The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyrurgical instruments and their use; are accurately describ'd. Also the names and virtues of medicinal plants, minerals, stones, gums, salts, earths, &c. And the method of choosing the best drugs: the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecaries art; and the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them / By Stephen Blancard.

  • Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702
Date:
1702
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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. Also the names and virtues of medicinal plants, minerals, stones, gums, salts, earths, &c. And the method of choosing the best drugs: the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecaries art; and the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them / By Stephen Blancard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jejunum, and about the begin¬ ning of the Ileum, which are called Semi-circular from their Figure. Thefe Valves or Folds grow more and more oblique by litle and little, the nearer you come to the Ileum, and at the beginning of the Ileum they are lefs oblique than farther on. In like manner, near the end of the Jejunum, they are gradual¬ ly more and more diftant from one another j and fo in the Ile¬ um too. At the beginning and in the middle of the Jejunum , they are fcarce diftant half a Thumbs breadth; ?n the Ileum a whole Thumbs breadth and more: They yield a little if thru ft with your Finger, and move here and there .* At the beginning of the Colon there is a flefhy and circular Valve, be- fides feveral others in that Gut. The Ufe of them is to flop the Meat a little, that it may be the better fermented, the Chyle diftributed, the adjacent Parts be cherifhed with Heat, and laftly, that it afcendsnot again. Vaporarium, is when the Pa¬ tient does not fit ill Liquor, but receives Vapours through an Hole , under which there is placed a Pot full of appofiteand boyling hot Ingredients, which cooling , freftt Matter is added. Variciformes parafirat# , fo called, becaufe they have many Turnings, that they may work the Seed the better. Varkoum corpus, that Contex¬ ture of Spermatick Veffels which enters the Tefticks. VarioU, the Small-Pox, coif- fifts in a contagious Diforder of the Blood, contracted from the Air,or otherwife *, accompanied with a continued wandring Fe¬ ver, which fometimes increafes, fometimes decreafes, with a Pain in the Head and Lyons, Anxiety and Inquietude , and with a breaking forth of Pim¬ ples or Wheals, which fwell and fuppurate. The famous Willis, attributes the Caufe of this Diftemper to fome filthy and fermentative Matter, which is communicated to the foetus, together with the Nouriftiment from the Womb ^ but how this can hold in Adult Perfons , whofe Blood has undergone fo many Alterations, I could ne¬ ver yet underftand from his Writings. It feems rather to confift in a depraved Tempera¬ ture of Air, with a peculiar Difpofition of the Blood and nervous Juice towards this Di¬ ftemper. This Poyfonous Qua¬ lity of the Air firft infefts the nervous Juice (whence proceeds the Pain of the Head and Loins) wherewith the Blood boils and ferments, and parts into little Pieces or Clots, which in the Courfe of Circulation, ftick to the outward Parts, and to the inner V/fcera too ^ after a while they grow ripe and fup¬ purate. Varix, fee Chfos. Varus, fee Johnthus, Vas breve, fee Breve vas, Vrafai the VefTels, Cavities through which the Liquors of the