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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    Mans Body, which is often bred in the Reins, Tefticles, and o- thcr parts, from Saline and Earthy Particles concreted toge¬ ther. Caldariutn , the fame with Laconicum. Calandula, a Marigold, the Flowers are Cordial, Hepatick, and ^lexipharmick, and pro¬ voke Sweat, and the Courfes, and haften delivery: the diftill’d Water Dropt into the Eyes, or Raggs wet in it, and applied to them, cures the Rednels, and Inflammation of them. Calidum Innatum, fee Emphi- tttm thermumi or Biloycknium, 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 encompafled with a thin Membrane from the Peri¬ toneum,: It is terminated in Man near the Common DtiZlus, or Paflage of the Bile into the Gut Vuodemm, anddiftils a Volatile tafipid fort of Juice : ButSyl- iSius and de Graaf affirm. That tley have found an Acid and Sibacid Juice there *, nay, fome* tints an auftere and a fvveet one ; and this, they fay, is the Orignal of all Difeafes : But we ntyit know, that this polli- bly 4s obferved, when fcarce One it twenty which they dif¬ fered vas found exaftly found. Its ufe i\ to temperate the Chyle, which is fomething Acid, and the bittdnefs of the Gall with its Volatile Juice, that it may at laft enter the Ladteals with a fvveet taft. Calligonum, the fame with Polygonon. Calix and Calices, fee Alabd' firi. Callmymus is Lilium Conval- linm, Lilly of the Valleys. Callitrichmn, or Poly trie hum, is an Herb that finely Paints the Hair. Callus, a kind of fvveliing without pain, like Skin con- trailed by too much labour. Calomelas, is Mercmius Duicis. Calor Kativus, fee Biolychini- um, Calva, is the Scull, alfo the upper Hairy part of the Head, which either by Difeafe or old Age, grows Bald firft. Calvaria, the fame with Cal¬ va. Calvitium, that. Baldnefs which is naturally incident to old Age. Calx, the Second Bone in that Part of the Foot which is join’d to the Ancle, bigger and fironger than the red ^ oblong, and grows backward, that a Man may ftand more ftrongly upon it, and not fall fo eafily back¬ ward. Calx alfo is that which by Calcining, is either turn’d into Alcool, as Calx Saturni, or at leafl is made Friable, as Hartf- horn burnt. Calx, is a Chymical term, ufed when any Powder is ren¬ dered, Impalpaple by the ta¬ king away of its moifture and this is to be underftood, of me¬ tals,. ar,d Minerals, Corroded