The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments and their use; are accurately describ'd / [Steven Blankaart].

  • Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702.
Date:
1697
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Credit: The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments and their use; are accurately describ'd / [Steven Blankaart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cacoa, the Fruit cf a Tree growing in America,of a brown Colour, and about the bignefs of an Almond, of which they make Chocolette. Cacochymia, the Abundance of Ill Humours in the Blood : And it is either Ulcerous, Bi¬ lious, Pituitous, Melancholick, Acid, Salt, or Sharp. Cacochylia, a bad Chylifica- tion. Cacoethes, Chironium ulcus, cr Telephi urn, a Difeafe or Ulcer beyond Cure, which is called a Maligant Ulcer : This happens when an Ulcer is callous, or fi- nuous, under which there fome- times lie little putrihed Bones. Cacophoma, an III Voice, pro¬ ceeding from an Ill Conflitution of Organs. Cacorhithmus, an Unequal Pulfe. Cacothrophia,an Ill Nutriment, proceeding from a fault in the Blood; as in a Leprofie, Ring¬ worms, &c. Caducus Morbus, fee Epilepfia. Cacum Inteftinum, the Fourth Gut in order from the Pylorus. Cafarea Setlio, the fame with Hyftertomotocia. Calaminaris Lapis, a Yellow Stone, which when burning, gives a Yellow Fume, found in Metallick Mines. Of this Cop¬ per-Smiths make Brafs. Calamus Aromaticus , fweet- fmelling Reed or Cane. Some will have it to be Galangal o- thers the Acarus. Calamus Scriptorius, a certain Dilatation, about the Fourth Vent irle of the Brain which is after irds pointed, from which u ape -it has its Name. Calcaneus, the fame with Calx. Calchoidea, three little Bones in the Foot, which withothers make up that part of the Foot whichfucceedsthe Ancle: And Fallopius calls then} Cuneformia, made like Wedges. Calcinatio , the folution of a mix’d Body into Powder by Fire, or any corroding things j as Mercury, Aquafortis, &c. Calculus, the Stone, is an hard preternatural concretion in a Mans Body, which is often bred in the Reins, Tefticles, and o- ther parts, from Saline and Earthy Particles concreted toge¬ ther. Caldarium, the fame with Laconicum. Calidum Innatum, fee Emphi- turn thermum, or Biolychnium. j Callicreas, or Pancreas, a con¬ glomerated Glandule , placed under the hinder part of the Ventricle, about the length of Three or Four Fingers in a Man: It is encomparfed with a thin Membrane from the Peri- tonaum : It is terminated in Man near the Common DuZlus, or Paffage of the Bile into the Gut Duodenum, and difiils a Volatile Infipid fort of a Juice: ButS>/- vius and de Graaf affirm, That they have found an Acid and Subacid juice there j nay, fome- times an auftere and a fweet one ; and this, they fay, is the Original of all Difeafes: But