemper, any excess of heat or could in the body of man. dissension, stretching. Distillation, is a flowing down of thin humors from the brain into several parts; also a separation of things pure from things impure. Distillatio per descensum, is when the liquour drawn from the distilled materials falls down into a vessel placed below that which contains the matter, the particular way and manner hereof is to be sought in the books of chemists. Distortion, writhen, or turned from the natural place and situation in the body. Distraction, is a disuniting of divers things before uniting and agreeing. Diutur●ity, long continuance of time. Diuretical, Medicines to provoke urine. Divaporation, is exhalation by fire of vapour. Diverting medicines, which turn aside the course of the humour, so that it doth not run to any particular part, which the residence of that humour hath made the seat of a disease. Dolor aurium, pain in the ears from could winds; it happens to many through a hot distemper or inflammation, and sometimes sharp and biting humors cause pain in the ears. Dolor nephriticus, ston in the Kidneys, and pain in the Reins, the vulgar call it stone-chollick, because of the great affinity it hath with the colic. Dose, the quantity of any medicine usually prescribed to be taken at one time, so much as may safely be given at once. Dolor ventriculi, is a sad and troublesone sense in that part from some things that gnaw and stretch it till it break or be wounded. Dropax, is a topical medicament, sometimes hard like a salue, sometimes soft as a pultise as the case requires: itis proper use is in long tedious diseases. Dulciaries, sweetners, such things as sweeten. Dulcification, is the correcting of mineral medicines by Ablutions, &c. Dulcity, sweetness. Dulcoacid, sweet, and yet sharp, as syrup of Lemons. Dulco-amare, bitterish sweet. Dulcorate, sweeten. Duration. when things molli●●ed at the fire, are set in a could place, and harden. Durity, hardness. Disepulotica, an hard dry scar, after the healing of an Ulcer. Dyspepnia, ill concoction. Dyspnaea, difficulty of breathing. Dysentery, an often and bloody looseness of the belly with pain and torment depending upon the ulceration of the intestines: in plain English, The bloody Flux. Dysury, a scalding or stoping of the urine, a painful pissing. E Ebullition, boiling or working of the blood and humors in the body like new Wine in a hogshead. Eclegma, a Medicine or Confection not to be eaten or chewed but licked or sucked, and suffered softly to melt down into the Lights or Stomach, it is a liquid Confection thicker than a syrup, and thinner than an electuary. Educed, brought forth, pressed forth. Eduction, a bringing forth, Edible, that which may be eaten. Efferous, fierce, cruel, viOlent. Efficacious, powerful. Efficient cause, the working or making cause, as the Apothecary is the efficient cause of a compound medicine; the material cause is the drugs, whereof it is made; the formal cause is that proper form given it, whereby itis distinguished to be a Pill, a Potion, an Electuary; and the final Cause is to procure health. Effigi●red, formed or shaped. Effluxion, a flix of the seed. Effoded, digged up. Effrenate, unbridled, headstrong. Effluded, powred off. Effringed, broken, ground to powder. Egritudes, griefs, sicknesses, diseases, calamities. Elaboration, a manual operation, an extracting of ignoble matter from that which is more excellent. Elaterium, the juice▪ of wild Cucumbers dried, being taken inwardly purgeth waterish humors, and is good against the dropsy: but it must be well corrected or it will be extreme painful in operation. Election, is a choosing of simples according to time and season. Electuary, a soft form of medicine, made sometimes purging, sometimes not. Elephantiasis, a kind of white scals or leprosy over the whole body of the patient, making it like the side of an elephant. Elevation, is when subtle things are forced from those which are thick. elicit, make choice of. elixir, a quintessense or medicinal liquour refined by distillation to the highest purity and exalted to its utmost degree of virtue. Elixation, gentle boiling by a moderate heat. Elution, the preparation of common Bole by pulverization, calcination, lotion, &c. as Talcum, Crocus martis Terra▪ lemnia. Emanates, proceeds from. Embrocated, moistened, sprinkled, washed, or bathed. Emends, cures, or takes away. Emetos, or Emesia, vomiting, a depraved motion of the stomach. Emelica, vomiting Medicines. Emphrastica, medicines that clog up the pores of the skin by their clamminess. empiric, a Mountebank, or Quacksalver, that administereth physic without any regard to ●●le or art. Emollient, softening or dissolving ointments. Emollition, a softening by steeping. Emollient herbs are four: meadows, ways, black violet, and bears breech. ●mpasms, medici●●l powders used ●o alloy inflammations, and to scarify the extremity of the ●kin. Emplasters, are a Composition of several Simples for several diseases according to the Physitians d●●cretion. Emplai●●ick medicines, all such kind of food which is o● a clammy glutinous substance. Empneumasis, Windiness in the stomach. Emprostotonos, A kind of Cramp. Empyema, corruption or quittour lying between the Breast and Lungs after a pleurisy. Empyici, are such as have an impostume or bladder broken in the side of the Lungs. Emulgent veins, those passages whereby the wheyish excrements of the blood is conveyed through the kidneys into the bladder. Emulsions, the steeping or dissolution by steeping of any seeds or kernels in liquour till it come to the thickness of a jelly. Emunctories, certain passages whereby nature cleanseth the body from many hurtful peccant humors, which are certain kernels in the groins and under the arms where risings most commonly happen in pestilental and venomous diseases. Enecated, killed. Eneorema, the clouds that hang in distilled waters, or in urins, especially when the Disease is breaking away. Energetical, very forcible and strong. Enchanthis, an immoderate increase and swelling of the caruncle or little flesh in the corner of the eye coming from the abundance of blood in that part. Encomium, praise, commendation. entrails, the bowels▪ Euntiates, signifies. Ephemera febris, a light Fever that lasts but one day. Ephractica, medicines opening the pores of the skin. Epicrasis, a leisurely evacuacuation of evil humors. Epidemical diseases, are such as are universally spread over a whole Na●ion or Country, such are the plague, small pox, fluxes, sweeting sickness, &c. Epidemia, the plague. Epiglo●●is, is a gristle and a cover of the cleft of the Larynx made to fall upon it, wh●n we swallow, that nothing should slip into the weason. Epil●psia, the falling sickness which is a convulsion of the whole body, not continually, b● by fits, with an hind●ranc● both of the mind and s●ns●s. Epiphora, involuntary weeping. Epispastick, blistering plasters, or any other strong drawing plaster; they are also called vesicatories. Epithems, bags of dried herbs, powders, or spices; sometimes moistened with rose-water, wine, or vinegar: sometimes applied dry to the region of the stomach, heart, liver, spleen, or brain. Epuloticks, powders or other medicines that dry up ulcers and sores. Eradicate, plucked up by the roots. Eraded, scraped off, or raled away. Erector, in plain english, A lifter up, physically the muscle that makes the yard to stand. Eroded, rusted, cankered, or eaten asunder. Erumnies, griefs, miseries. Errhins, sneezing medicines to be snuffed up into the head to purge the brain. Erugates, Takes away wrinkles. Eruption, a breaking or bursting out. Erysipelas, choleric humors or swellings. Escheoticks, potential cauteries: see Cauteries. Esculents, whatever things may be eaten. Essences, or chemical extracts, being the most refined and spiritual part of any matter or substance. Essential, accidents of a Disease, without which they could not be said to be, as heat in a Fever, leanness in a Consumption, &c. Eviscerate, to unbowel, or draw out the bowels. Euphorpium, a gum or tear of a strange Plant growing on the mount Atlas in Libia: itis yellow, clear, and brittle: it's good against palsies and shrinking of sinews. Exhalation, is when the spirit of any matter, solid or in powder, is lifted up through heat, and vanisheth into the air. Evacuation, purging or discharging the body of what is dangerous or superfluous. Evaporation, consumption by steem caused by a gentle heat in evaporations of liquours, the flatter & broader your vessel is that holds your liquour, the sooner will the Operation be effected. Eventilated, famned, cooled, or cleansed by the wind, as musty corn is made sweet by casting to and again abroad in the air. Euchima, good blood, or a good habit of body. Evocative, that calls forth, or brings forth any offensive matter, or humour. Eupho●y, sound, pronuntiaon. Exacts, drives away. Exanthemata, the small pox are pustules, and the meas●es spots which arise in the top of the skin from the impurity of the corrupt blood sent thither by force of nature. Exaltation, a chemical preparation whereby any thing is brought to its highest virtue and purity. Exanimate, drive out the life. Exiceate, to make dry, or dry up. Exasperate, provoked to be more painful, fell and angry than before. Excavated, hollow. Excite, stir up, provokes. Excrement, the dregs or residence of the nourishment of the body voided by dung, sweat, and urine. Excrementitious, that which is mixed with any impure or unnecessary excrementitious humour. Excorticated, flayed or pieled. Excreta, things voided out of the body. Exenterated, having the bowels plucked out. Exesiuate, destroy the heat of any part. Exhalation, vapours drawn by the Sun upwards off the face of the earth and waters. Exhausted, drawn dry, spent. Exhibited, given, administered. exhilarate, make cheerful, enlighten, revive. Exiccation, drying. Exigent, a streight or necessity, an eminent peril. Exiguity, meanness, littleness, smallness. Eximious, excellent, eminent, exceeding, admirable, great. Exonerate, disburden, discharge. exotic, strange, foreign. Expetible, desirable, worthy to be wished for, or sought after. Expel, to drive forth. Expectorate, to help an easy spitting out of phlegm. Expressed, squeezed out. Expletes, empties. Expulsion, the driving forth of excrements, dung, urine, sweat, or any hurtful humour offending the body. Expurged, cleansed. Exquisite, perfectly perfect. Extension, stretching forth. Extenuation, leanness, a consumption. Extergeth, cleanseth. Extinct, dead, or put out like a candle. Extraction, pulling, or drawing out. Extranous, strange, foreign, from without. extrinsical, from without. Extruct, build, set up. Extrudes, drives out. Exucce, without juice. Exulcerate, make sore. Exuperant, over abounding, exceeding, F fabric, the whole composition or frame of the body. Fabrication, building. Factitious, counterfeit. Faculty of a medicine, is a certain cause or quality whereon itis proper action or virtue depends, as the faculty of Aloes is to purge. Faex vini, the lees of wine▪ Fames Canina, Boulimia, dogs appe●i●e, when the appe●ite is depr●ved or offendeth in quan●ity or quality: in quantity when nourishment is required in greater quantity than nature can bear▪ and is called Boulimia: in quality when things are required which are evil, or not food, and is c●lled ●●ca Citta. Fartures, filling or cramming as they fill puddings; whence the word is borrowed. Febris Catarrhalis, a fever caused by distillation of Rheum from the head. Faeces, dregs, settlement in the bottom of any liquour, dross, &c. Feculent, foul, drossy, dreggy, fervid, very hot. Fecund, fruitful. Fedity. foulness. F●nugreck, a Plant or Herb, the seed whereof is much used in physic: it's yellow, being hot in the second dregree, and hath power to mollify and dissolve. Fermentation, a working of the humors or any o●her liq●or as new drink works in a v●re. Ferulaceous, like the herb ●erul●. Ferr●minatio●, a soldering or fastening together. Fibres, similar parts, could and dry, engendered of the seed, and therefore white, solid, and long, like spun thread, appointed for motion, and to hold the flesh of the parts wherein they are togegether. Fictation, is the accustoming of spiritual badness by fire, by calcination gentle and continual decoction. Ficus, Marisca, sycon & sycosis, the Piles or Hemmorrhoids in the fundament of a man. Figuline, earthen vessels. Filtration, a chemical operation performed by letting the liquour run through a brown paper, or by laying a piece of cloth list, with one end in the liquour, and the other into an empty vessel placed lower than the bottom of that containing the liquour whereby th● clearest part will run out of that above into that below. Fimus Equinus, Horse Dung wherein chemists use to set their medicaments to purrifie. Fistick Nuts, ou●landish Nuts brought out of Syria, and other hot Countries, not much unlike a Hazel Nut: They are very good against stoppings of the liver being steeped in sweet wine, and for such as are afflicted with shortness of breath: they are pleasant to the stomach. Fistula, a hollow Ulcer like a pipe running aslope into the flesh, having a narrow mouth or hole for the issuing forth of the quittour, hard and insensible round about the edge which keeps it from healing. Fixation, a fixing of bodies so as to make them endure the fire. Flatuosity, windines●. Flatulent, windy. Flegmone, a general name for all Imposthumes, which the ●bundance of inflamed blood produces. Flos maris, Sperma coeti. Flos lactis, cream. Flos Rosarum, the yellow seed within the Rose. Flos Aeris, verdigris the rust of Copper: it is a good astringent desiceation, and corroding medicine. Fluent, running, apt to ●low, any thing that is liquid and will run like water. Fluid, apt to run and ●low like water. Fluors, streams. Fluvial water, River water. Flux, the extraordinary ●lowing of any humour ●o a particular part, or the flux of excrements, called, A scouring. Fluxions, watery humors. Fluxus Hepaticus, or flux of the Liver: it is that wherein serous and bloody humors( like water wherein flesh hath been washed) are voided. Foetor Oris, stinking of the mouth through the putrefaction of the Gums, or Teeth, or meat sticking in the teeth. Fomentation, the application of sponges or cloths dipped in some liquour, and so laid to the part grieved, and so often renewed. Forated, pricked full of holes. Forceps, Tongs or Nippers to take hold of any thing to be plucked out of the ears, mouth, womb, &c. Formica Herpes, a corroding Ulcer. Formicans pulsus, a weak pulse beating extreme thick; and yet so feebly, as itis compared to the creeping of a pismire, as the name imports. Fo●tified, strengthened, confirmed. Fortuitous, that falls out by chance, or at adventure. Fossile, earth which is, or may be digged up. Fotus, a fomentation. Fraction, breaking in pieces. Fracture, breaking of a bone. Fragile, brittle. Friable, apt to crumble short like puff-paste: it's opposed to clamminess, or sliminess. Frication, a rubbing. Friction, rubbing and chafing a great while together. Frixion, frying. Frontals, certain forms of medicaments to be applied to the fore-head in distempers of the head. Frontal veins, fore-head veins. Fructical, bringing forth stalks. Frustaneous, in vain, ●rustrate. Fugacius, apt to fly away. Fulciments, props, stays. Fuligo Canini, soot of the chimney. Fulmination, a Metallical g●●dation causing a sudden & bright light. Fumigations, any thing burnt either to qualify the air, or immediately applied to the body of the patient, as for the pox, womens courses, &c. Fundament, the arse-hole. Function, the office or proper faculties of operation in any part or member of the body. Furfures capitis, the white dust of a mans head. Fusible, that may be melted. Fusitive Art, chemistry, especially that part of it, that is conversant in melting of Metals. G Galangale, an herb so called: the root whereof is hot and dry in the third degree, and much used in physic. Galbanum, a gum or liquour drawn forth of a plant in Syria, called metopion, or as some say, sagapene. Gallia muschata, a sweet smelling Confection of the Apothecaries so called. Gallicus Morbus, the Crinkomes, french pox, the foul disease. Gangrene, is a running and creeping sore, that as far as it runs mortifies the flesh, causing it to rot; so that of necessity that member wherein a Gangrene is radicated, must be cut off. Ganglium, a when or Ganglium, is a swelling sometimes hard, sometimes soft, yet always round, and useth to breed in dry, hard, and nervous parts. Gargarisms, medicines to wash and gargoyle in a sore mouth or throat. Gastrick, the stomach vein. Generating, breeding, begeting. Generous, brave, noble, liberal. Geniculated, kneed, or knobed, or full of joints. Germinating, growing. Gibbous, bunching out. Glans, the top of the yard. Glandules, kernels such as are about the throat, and are called the Almonds of the ears, also the sweet-bread; and whatever is like to these is said to be of a Glandulous substance. Glaucoma, so called from its changing the crystalline humour into a fiery redness. Glottis, or cleft of the Larynx, is that body which maketh the cleft or fissure in the Larynx, which is the chief instrument whereby the voice is formed and uttered. Glumosity, hulliness. Glutinous, clammy, sticking like glue. Glutinatious, such things that( like glue) are used to join and close up broken bones, veins, &c. glister, an instrument used to thrust up into the fundament. Gomphosis, is a joining of a bone, as a nail is joined in a board, and so the teeth are fastened in the jaws. Gonagra, the Gout in the knees. gonorrhea, the running of the reins. Gracile, lean, slender, and tender. Gradation, is an exaltation of Metals in the degree of affections, where, by weight, colour, and constancy, they are brought to an excellent measure, but the substance unchanged. Grains of Paradise, a little seed brought out of armoniac, of a strong sweet smell, and somewhat sharp in taste: it is hot and dry, of a subtle substance, and often used in physic; for it warms the outward parts, and is good against the falling-sickness. Granulation, proper to Metals by infusion on fire; and effusion into water is their comminution into Granula. Gristle, is a similar part, could and dry, made out of the thickest part of the seed, gathered together by the power of heat, and ordained to secure the variety of motions, and as a bulwark against any outward violence. Guaiacum, a wood called by some Lignum vitae: it's a peculiar remedy for the pox. Gula, the throat. Gum Animi, Indian Amber. Gum arabic, a kind of white clear Gum, growing on a thorn three called Acacia in Arabia. Gurgulio, the gullet. Gust, the taste. Gustative, tasting, or that which is tastable. Gutta Rosacea, is a preternatural redness which possesseth the nose and cheeks, and oft-times all the face besides. Guttural tumours, swellings in the throat. Gynglimos, is a joining of a bone when the same bone receiveth another, and is received by another. H Habit of body, the Constitution or temperament thereof. hesitation, sticking, staggering, or doubting. Haemoplois, or Haemopiosis, spitting of blood, which comes from the vital parts, as the Breast, Lungs, and rough Artery. Haemorragia, bleeding at the nose, or any other part; a symptom in the excrements of those things which are wholly against nature. Haemorrois, sanguinis profluvium per venas any, the bleeding of the Hemorrhoids, or Piles. hemorrhoids verucales, the Piles. hemorrhoids nasi, an ulceration of the nose. Halituous, thin, breathy. Harmonia, is the juncture of a bone by a line. Hectica, a wasting, or consuming Fever. Helcticum, a medicine drawing the humors downward, opposed to a repelling medicine. Hemicrania, or Hemicrane, a kind of headache, when but one side of the Head is grieved. Hemiplegia, the palsy possessing one side. Hepatis oppilatio, a stoppage in the Liver. Hepatica, the liver vein, things proper to the liver. Hepatrical, of, or belonging to the liver. Hepaticus, one diseased in the liver. Hepsema, sudden new wine. Herculeus Morbus, the falling Evil. Hereditary diseases, such as are derived from the Parents to the Children. Hermaphrodite, one that is both man and woman. Hermetical, after the chemical or Paracelsian way; that tribe being so called from Hermes Trismegistus. Hernia Humeralis, tumours in the Testicles, and Scrotum. Hernia Ramex, a rapture. Herpes, a Carroding Ulcer called the Wolf in a Womans Breast. Heterogeneal, of divers sorts or kinds, of divers and contrar● natures. Hippocras bag, is a bag made of white cotton like a sugar loaf pointed at bottom. Hirae Picrae, certain extreme bitter purging powders. Hispid, rough with thorns. Holy fire, sacer Ignis, a read inflammation called St. Anthonies fire,( being the disease that St. used to heal) or the Rose. Homogeneal, all of one sort or kind. Homogeneous, alike in all its parts: of one and the same substance. Hordei Cremor Ptisana, barley husked and sudden in water. Horrors, shakings and tremblings. Hortensian, Herbs which grew in the garden. Humectation, moistening. Humectative, the same. Humeralis vena, the shoulder vein. Humidity, humour or moisture. Hydraeleum, a medicine made of oil and Water beaten together. Hydrocephalus, a dropsy of the head by a waterish humour, and is a disease almost peculiar to infants newly born. Hydrogogon, Purges for watery humors. Hydromel, a Drink made of Honey and Water, called Mead or Metheglin. Hydrophobus à rabido Cane morsus, one that is bitten of a mad Dog. He that is afraid of water. Hymen, a slender membrane about the neck of the womb. Hydra, a monstrous Serpent in the lake Lerna, which having divers heads, as fast as any one was cut off, two rose up in its stead. Hydragogus, drawing water. Hypercathartica, most violent purges: too purging. Hypocaust, a Stove or Hothouse to sweat in. Hypochondria, the region of the body beneath the ribs. Hypoglottion, medicines so called, because they are to lye under the tongue and melt. Hypogion, or matter under the Cornea, a great inflammation of the eyes with swellings. Hysteta, uterus, loci Matrix, the Mother in Women, Matrix or Womb. Hysteralgia, pain in the Belly or Womb. Hystcrica passio, Fits of the Mother: Diseases of the Womb. I Jacinth, the name of a precious ston, of a light violet colour. Jasper ston, a precious ston so called. Jaundice, is a yellow colour coming of the whole body, spread over all the skin. Idiopathica, the obstruction of breathing by propriety comes from the Lungs distempered, and therefore every disease of the Lungs hurts their action, which diseases are either in the substance of the Lungs, or in the vessels thereof. Ignition, burning, fiery hot. Ignave, cowardly, sluggish. Ignavy, dullness. Illiac passion, a gripping in the uppermost small guts, a miserable disease, and commonly deadly. Illinetus, Eclegma, a medicine which is licked up and not swallowed. Illiquation, is the mingling of earthy bodies with mettalline so as both retain their own substance. Illited, anointed. Illumination, enlightening. Imbecil, weak, without strength. Imbibition, a philosophical operation is ablution, when liquour adjoined to a body is lifted up, and finding no vent, falls back & wasteth it with humectations. Imbued, filled full of any liquour or virtue by soaking like a sponge, or lying butted in such things as we desire it should be imbued withal. Immature, unripe. Immedicable, which cannot be healed. Immersion, to plunge or bury any thing over head and ears in any liquour or poud●r. Immutation, a changing, or altering. Impetigo, is properly a ringworm. Impetiginous, itchy, scabby. Impinguates, makes fat. Implete, fill up. Implicated, enfolded. Improbation, disproving. Inanition, emptiness of the body. Inappetency, want of appetite. Incalescence, heating, warming gently. Incarnate, to breed flesh. Incantation, charms, witchcraft. Inc●rnicle, a sieve. Incising medicaments, such as cut tough phlegm, as oxymel. Incision, the cut or wound the Surgeon makes with his Lancet either in opening an impostume, letting blood, or the like. Inclination, a pou●ing the thin from the thick of any liquour from one vessel to another. Incongruous, disagreeable. Incrassation, a thickening. Increment, the increasing of a sickness. Incrustated, covered over. Incubus, the night mere, the hag Indagation, searching out. Indication, is some kind of signs or symptoms appearing in the sick patient whereby the physician is hinted, or as it were pointed with the finger to such and such a course of physic or particular remedy, as abundance of blood. Indi●ate, declare, point at. Indicates bloud-letting, the like doth t●e stoping of courses in Women. Indigenous, home-bred. Indomitable, untame●ble, not to be tamed. Induration, hardening. Inebri●tes, makes drunk, beso●s. Infarctures, stoppings. Infirm, sick, weak, not sound. inflammation, burning, heat, and extreme redness. Influence, flowing from above, or into. Influx, flowing into. Infunded, that is infused. Infused, that is steeped. Infusion, a strained liquour wherein medicaments have been steeped either hot or could. Ingrede, go into, or help to make up a medicine, Inherent, stick to, or within that will not be separated. Inhumation, is the setting o● two pots( the head of the upper most being well luted and covered) with his bottom full of pin● holes fast in the ground, and covering them with earth, having a circular fire made for distill● tory transudation. Integral, whole or entire. Injection, a medicinal liqu● cast with a syringe or Clyste● pipe into the Womb, fundament, or Bladder. Innoxiously, without harm or danger. Inoculate, is by cutting a round hole in the bark of one three and a bud off another to set it on the hole of the former with day. Inodorous, without smell. Inordinate, irregular, un●uly, masterless. Inquination, defilement, corruption, pollution. Insensible passages, are certain passages in the body not perceivable to sense by reason of their smallness. Insensible, not to be perceived by the senses. Inserted, engrafted, or jointed into. Instinct, a strong inclination, impuls or secret prompting. Insipid, tasteless. Insolation, is a steeping or infusion of any thing in liquour a●d setting it in the Sun. Inspersion, sprinkling upon. Insoissate juice, is the juice of some herb boiled to the thickness of honey. intention and Remission, increase and decrease. Insuavity, unwholsomness or stinking. Insuave, unpleasant. Integral, whole. Intercept, stopped in the midway. Intercostales, the Muscles which are woven between the ribs, and fill up the distances between them. Intermission, ceasing, leaving off between whiles. Internal, inward. Intermediate, mediating between. Intermitting pulse, is that which the fit holds up a while, and then beats again, which is a sign of extreme sickness. Intervention, coming between. Intestinum Jejunum, the empty gut. Intestinum caecum, the blind gut. Intestinum rectum, the arsegut. Intestinum duodenum, the gut next the stomach. Intestina Gracilia, the little guts. Intestina terrae, Lumbrici terrestes, earth-worms. Intoxicate, to bewitch, to amaze, or extremely dull ones spirit. Introsumed, taken inwardly. Invalidity, weakness, want of strength. Invasions of a disease, the return of the fit. Inversio ventriculi, an invers●on of the stomach. Investigate, search out. Inveterate, grows old. Involution, a wraping up one thing in another. Irradiation, a shining upon. Irrigation, a sprinkling of moisture upon things that are to be dissolved, that they may melt more easily. Irritated, provoked, stirred to anger. Ischias, the Sciatica. Ischuria, urinae retentio, a stoppage of the urine. Jucundity, pleasantness. Jugular veins, the throat veins. Jugulates, signifies to choke or kill. Juleps, pleasant cooling drinks made most commonly of distilled waters and syrups, and given to alloy heat and quench thirst in Fevers. Jujub●s, certain Plums of Italy, sold here by Apothecaries, some of them are white, others read, round like an Olive, of a sweet taste, having a small hard ston: if they be long kept they grow dry, and full of wrinkles: they are of a temperate quality, and are good against the cough, roughness of the throat, and against all exulcerations of the kidneys and bladder; but of hard digestion. K Katagmatica, medicines effectual in conjoining broken bones. L Lacca, a kind of read Gum brought out of Arabia, and sold here by Apothecaries, good against diseases of the breast, and comfortable to the liver. Lac Virginis, Maiden milk: see the preparation in the general practise of physic. Lacrymae, the tears of juices or gums that distil from trees and plants of their own accord. Lacteous, milky. Lagopthalmus, or the flareeys; in this disease the patient sleeps with his eyes open, because his eye-lids are so short that it will not cover them. Lambative, medicines to be licked up, and swallowed down softly; appropriated to the Lungs. Lapis Granutus, the Granate ston; it is precious in medicines, but by reason of its costliness is seldom used. Lapis magnetis, the Loadstone for value far exceeding the Diamond, of a drawing and healing quality. Lapis Hematis, Bloud-stone, good to stench bleeding inwardly and outwardly, with many other medicinal virtues. Lapis prunellae, a ston made of salt-niter: it is good against toothache▪ inflammations, and sores of the mouth or throat, and hot fevers, taken inwardly. Lapis sabulosus, is a great secret in curing a Fracture, being daily given the patient one dram a day, mixing it with the outward medicine, and applied to the pained place. Larynx, diseases of the teeth, gums, jaws, palate, wind-pipe, the throat or organ of the voice. Larch turpentine, a kind of Rosin or Turpentine that grows upon Larch-tree in Italy: itis often used in ointments and plasters to cleanse and heal wounds: it may be taken inwardly with Hony, and so it cleanseth the breast, loosens the belly, and is good to expel the ston and gravel. Lassitude, weariness. Lateres, stones or bricks for furnaces. Latifolious, with broad leaves. Lateres Cribrati, powder of bricks used in preparing medicines, to make good lute as well as otherways. Laudanum, a yellowish gum as some writ; but others affirm it to be made of a due which falleth upon a certain Herb in Greece▪ some say it s taken hanging at Goats-beards that feed among that plant: It's often used in Pomanders, and being anointed upon the head with oil of Myrtles, it strengtheners the skin, and keeps the hair from falling off. Lapis Lazuli, a blew ston of a kind of marble with veins of gold in it; it is hot and dry: and being rightly prepared it's good against melancholy diseases, and by cleansing the blood preserves from the leprosy. Leguminous, a kind of pulse. Leniating, looseness. Lenitive, a gentle purge. Lenocinies, gentle medicines. Lentor, a clammy or glewish humour. Lenetives, gentle medicines to loosen the belly, or plasters, or ointments to ease pain. 〈…〉 disease causing a rough●ess of the skin, with black wannish spots, and dry parched scales, and householdstuff. Lethal, deadly. Lethargy, a sleepy disease in which the senses and reason itself seem to sleep. Levative, medicines easing pain. Leviate, ease pain. Levigated, finely powdered. Leucophlegmatia, a kind of d●opsie. Liberates, frees, or releases. Libidinous, lustful, lecherous. Lichen, a tetter, or ringworm. Lienteria intestinorum levitas, a kind of flux of the stomach, when the meat and drink runs from a man as he taketh it without concoction or alteration. Ligamenta, sinews. Ligature, bands wherewith joints dislocated and broken bones are bound up and contained in their places, till they may knit and grow together again: it signifies also a binding of any part so hard as that thereby the blood and humors( through the pain and straightness of the ligature) is drawn from the place or diseased part, to the part so bound. Ligneous, a woody substance. Ligula Uvula, a little piece of flesh in the roof of the mouth. alembic, a still, to distill waters. Limation, filing. Limatura martis, the filings of horn used for the making of Crocus martis. Limpid, clear, pure, transparent. Linetus, Eclegma, lambetivum, or Confection that is not chewed but licked in; and by the Apothecaries is called by an Arabian word, viz. Lohoch. lineaments, ointments used for curing the scurvy, dropsy, and palsy. Lipitude, purblindness. Lipothymy, a swooning wherein one seemeth to be dead, the vital spirits being suddenly oppressed. Liquation, making liquid. Liquified, made liquid, or turned to water. Lithargy, the foam or scum that riseth from led, Silver, or Gold, &c. when they are tried. It is could in operation▪ and of frequent use with Surgeons in ointments and plasters, being of a gentle, drying, cleansing, binding nature. Lithiasis, the Disease of the ston, engendered in a mans body. Lithontribon, a Confection of the Apothecaries so call●●, because it drives away and b●e●ks the ston in a mans body▪ Lithontriptica, Me●icine● b●●aking the ston in the Bl●dder. Lixivium, see Lucinium. Lixive, Lee. Loch●s, or Child-bed purg●tions, and immoderate fl●x ca●sed from the over-wide opening of the vessels, or their te●ring in hard travail. Loch, Lohoch or Linctus, is a thick syrup, or other soft substance, not to be swallowed but let melt in the mouth, that so i● may gently slide down, a●d thereby have the more virtue against diseases of the breas●, lungs, and throat. Longanum, the arse-gut. Longaevity, long life, or old age. Lotion, a preparing of medicines, or washing. Loture, the washings, or water wherein any thing that leaves a ●aste or tincture behind it hath been washed. Lozenges, little tablets made up of several things with sugar to lye and melt in the mouth: taken for colds. Lubricating, making slippery, loosening. Lues, a plague or pestilence. Lues venerea, the French pox, a plague containing all diseases in one, and seldom cured perfectly. Lucinium, lixivum, lie made of ashes, which is profitable in healing outwardly and inwardly, & the best in caustic medicines. Lunacy, a disease wherein the patient is distracted at certain times of the Moon. Lutation, is a medicine thick or thin according to the heat and continuance of the fire which exactly stops the mouth of the vessel that no vapour pass out. Lutetta, Paris. Luxation, a loosening of the joints. Lycium, a decoction made of the juice or d●coction of the bramble root. Lysiponium, medicines mi●igating pain. M Maceration, steeping or soaking any thing in liquour till it be almost dissolved. Macerated, steeped. Macilent, lean, slender. Madefaction, weting, or making wet. Madid, moist, wet. Magistral syrup, is a particular syrup prescribed by a skilful physician to his patient for a particular disease. Malacia, Pica, a corrupt appetite by reason of humors gathered about the mouth of the stomach, which is the cause of longings in women. Malaxation, softening, loosening. Malcolent, that hath an ill smell. Malignant medicaments, violent, pernicious, unwholsom●, destructive medicines. Malleable, abiding the Hammer or Malle●, or which may be wrought or beaten there with. Mamillary veins, passag● from the Womb to the breasts, serving to convey the menstrual blood thither to be converted into milk. Manducated, chewed. Manna, a kind of sweet due, like sugar. Mania madness, a doting without a fever, with raging and fury. Maniple, an handful of herbs, flowers, roots, and such like things. Mansuete, tame. Manus Christi, sugar boiled with Rose-water without putting any thing else to it; it may be made with violet water, or cinnamon water. Mandrake, a foreign plant, bearing yellow round apple: the root of this herb is great and white like a Parsnip, growing in two branches, like the legs of a Woman, which gives opportunity to Jugglers to Counterfeit obscene beastly Images therewith: the root, especially the bark is extreme could and dry, even to the fourth degree: it is therefore very dangerous to be taken inward: it's usually given to cast people into a dead sleep when they are to be dismembered or cut of the ston. Marchasia, minerals which are unprepared, as silver oar, led oar, &c. Marchasite, a ston participating with the nature of some metal, yet in some small quantity that the metal cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoke, the ston turning to ashes. These Marchasites are commonly in colour like the metal mixed with them, whether it be gold, silver, brass, or any other. Some call any ston out of which fire may be struck, a Marchasite. Marcid, musty, unwholesome, stinking, nasty. Marcor, corruption, rottenness. Margarites, the fairest sorts of pearls. Mariscus, the Piles. mastic, a white and clear gum of a sweet savour; it grows on the Lentisk three in the iceland of Chios: it's temperate in heat, and of a dry binding nature, whereby it strengtheners the stomach, stays vomiting, and stops any issue of blood: it's good to rub the teeth to fasten them, and make them white. Masticatories, medicines to be chewed to bring away Rheum from malignity, the venomous or poisonful quality of certain Humors and Diseases, which makes them for the most part deadly. Matter or Quittou●, the whi●e thick filth that issues from sor●s and ulcers when they are on the mending hand. Matrix, Mediana vena, the Median vein. Matrix, the Womb, or place of Conception. Maturity, ripeness. Measles, a kind of small po● which arises from the impurities of the Mothers blood. Mechoacan, a whitish root brought out of India, called by some, Indian, or white Rhubarb● it's hot in the first, and d●y in the second degree; and purgeth all humors of what kind soever, with much ease: it cleanseth and comforteth the liver, and all inward parts. Mediastinum, so called because it mediateth or divideth the chest in the midst. Medicamen de Turbith, a purging medicine. Medick, physician, an abbreviation of the Latin word medicus. Medium, whatever is transparent, or may be seen through, is called a medium to the sight, principally the air as its either thick or thin; also glass, water, horn, are called mediums when question is of seeing through them. Medulla, pith, marrow. mell, Honey is laxative, cleansing, softening, and healing. Melancholia, a melancholy kind of madness, a doting without a fever with fear and sadness. Melanogogon, purgers of Melancholy. Melitites, honeyed Wine. Mellifluous, sweet as hony. Membrane, a fleshy skin, a coat serving as a coat for the arteries and veins. Membranous, skinny substances like parchment. meanings, the films or Tunicles which are the coverings or coats wherein the brain is contained. Menstruous, a Woman which hath upon her her monthly flowers: or which belongeth to them. Mercury, and Mercurial purges, such as are made of Quicksilver chemically prepared. Mercurius, Quicksilver, like a seeming friend which heals and kills. Mercurius praecipitatus and sublimatus, Mercury precipitate and sublimate. Mercurius solis, mercury of gold: I shall leave the description hereof to the Philosophers by the fire. Mercurius Lunae, mercury of silver. Mercurius martis, mercury of iron. Mercurius jovis, mercury of tin. Mercurius saturni, mercury of led. Mercury, is a liquid substance, sour, or sharp, volatile, penetrable, airy and most pure, from which all nourishment proceeds. Meri, Arabum, O●sephagus, the mouth of the stomach. Mesentery, the skin which holds the guts together, and runs along amongst them full of fatty knobs. Metra, Hippocrates uterus, the Womb. Metrenchyta, an instrument to inject l●quid medicines into the Womb. Michleta, the name of a Confection so called. Microcosmographia, a description of the body of man. Microcosmus, it properly signifies a little World; but it's commonly used to signify a man who in himself hath something or other answering to any part of the great World. Mictus sanguinis, is a dise●se of the Reins, through which thin wheyish blood is passed. Midriasis, is the dilatation of the pupil of the eye. Midrif, a sinewy skin passing over-thwart a mans body, and divides the heart and lungs from the stomach, guts, and liver, lest the vital parts should be offended with ill vapours from those below. Milt, so termed because it draws away the dross of the blood. Minium, read led, of a cooling, drying, repelling, healing, softening, and discussing quality. Mineral, any thing digged out of the earth. Minorative, lesser, or making less: it's particularly used to distinguish a gentle purge from a more violent, which is called eradicative pulling away the offending humour by the very roots as we say. Minuates, lessons, diminisheth. Miscellany, a mixture of things without any order: a Galamafry or hodge-podge of divers things mingled together. Miscible, apt to incorporate, or mingle together. Misy, a kind of yellow Copper shining like gold, brought out of Egypt and the Isle of Cyprus: it is of a freting, burning quality, as the common copperess is. Miligation, abatement of pain. Mithidrate, a great Confection invented by King Mithridates; it is of singular virtue against poison, and hath so many and strong simples in it, that it ought not to be taken before it be six months old. Mixtion, or mingling of several Herbs together. Modes, ways, fashions, and manner of doing things. Mola, an unshap'd piece of flesh in the mother. Moles, marks with children. Mollition, the beginning of liquation. Morbus Caducus, the fallingsickness. Morbus spinalis, the disease of the spin of the back, the Rickets. Morbifical matter, is that which in most diseases is the principal cause of them. Mordacity, biting quality. Mordacious, biting. Mother, a disease of the womb incident to Women when the womb riseth with pain upward: in this disease the smelling to sweet savours is evil, but to stinking and loathsome smells very helpful. Mortification, deading of any part of the body, as in a Gangrene. Mortiferous, Mortifical, deadly, or bringeth death. Mucagines, a mucilage: a slime or juice which is drawn either out of herbs, roots, or seeds by steeping in some distilled waters, or some other convenient liquour. Mucronated, sharp pointed. Mucaginons, clammy, slimy. Mumia, a thing like pitch sold at the Apothecaries: some affirm it's taken out of old Tombs, being the embalming of dead bodies: others say it's made of mans flesh boiled in pitch: it's hot in the second degree, and good against bruisings, and spitting of blood. Mundane, clean, pure. Mundification, is the cleansing of any matter by few or many operations from that which 〈◇〉 filthy and vicious, that the most excellent may be admitted to the work in hand. Muscle, is an organical and dissimilar part made up of nerves, flesh, fibres, veins, and arteries. Mutilated, maimed. Myrobolanes, a f●uit growing in Egypt and Syria like plumbs or damsons: there are five kinds of them, Citrinae, Judae, Cepniae, Emblicae, and Belliricae; the first purgeth choler, the second melancholy, and the three last phlegm: they are cooling, and comfortable to nature. Myrrh, a gum brought out of Arabia and Assyria, of colour between white and read: it is hot and dry in the second degree, or as some say in the third: it's often used in physic, being of an opening, cleansing, dissolving nature. N narcotic, Medicines that stupefy and dull the sense of feeling they are also given to procu●e ●●eep, as well as to ease pain. Natural faculties, the seat of them is the stomach and liver, &c as the heart is of the vital, and the brain of the animal. Nausea, is a desire to vomit with trouble, and only sending and pewking forth a thin waterish humour by salivation. Nauseousness, squeaziness of the stomach, inclining to vomit. N●bula oculorum, the dimness of the eyes. N●cromancy, the art of Divining by dead bodies, and parts thereof. Necrosy, deadness. neoterics, modern Writers either in physic or any other Art so called in opposition to the ancients. Nephritica, medicines proper for the cure of the ston. Nephritis, Renum dolor, a grief, or sickness in the Reins. Nervalia, medicines proper to the sinews. Nerve, is the same with a sinew, and is that whereby the brain adds sense and motion to the body. Nervorum resolutio or dissolutio, is a dissolving or weakening of the sinews, called paralysis. Nicotian, Tobacco. Nidorous smells, are like burnt salt, scorched meat, or fried oil. Nigredes, makes black. Nigritude, blackness. Nitent, shining. Nitre, saltpeter, as it's commonly used to signify; but the true nitre is found in the bowels of the earth, and is very rare▪ whereas saltpeter is artificial and common. No●ivous, hurtful. Nocumental, hurtful. N 〈…〉, knotty. N●de, naked. N 〈…〉, are pledgets or pessa●●s made of lint or cotton wool, and dipped in some unguent, and used either in wounds, or sores, or in diseases of the Womb. Nutrition, nourishment. Nutrition, the mixing of moisture by little & little, for changing the quality of the medicine. Nyctal●ps, Lusciosus, one that is pur-blind. O Obdulcorated made sweet, or sweetened with sugar or hony. Obdurate, hard. obliqne, flaunting, athwart, crooked. Obnoxious, liable to punishment. Obr●ted, butted, covered, hidden. Obsolete, old, out of mind, forgot, out of use. Obsomes, all manner of meats used at meals. Obstructions, stoppages, in the passages of nutrition. Obtenebrated, clouded, darkened, or hidden from the light of the Sun. Obverted, overthrown, spoiled. Obvolved, wrapped up close. Occult, hidden, mysterious. Ocular Medicaments, Medicines for the eyes. Odentick, belonging to the teeth. odours, smells. odiferous, sweetsmelling. Odoraments, perfumes. economy, household government. Oedema, a tumour or swelling caused by phlegm; and is soft, white, and of no great pain. Oesephagus, the mouth of the stomach, the gullet. Oleagynous, oily, fatty. Omentum, the cawl or su●t wherein the bowels are wrapped, which by reason of its looseness to receive humors that come from other parts, it is subject to divers diseases, as the Mesentary and Pancreas. Omphacy, unripe, it signifies properly the juice of unripe Grapes. Omoplata, the muscles of the shoulder-blade. Operative, active, working. Operculated, close covered. Ophiogenes, generated of Serpents. Opthalmy, Diseases in the eyes. opiates, are such medicines as have opium in them, and are used in infectious diseases. Opobalsamum, natural balsam. Opium, the juice of black Poppies, sold dry by Apothecaries: it is sometimes used in physic to make one sleep, or to assuage excessive pain: but it must be corrected and given with other things, and with great discretion, or it may make the patient sleep till doomsday. Oppilation, stoppage of the breast. Opopanax, a sap or liquour flowing out of a plant called panax in some of the hot Countries: it's brought hither dry, being of a yellow colour without, and white within if it be not too stale: it's good for agues, and bruises. Opisthotones, a Convulsion so name when the body is drawn backward. optics, the Art of Perspective, or wherein the natures and differences of Seeing is handled. optic nerves, so called from their action, because they communicate to the eye the sense of seeing. Orchal, a ston like Alum used by divers in dying read. Orifice, the hole or mouth of the stomach, veins, womb, or of the incision made by a Surgeon, when he lets blood; or the mouth of a wound or ulcer. Orgal, the lees of Wine dried, and used by Dyers to make their cloth to take the colour. Organs, are organical parts of the body, those that are ordained to such or such a particular use different from others, as the foot to tread, the eye to see, or the ear to hear, &c. Oringoes, the roots of Seaholly; it grows in many parts of England, on the Sea-shore, in great plenty: preserved( as they are to be had at the Comfitmakers) they are excellent good for such as have Consumptions, or old aged people. Orthopnaea, a straightness of breath by stoping of the Lights, that one cannot breath, but holding his neck upright. Orthopnoical, short breathing. Oscitantly, carelessly, negligently. as Cribosum, a bone full of small holes like a sieve, whence it hath its name; it's placed above the nose, and by it the snot and snivel that comes out of the nose, is drained from the brain. Otalgia, pain in the ears, a violent disease both in respect of the part affencted, viz. the inward membrane which goeth about the cavity of the ear, as also by reason of the nearness of the brain. Oval, the shape of an egg. oxycrate, a medicine of vinegar and water mixed together. Oxydorcica, sharp medicines to quicken the sight. Oxymel, simplo syrup made of vinegar and hony. Oxyrrhodinum, oil of Roses and Vinegar mixed together, whereof medicines are made. Oxysaccharum Compositum, a compound syrup of vinegar and hony. Ozaena, a sore in the nose causing a stinking breath. Ozylete officinarum, perfuming Candles. P Papulum, fodder. Paerinaeum, the seam which runneth like a ridge between the privities and fundament both in men and women. Palm, the hand. Palmos, Palpitatio Cordis, the panting of the heart. Palpebra, the eye-lid. Palliative Cure, is when a disease is not eradicated, but only mitigated or covered, whereby either the pain, or trouble, or deformity is somewhat eased and remedied; to this end were wooden legs, arms, fingers, glass-eyes invented. Panada, a pap made with bread. Panicles, Cats tails, any thing that groweth round and long. Pancreas, the sweet-bread, serves to prop the vessels lest they should break, and are instead of a pillow to the stomach. Panchymagogon, such purgers as are universal, purging all humors. Pandalea, a kind of paste or massapan, good for a cough. Panpharmacal, an universal medicine. Paracousis, noise in the ears which comes from a praeternatural motion of the air which is naturally contained in the ears. paralytic, sick of the palsy. Paralysis, the palsy wherein the loss of sense and motion is in some parts of the body by reason of the stoping of the passages of the animal parts. Paranitium barbarorum, a disease bread in the fingers. Paraplegia, the same with Paralysis. Paranomasis, likeness in name. Parastatae, are bodies placed without the Abdomen in the Scrotum or Cod, set upon the Testicles, to which they are alike in nature and use. Paregoricum, medicines easing pain. Perforated, boared through. Pericardium, a thin skin or film compassing the heart. Peripneumonia, an inflammation of the lungs or lights with a vehement fever. Pericranium, the skin that covers the skull, the hairy scalp. Perite, skilful, cunning. Peritonaeum, the rim of the belly, the inner coat of the belly next the guts, which when it is broken the Women say the rim of the belly is burst. peristaltic, motion of the guts, is a motion whereby the guts press themselves together above the excrements, and so squeeze them out. Perperously, foolishly and unskilfully. Permeate, pass through the pores of the body. Permixtion, mixing thoroughly. Pernicious, deadly, destructive, wicked. Perspicuous, clear and transparent as glass, crystal, fair water, &c. Perspirable, the body is said to be perspirable when the invisible pores or holes in the skin are kept open, so that the vapours arising from evil humors may freely breath out. Perturb, to trouble. Pervious, thin, that which may be past through, full of holes like the bottom of a sieve. Pessary, a certain medicine made like a finger to thrust into a Womans privities with a string tied to it. Pestis, the plague, a deadful disease, venomous, contagious, loathsome, noisome, and hateful to mankind. Pestiferous, that which brings the plague. Petrous, rocky. Phagadena, a running canker or pock. Pharmaceutick remedies, all such medicines as are made by the Apothecaries. Pharmacopaeia, a Dispensatory or Book wherein is set down the Composition or Receipts of Medicines for direction to the Apothecary. Phigethlon, is an inflammation of the parts, and if it become indurable, it is reckoned amongst the flegmatick tumours, and by Guido termed scrofulous. philtre, an amorous medicine, a Potion to procure love. Phisiologer, a searcher of Natural Secrets. Phlebotomy, bloud-letting. Phlegm, slime, waterish moisture. Phlegma, it is used for any distilled water which hath no spirit, as Rose-water. Phlegmagogon, purgers of phlegm. Phlegmon, a tumour or swelling caused by blood. Phreniae, veins in the liver. Phrenitis or frenzy, an inflammation of the brain, and it's membranes, with a continual dotage, & a sharp constant fever. Phthisis, a kind of consumption: see Culpepper's Practise of physic. Physiognomy, an art to judge of ones nature & conditions by his countenance and ●orm of body. Pia matter, a little skin that covereth the brain. Pica, an unnatural longing in Women. Piger Henricus, an instrument for distilling, so called for his exceeding slowness. Pillula Cochiae, Pills which purge the head. Pillulae Iliacae, Pills for the colic, or pain in the small guts. Pillulae Opthalinicae, Pills for the eyes. Pllulae pestilentiales, pills against the plague. Pillulae stomachiae, pills for the stomach. Pituitous, filthy. Placenta, is the proper name of a sugar-cake: physically it's used for a piece of flesh in the covering of a Child in the womb. plethoric, a too full habit of body, or an evil constitution of the body wherein the humors offend rather in quantity, than quality. Pleura, a membrane taking his name from the ribs, which are called pleuras, because it is stretched under them all except the twelfth. pleurisy, is the swelling of the membrane that goes about the ribs, of the internal, intercostal muscles. Pleureticus, one that hath the pleurisy. Plexus Choroides, hath his situation in the forward ventricles betwixt them and the arch, they are termed coroeide, plegmata, because they are like the chorion or membrane which compasseth the infant. Plumbum philosophorum, the Philosophers head, a mysterious preparation. Pluvial water, rain water. Podagra, the Gout in the feet. Podagrical dolor, the same with podagra. Podex, the arse-hole. Pollicitates, promises, assures, warrants. Polychrestum, a medicine of frequent use. Polypus, a certain impostume in the nose. Polypodium, a kind of herb like fern, growing much at the roots of Oaks: the root thereof is used to purge melancholy, gross, phlegmatic humors. Poma odorata, apple to smell to, to prevent the plague. Pomada, or pomata, a sweet smelling salue made of apple. Pomatum, a drink made of apple. Ponderous, weighty. Pontian, Wormwood, se● Wormwood. Poplitis vena, the vein of a mans ham behind the leg. Populaeon, an ointment in the shops made of poplar. Pores, the skin is full of small unperceivable little holes, whereby sweat and vapours exhale from the body. Poros, that matter which consolidateth the broken bones within. Posca, a kind of small household Wine mixed with Water in the press. Potent, powerful. Potential, that is any thing in quality, hot, or could, or burning, opposed to actual, as a read hot iron is actually burning. Potible, that which may be drunk. Precided, cut off. precipitation, is when bodies dissolved in Aqua fortis into Water, and Mercury cast upon them, and beaten into ashes, they are made perfect medicines. precipitated, thrown headlong. Praeforations, stoppings. preparation of humors, is to make them fit for expulsion, and consists in separating them from the mass of good blood, or in thickening them if they are too thin, or in thinning them, if too thick. preposterous, out of season, unhandsome, unseemly, disorderly. Praepotent, strong, effectual, potent, above, or before others. Praesidies, auxiliary forces, helps by the by. Praesidy, help, comfort, &c. Pregnant, big with child. Prepuce, the fore-skin of a mans yard which the Jews used to cut off in Circumcision. Praestigiators, cozeners, cheaters. Preternatural, contrary, o● besides the course of nature. Privation, God knows what it is, there is no such thing in nature. Probable, likely to come to pass. Procatarctick Causes, the primary, first working or moving Causes, as in a Fever, the next immediate moving Cause is putrefied choler, &c. but the first working and occasional Cause was the patients taking could, or by swimming in could water whereby the po●es became shut, and so the matter of the Disease inflamed by being penned up in the body. Procerity, height. Procidentia any, the falling down of the fundament, which is very frequent in children. Procidious, ready to fall out. Profligation, the overthrowing, driving away, or bringing any thing to destruction. Profluvio sanguinis ex naribus, flux of blood at the nose. Profound, deep, subtly, learned. Prognosis, the fore-knowledge of a disease. Prognosttcks of diseases, signs foretelling what will be the event of any particular disease, or i● the patient shall recover or not. Projects, cast forth. Propomates, all kind ● drinks made with sugar and h●●ny. Prostates, the kernels whic● keep the seed after the ston● have finished it. Propriety, a pain by propriety is when the cause of the pain is in the part pained, as when the headache comes from the humors in the head it's called a pain by propriety when it proceeds of vapours sent up from the stomach or any other part it's called headache by consent or sympathy. Protopium, Wine new pressed out of the grape. Protraction, is the lengthening out of the disease and making it last long, as most of those you call Doctors are wont to do, to get the more fees from their patients purses. Protrusion, casting out. Pryapismus, an unnatural standing of the yard, without any desire to generation. Pseudo-medick, a false physician, or counterfeit empiric. Psilothers, medicines to take off hair from any part of the body. Psora Plinii sera scabies, a certain kind of scurvy itch so called. Pterygium, or Haw in the eyes called Unguis, is a hard nervous little membrane which comes out of the great corner of the eye, covers the white, and after by continuance the black, and covering the pupilla hindereth the sight. Pthiriasis, morbus pedicularis, the lousy disease. Ptisan, a Decoction of barley. Pules, the hairy hillock above the privities in men and women, the word signifies ripeness, because that hair being grown out shows the party to be fit for Generation. Pugil, as much in quantity as may be taken up between the three fore fingers and the thumb. Pulsation, beating of the arteries in any part of the body. Pulse, beans, pease, vetches, &c. Pulverication, bringing to powder. Pupil of the eye, is the round black spot in the middle, which we commonly call the sight or apple of the eye. Pulchritude, beauty. Pulverable, hard things( as oyster-shells) brought to powder. Purgation, is the cleansing of impure liquour, having a thick sediment and froth by Decoction. Putrefaction, is dissolving or opening of mixed mineral bodies by a natural warmth and moist putrefaction, viz. by horse dung, and Balneum Mariae. Putretude, filthiness. Purilence, the dissolution of any thing into a thick slimy substance. pyramid, a geometrical figure broad at bottom, and growing less and less towards the top till it end in a point: the sepulchres of the Egyptian Kings were o● this form, and therefore called pyramids. Pyroticks, caustics, burning medicines as the name imports. Q Quartation, is the separation of gold and silver mixed together by four unequal parts. Quinque-angular, five cornered. Quinta Essentia, is an absolut● pure and well digested medicine drawn from any substance either animal, vegetable, or mineral. Quittour, matter. Quotidiana, a daily Ague, commonly called a Quotidian Ague. R Radical moisture, the fundamental juice of the body, whereby the natural heat is nourished and preserved, as the flamme in a Lamp is preserved by oil. Ramex varicosus, a rapture of swollen bones. Ranula, a swelling under the tongue in that part whereby it is bound to the ligament, it is oftentimes so large that it is seen above the lower teeth. Rarefaction, making thin. Rasion, rasping, shreding, or fileing. Recenseate, reckon up. Recency, newness. Recipient part, is that part which receives the offending humour. recruited, repaired, restored, made up: it's a term in the Art Military. Rectification, when the distilled liquour is oftentimes distilled over again. Redacted, brought, constrained, reduced. Reduced, brought back again. Reduction, the restauration of any thing that hath suffered a change or alteration to its former condition. Reduplicated, often doubled, or repeated. Refaricated, stuffed, quilted. Referted, replenished, well furnished. Reflux, flowing back again. Reficiates, amends, comforts. Refocilate, refresh, revive. Refractions, the breaking of the representations in visible objects: it's a term in optics. Refragates, contradicts, gainsays. Refrigeration, cooling. Refrigeratory, is in general any plate or vessel used for cooling: particularly it is taken for a vessel like a pail placed about the head of an Alembeck of Copper or Pewter, and is used to be filled with could Water that so the Still-head may not grow hot, but that the Spirits which in distillation ascend up may the more easily be made thick and turned back into the Receiver, which otherwise would be dispersed and consumed. Relax, is used sometimes to signify the loosening of the bel●y. Relaxing, slakening, unbinding. Remitted, lessened, abated, eased, pardonned. Renovation, a renewing. Repelled, driven away. Repercussives, medicines which are applied to drive back the humors from a diseased part. Repletion, too great an abundance, or fullness of blood and humors. Reposed, laid up, to lye a great while. Represses, restrains▪ Reptant, creeping. Repullulate, bud, or spring again. Repurgation, the purging of metals from all superfluities adherring to them of a nature different from themselves. Resartiate, to revive or repair, or make amends for. Reserate, to open, or unlock, Residence, settling, or more properly the thicker part of any liquour that with standing settles to the bottom. Resolving Medieaments, are such as loosen and scatter evil humors gathered to an head in any part of the body. Resolution, weakening or dissolving the strength of the body, or any part thereof, as when it is palsied. It signifies also a separation of things mingled one from another. R●spiration, breathing. Respendeth, answereth. Resumptive, refreshing, or recovering. Retentive faculty, that power or faculty in the body whereby the food is retained till the stomach and vein● have sucked the nourishing vir●ue from it. R●tort, is a vessel of glass, or earth, which the chemists use in distilli●g such Spirits and oils as ●●quire a violent heat to be distilled. Re●orted, forced back, turned back. Retunded, dulled, blunted, abated. Retuseness, hoarseness, grossness. Rev●lled, drawn back. Reverberation, is the burning of bodies in a most violent he●● in a furnace made for the purpose: it's a chemical business. Revulsion, drawing back the blood or humors from the part affencted. Revulsive remedies, remedies to draw back the humour from the diseased part. Rhagadia, or Rhagades, chaps and clefts in the hands, and other parts of the body. Rhagoides, the third rind or skin that compasseth the eye. Rheuma, Rheum, or a distillation of humors. Rhodomel, hony of roses. Rhyas, a certain consuming, or diminishing of the flesh in the great corner of the eyes, from whence it is enlarged. Rigated, moistened, dissolved. Rigidity, stiffness, coldness. Rob, the juices of plants and fruits pressed forth and thickened in the Sun. Roboration, strengthening, comforting. Rose, a certain tumour or inflammation called Erysipelas. Rosinos, matter like rosin. Rough Artery, or( as the latin term used by Anatomists is) the Aspera Arteria, is the wind-pipe, or wezand, which is rough, or the out-side with circles, or gristly rings. Rubetude, redness. Ructus, a belching, or breaking wind upwards. Ruderous places, places where rubbish lies. S Sagacity, prudence, foresight. merely, sound, healthful. Salacity, lechery. Sal Alkali, that which the chemists call their vegetable salt. Sal Ammoniacum, a certain salt brought out of turkey. Sal colcotharis, the salt of vitriol after the spirits are drawn off: it's exceeding astringent, and drying. Sal Communis, common salt: it's discussive, cleansing, healing, very precious. Sal gem, a clear transparent salt like crystal, growing in the Mines in Polonia, near Cracovia. Saliture, the art of salting or seasoning any meats. Sal petrae, saltpeter, of admirable effects, both good and evil. Sal prunellae, saltpeter purified with brimstone: clean white saltpeter is as good for any use. Sal tartari, the salt of Tartar, or Wine lees, of excellent use in physic. Salutary, healing, or wholesome. Salutiferous, bringing health. Sanguification, the making of blood, or the conversion of the chylus into blood. Sanies vint, Wine lees. Sanity, health. Sapes, are medicinated juices which having been pressed out of fruits and herbs, have been brought to a consistency by standing in the Sun: but properly a Rob or Sapa is the juice of ripe Grapes squeezed out and boiled to the consistence of hony. Saphaena, the vein in the ankle usually opened for menstrual affects in Women. Sapo, soap, a good attractive and softening medicine. sapour, a taste. Sapors, tastes. Sarcoma, flesh growing in the nostrils like the proud flesh in a sore. Sarcotica, medicines used to breed flesh in hollow sores. Sarments, twigs o● trees. Sature, sowing of ●eeds. Saty●ismus, the same with Pryapis●us, i●●s a disca●e whereby a mans yard is kept continually standing. Scapulation, beating o● bruising with a staff. Scapula, see Omophlata. Scabies, a scab or itch. Scabies-Hisp●nica, the pox. Scansory, climbing. Scarrification, is the cutting of the skin to make a vent for it to bleed into a Cupping-glass. skeleton, the whole frame of bones in a mans body, the skin and flesh being consumed off. Sceiles, the veins of the Milt or Spleen. Scabrosity, roughness, filthiness. Schirrus, an hard tumour or sw●lling without much pain. Sciatica, the Hip gout which lies not only in the joints but in the flesh also of the bottocks. Sciolists, smatterers in knowledge. Scorbut, the Scurvy. Scorbutick persons, such as are diseased with the scurvy. Scotoma, a giddiness in the he●d. Scrophula, the Kings-evil so called because it comes in the Scropulous parts of the neck and throat. Scretum, the cod or skin wherein a mans stones are contained. Scruple, is twenty grains, or the weight of so many Barley corns. Scrupeus humour, the Gout. Scurvy, is a disease which proceeds of the putrefaction of Melancholy. Scutum, an Emplaister cut in form of a shield or buckler, to be applied to the stomach. Sealed earth, in latin it is called Terra sigillata: it's brought out of the Turks Dominions, and to prevent cozenage, sealed with a common seal which hath his badge, viz. the halfe-Moon on it. Sebel Arabum, the ruddy skin of the eye. Secession, ceasing to remain, departing away, separation. Section, a cutting or dividing any thing. Secundine, the skin or membrane wherein the child is wrapped in the Womb. Sediment, the settling or dreg● of urine or any other liquour. Sedulity, diligence. Segragate, separated, or gathered together apart by itself. Selection, choosing of simples. Semi-cupium, an half bath, o● shallow bath that reaches but up to the navel. Separation, a chemical term signifying to divide or separate the parts of any liquour or simplo each from other, as the moist parts by themselves, the dry by themselves, &c. Seplasiaries, shop keeprs o● such as keep shops of medicines▪ Druggists, or Apothecaries. Scricum crudum, raw silk. Serous-matter, wheyish, like whey. Seton, an hole made in the skin, and a skein of thread or silk drawn through, and kept in, which being stirred and moved every day, causeth the matter and corruption to come away. Siccation, is the drying up of excrementitious humors in bodies, either by the fire, in the sun, or in the shade. Siccity, dryness. Sief Arabum, a medicine for the eye. Sigillum Hermetis, Hermes seal: a sealing or luting of glasses in a more excellent way and manner than ordinary. Similarity, likeness. Similar diseases, are such as befall the substance of the body, not considered as formed into any limb, organ, or part: and these are opposed to organical distempers, which are peculiar only to the organs, and particular limbs of the body. Sinapisms, see Empasms. Sincere, pure, unm●●ed. Singultus, sighing or sobbing▪ it signifies also a depraved motion of the stomach called the Hiccough by which it desires to expel something that's burdensome unto it. Sisarco●is, a joining together by flesh. Sitis Morbosa, the thirsty disease, caused by an extreme salt and hot constitution of the body, and want of drink a great while together. Soda Arabum, the headache. Solely, alone. Solution, a chemical term: signifying the dissolving of a body or salt after it hath been coagulated. Solution of Continuity, a dividing of such parts as naturally ought to be united, so every wound or ulcer is called a solution of continuity. Sonitus Aurium, noise in the ears caused by windy vapours. Sorb-Apple, a service-berry. Sorbicle, broth, suppings. Sorditude, filth, dross, dregs. Sparadrap, an old linen rag dipped all over in any kind of plaster melted. Spasmus, Cramp or Cunvulsion, an involuntary retraction of the Nerves and Muscles towards their original. Species-Laetificantes, a powder whereby the heart is mightily cheered, and exhilerated. Species retained in the mind: are the shapes, ideas, or patterns of things either seen, or felt, or heard, or tasted, or smelled. specific quality, a peculiar hidden property or effect, for which no reason can be rendered, according to the received Maxims of the schools. Specifical virtue, that is the proper essential virtue peculiar t● one particular simplo, and no other. Species of objects, represent●tions of things seen; for the visible things themselves do no● enter into the eye, but certain figures and ideas of them. Speculum-oris, an instrument to hold open the mouth that the physician may view the diseased parts of the throat. Sperm, the seed of men o● Women. Sperma-coeti, it's commo● with all Apothecaries, being mixed with other things, it's used for blood clotted in the body by a bruise, or any other accident. Sphacelus, deadness of any part, when the flesh and bone are dead. Sphacelation, the same as before. Sphacelus, or mortification in the brain, is a suppuration or corruption of the matter or substance of the brain, and is called a Gangrene, Syderation, or blasting of the brain. Sphincter, the muscle of the arse. Spinal, of, or belonging to the back bone. Spinalus, a Carbuncle. Spinous, prickly, thorny. Spiracles, breathing-holes. Spissating, thickening. splenetic, troubled with the spleen. Splenetica, medicines good for the cure of the spleen: it signifies also the vessel of the spleen. Splen, the Milt. Spiritus acousticus, that portion of the Ammal spirit which in the ears discerneth sounds. Spiritus vini, spirit of Wine, a pure essential liquour distilled from Wine, cordial, and of infinite other virtues. Spiritus vitales, the vital spirits, the seat whereof is in the heart and arteries. Spondilia, the bones of the back. Spontaneous, free, willingly, without constraint, agreeable. Spume, foam, or froth. Spurious, counterfeit, not true. Sputation, spitting. Squalor, lothsomness, nastiness. Squallid, filthy, unwholesome. Squinancy, the squinzy, and inflammation in the throat. State of a disease, is when it is come to the worst or highest extremity. Steeled, liquour wherein steel hath been quenched or in●●sed. Stegnotica, things stoping, or that cause obstructions. Stercus Caninus, Dogs ●urd. Sternon, the great bone of the breast. Sternutation, sneezing ●● swift motion of the brain w 〈…〉 by the breath is forced out of the ●ole. Sternutatortes, me 〈…〉 s to snuff up into the nose to provoke sneezing. Stillatitious, distilled liquour, either waters, vinegar, or any thing that is capable of dropping. Stimulates, thrusts forward, provokes. Stomachicals, medicines peculiar to the stomach. Stranguria, the strangury. Strangulation, choking. Strenuously, stoutly. Stupes●ctives, medicines that ●enumn and stupefy the part whereto they are applied. Stupes, pledgets of lint, tow, o● cotton wool. stupefying, taking away the 〈◇〉 o● feeling; benumning. St●ph●s, stoves, or hot houses 〈…〉. 〈◇〉 benumned, besotted, 〈◇〉 no feeling or sense. S●●por, dullness. S●yp 〈…〉 〈…〉 ines, binders. S●●ave●l●●t, sweet smell. Sub 〈…〉, kneaded together with the hands. Subdu●●ion, is an abstraction of juices, oils, and other liquid m●tters, by straining, or filtering. Sub●th, Arabum, a sleepy disease or dead sleep. Subject, a Logical term, signifying any thing th●t h●●h somewhat adjoined, or ●nnexed to it. Subjected, put under. Sublevated, carried upward, as the vapours and sp 〈…〉 〈…〉 lation, or the due wh 〈…〉 S●● riseth. Sublimation, is a Chymed operation, when the 〈◇〉 matter in distillation, 〈◇〉 carried to the highest 〈◇〉 of the helm, and finding no p 〈…〉 ge forth, sticks to the sides thereof. Subsident, that which in extracts and dis●olutions 〈…〉 es to the bottom of a thicker consistency than all the rest. Substitute, put instead. Subtiliation, the d●ss●lving and separating the thin parts from the thick. Subvertio ventriculi, the destruction, or loss of appetite. Succe, juice, vital moisture either of a plant, or of an human body. Succedaneous, that take place, or succ●d in the room of others. Succinum Album, white Amb●r. Succinum Citrinum, yellow Amber. Succoraceous, juycie. Sudoroficks, medicines to procure sweeting. Sudour▪ sweat. Suffocated, choked, smothered. Suffecation, stisling, choking, smothering. Suff●u●icious, between a shrub and an herb. Suffusion, a spreading upon any thing: it's commonly used to signify a pin and web in the eye. Sugacious, full of juice. Sulphur, Brimstone: it's of a discussive, healing, drying virtue, good to preserve the natural heat of the body. Sulphur Philosophorum, God knows what the chemists mean by it; it signifies most commonly an universal medicine. Superfaetation, is the conception of a second child in the womb before the first be come to the birth. Superficial, slight, shallow, thin. Superficies, the out-side of any thing. Superfluous, needless, unnecessary, that doth more hurt than good. S●ppository, a little knob or roll of some saltish, sharp, tickling stuff that may provoke to stool being thrust up into the fundament: there are also Suppositories to be thrust into the Womb for divers causes. Suppression, stoping of the terms. Suppeditates, affords. Suppressio Nocturna, the night-Mare. Supurated, a tumour is said to be supurated when it's ripened ready to break. Surcles, young twigs or branches. Suspirious, broken winded. Sutura, is a joining of bones or any thing else, as the bones of the skull are joined; it signifies properly a sticking together: the futures of the skull are the seams thereof where its pieces are joined together. Silvestrian, such things as delight to grow in woods. Symbolical, eminent, distinguishing marks or tokens to know any thing by. Sympathy, when things agree one with another by an hidden property: it signifies a f●llow-feeling: also dis●ases are ●aid to be by sympathy when the principal cause is in some other part wherewith the part offending holds a correspondency: so pains in the head caused by evil humors in the stomach are s●id to come by sympa●hy: and sickness of ●he stomach caused by the stone 〈…〉 is a dis●ase of the ●●●mach by sympathy. Symptoms, evil dispositions of the body which depend on, a●● accompany a ●ise and, as heat▪ t●irst, headache, want of sleep, sickness at stomach, faint●●g, swooning, &c. Syncepe, swooning, a destruction of all feeling and stirring of the whole body with extreme fai●tness. Synchonoch●sis, is a joining together by a cartilege or gristle. Sync●put, the fore-part of the head. Syncurosis, a joining together by a ligament. Syn●lotica, medicines to dry up a ●ore, or to bring it to a Cicatrice. Systol, and Dyastol, are the motions of the pulse forward and backward: the Diastol, is that which the Artery thrusting itself forth doth as it were smite upon the finger of him that feels the pulse, and the sinking down again is the Systol. T Tabefied, wasted, melted, corrupted, dissolved. Tabid, wasted, melted, consumed. Tablets, are the same with Lozenges, which are medicines made up in little flat cakes of the bigness of an halfpenny either round or squar. Tact, taste. Tacamahacca, a sweet Gum whereof plasters for the toothache are usually made. Talcum, Talc, the oil Talc is much magnified in diseases of the eyes though the thing itself be scarce known. Tartarous matter, congealed hard substances of an acrimonious sharp nature, and therefore compared to Tartar of wine, being coagulated in the joints it's the principal cause of the Gout. Tartar, Argal, the Lees of Wine dried, of excellent and frequent use in physic. Tenasmus, a continual desire of going to stool though nothing be voided; the place of this disease is the end of the Arse-gut, hard by the fundament. Tenuious, thin, slender. Tenuifolious, thin-leav'd. Tepour, warmness. Terenjabin, Manna. Terra, earth, vulgarly taken for potters-earth to make lute of. Terestrial, earthly, heavy. Testicles, the stones called testes, because they witness a man to be a man: in the male they hang out at the roots of the yard at the bottom of the belly: but in women they are within by reason of a colder disposition. Tertiana, a fever of that name. Thorax, the chest is called the middle belly, it is circumscribed by the ribs and patel bones, and is separated from the lower belly by the midrif, and is the seat of the vital faculty, which hath its principal residence in the heart. Tigillum, a melting-pot or cruc●ble such as chemists and Goldsmiths use to melt metals or make strong calcinations in. Tile-tree, or Linden-tree, is a three that bears a fine sweet blosom of frequent use in physic. Tincture, the virtue or strength of any medicine drawn forth by steeping in vinegar, spirit of wine, or any piercing liquour whereby the virtue and colour thereof being retained, the liquour is called the tincture of such a plant or simplo. Tonsilla, the kernels growing within the mouth. Tonsillarum Inflamatio, the inflammation of the Almonds, which are of an hot and moist nature, and therefore mo●e subject to inflammation, they are most vexed with this evil who abound with blood. Topical medicines, such as are outwardly applied to the part affencted, as plasters, unguents, oils, cere-cloaths. Torcular, a press. Tormina, freting or wringing in the belly or guts. Torpor, numbness, or stupidity of the body or mind, the insensibleness of any part. Torrefaction, the highest degree of Siccation, or rather the parching or scorching any thing by the fire, or in an oven. Tortions, gripings of the stomach or bowels. Tortura oris, if it be from moisture, is a kind of palsy; if through dryness, then a kind of cramp; and is commonly a sign of death. Toxicum, a venom or poison wherewith Arrows are poisoned. Tract, place. Traction, drawing. Trajection, straining, as cheese is strained from the whey. Trafine, an invention of ou● famous chirurgeon Mr. Woodal, it being an instrument by him used instead of a Trepan, and far more commodious, as you may see in his Surgeons Mate. Translation, the removal of an humour or disease from one part of the body to another. Transmeat, that passeth through the pores of the body, as through the bottom of a sieve. Transmutation, is the changing of any thing in substance, colour, or quality: it's a chemical term, signifying the converting of one metal into another. Transparent, clear, that may be seen through; as glass, crystal, horn, fair water. Transpiration, the breathing or steeming forth of vapours through the skin of the whole body invisibly, only it may be discerned by the smell, which differs according to the predominant humour, some more, others less offensive. Transpire, to breath through. Transudation, sweeting through. Treblequantity▪ thrice as much. Tremor trembling, is an involuntary motion of the whole body, caused by fear or the apprehension of some eminent danger. Trepan, an instrument wherewith Surgeons( when necessity requires) take out a piece of the skull, it being to bore with like a wimble. Trient, a third part. Triture, breaking, crumming, or grinding. Troches, or Trochises, medicines made up in little flat bowls as the name signifies; they are never taken( for what intention soever) but they are first dissolved in some convenient liquour. Tubercles, knobs or swellings in a mans body. T●mor, a swelling that riseth in any part of the body for the most part, with design to break forth into an ulcer. Tundation, stamping, bruising, or pounding in ● mortar. Tunica reteformis, the net-like coat, or tunicle of the brain. Tunicles, little thin coats or coverings whereof the eye for the most part doth consist lying one within another like the scales of an onion. Turbinated, round at the top. Turbith mineral, a certain preparation of quicksilver, much used in the cure of the Frenchpox: it had need be rightly prepared, or it's very dangerous. Turgent, swelling, working, frothing, bubbling, moving to and fro: it's usually spoken of the humors of the body when they are in combustion and violent motion. Tussis, acough. Tutia, the scum of copper. Tympane, the drum of the ●ar. Tympany, a disease whereby the belly is caused to swell as if the patient were with child. Typliodes, a kind of continual Ague▪ V Validly, strongly, Vapid, naughty, old, musty, Vapor●us matter, any thing that is apt to fly up in fume o● steam. vapours steams ascending into the head like the steam we see ascend from a boiling pot. Varices, broken veins in the legs, or any other part of the body. Varicosa, the same with Varices. Variegated, differenced, sortted into many kinds. Vasa deferentia, vessels which carry the seed from the stones to the instruments of Generati●●. Vasa praeparantia, vessels which prepare the blood to be concocted into seed as they convey it to the stones. Vehicle, is that liquour, or other convenient matter, wherein any medicine is administered, that it may be the more effectually carried to the parts of the body whereto it's intended. Vena, a vein. Vena Cava, the great hollo● vein which receives th● blood from the Liver, and by its branches distributes it to all parts of the body. Vena Comunis, the median vein, or black vein. Vena Manifesta, the mother vein. Vena Pulsatilis, the pulse vein▪ Vena quieta, the blood veins▪ Vencry, the act of Love, o● carnal Copulation: it's usuall● put to signify excess in that sport. Venenosity, poysonfulness. Ventricle of the brain, a certain hollowness in the head wherein the brain lies. Ventriculus, the ventricle, or the stomach. Vermicular, worm-like, the pulse is so called when it's very weak and feeble and moves unequally more or less, much like the creeping of a caterpillar. Vertebrae, the little joyntbones which serve for the making up the back-bone, and for the bending and turning thereof. Vertex, the top of the head. Verticulate, turneth ●ound. Verig●, a giddiness in the head, near of kin to the falling sickness, wherein the head and all objects seem to turn round, so that the patient is neither able to stand nor go, but falls down, except he lay hold on something to stay himself upon. Verrucales-Hemorrhoides, the Piles or hemorrhoids. Vesicae, biliariae, the receptacle of pure choler. Vesicatories, things applied to ●he skin to draw blisters. Vi●is●●ude, changes, turnings, ●● a perpetual succession of changes. Vimineous, any thing made of wicker rods, like a B●sket. Vinum dilutum, Wine mixed with water. Vis●id Phlegm, clammy tough phlegm, roping like bird-lime. Viscous, clammy, roping, tough, like bird-lime. Visive-Nerve, the nerve that is the instrument of the visive faculty, or of seeing, whereby the objects of sight are carried into the brain to the imagination and judgement. Visor, or visive spirits, the spirits which are the principal instruments of sight. Vital Fa●ulty, the faculty of life, whereof the heart is the principal seat of residence▪ this is the cause of life, pulse, and breathing. Vitiligo, a foulness of the skin with spots of divers colours. Morphew. Vitrification, is the violent calcination of any C●lx or Ashes, till it melt into Glass. Vitriol, copperess. Vitrous humour, a moisture like to melted Glass o● crystal, which is a part of the eye: you may see it if you dissect the eye of a Calf or Sheep. Vitrum, Glass; i'ts used to signify Glass distilling vessels, or any other vessels made of Glass. Ulcerated, a sore turned to an ulcer: a part that hath Ulcers in it. Ulcus, an ulcer. Umbilical Vessels, the Navel and the parts thereto belonging which is called Umbilicus from its Convolutions or foldings one within another. Urbane, pleasant. Urine, both of men and children is used in alchemy, as also in physic and Chirurgery frequently▪ both externally and internally. avaricious, oily, fatty. Uncultivated, untilled. Universal Evacuation, a general purging of the whole body all at once. Voluntary faculty, that power of the body which serves the Will in disposing the whole man to any action, as going, running, speaking, or whatever is voluntary and obedient to the command of our Wills and may be acted or forborn at pleasure: Whereas the powers of beating in the pulse, of digestion in the stomach or liver, of motion in the heart, are not within our own power; and therefore are termed involuntary. Vovulus, Iliaca passio a pain in the gum 〈…〉 uppe 〈…〉 Child in the Womb to the Allontois. Ureters, certain long and very slender pipes or passages which convey the urine from the Kidneys to the Bladder. Ureting, pissing. Urethra, a common passage of the yard both for seed and urine. Ustion, burning or scorching of any thing whereby it may the easier be reduced to powder. Usurped, used. Vulva, a Womans privy member. Uvula, the palate of the mouth. Uteri Phymosis, straightness of the Womb, insomuch that it will not admit of seed, but if it do, it brings death to the Woman: sometimes the yard of a Man is troubled with this Phymosis upon the foreskin. Uvea Tunica, a Coat of the Eye, resembling the skin of a Grape, whence it hath its ●ame. Vulncral, Medicines belonging to Wounds, viz. plasters, Salves, &c. And inward Potions, Diet-Drinks, &c. W Warmth, heat. watery humour, A certain humour resembling fair Water in the Composition of the Eye. Watergate, a Womans privy member. Whites in Women, is a flux of filthy corrupt stuff, from their privities. Womb-fury, a lustful desire. Womb-Imperforated, such as Virgins have, like a barrel of beer unboared till it have a spigot put in it. Z Zanie, a foolish imitator to a Tumbler: the familiar of a Witch. Zachariae flos, the blue-bottle. Zacutus Lusitanus, a Jew that practising physic at Amsterdam, became very famous in his Art: there are many Pieces of his in Print; he was of the Gallenical way, & not unlearned. Zarsa parilla, the Root of rough Bindweed, brought us from Spain and Peru, where it had this name given it. Zedoary, a certain Root brought to us from beyond Sea, sold at the Druggists. Zenith, that part of the Heavens which is direct over our heads. Zyrbus, Barbarorum, the cawl or suet wherein the bowels are wrapped. FINIS. Books printed and sold by John Garfield at the Rolling press for pictures near the Royal Exchange, in cornhill, Viz. RHaenodaeus Medicinal Dispensatory; containing the whole Body of physic, discovering the Natures, Properties, and Virtues of the Plants, Minerals, and Animals, the manner of Compounding Medicines, with the way how to administer them: Methodically digested into Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmacentical Institutes; Three Books of Physical Materials▪ both Galenical and chemical▪ with a perfect Apothecaries shop: and a Physical Dictionary adjoined with the said Dispensatory, explaining all the hard Words and Terms of Art in the said Dispensatory. Ochinus his Dialogue of Polygamy and Divorce; wherein all the Texts of Holy Scripture and Arguments from Reason and the Laws and Customs of Nations that have been, or can be brought for, or against Polygamy, are urged and answered interchangeably, by two persons. Daphnis and Chloe, a most sweet, amorous, and pleasant Pastoral Romance for young Ladies: Translated out of Greek by George Thornly, Gentleman.