A new dictionary of medical science and literature: containing a concise account of the various subjects and terms : with the synonymes in different languages : and formulae for various officinal and empirical preparations, &c. &c (Volume 2).

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1833
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    The MED'ULLARY SYS'TEM. Bl- chat gives this name to the marrow and its membranes. He distinguishes two species of medullary systems ; the one occupies the cellular tissue at the extremities of the long bones and that of the flat and short bones ; the other is found merely in the central canal of long bones. MED'ULLARY MEMBRANE, Peri- os'teum inter'num. A vascular, areolar web, of extreme tenuity, which envel- opes the marrow and lines the inner surface of the medullary canal of the long bones. This membrane has been considered as a species of internal peri- osteum of those bones. It has numer- ous vessels, which bury themselves in the thickness of the marrow; aad oth- ers which nourish the innermost plates of the bone. MED'ULLARY AR'TERIES. The ar- teries, which enter bones and pass to the marrow. Megalanthropogen'esis ( Hyg.) from usyas, ' great,' avfyumo?,' man,' and yivcoig,' birth.' A term, used by a French physician, named Robert, to designate the art of procreating great men; men of mind; men of genius. He considered, that they may be perpet- uated by always taking care to have talented men united to clever women ! Megalei'on (Pharm.) fttyakttov, Magna'le. Mende'sion, iiBrdtjaiov. An aromatic ointment, described by Dios- C0RIDES. Megalosplanch'nos (Path.) Mega- losplanchnis, utyaloanXay %rog, from fie- yalog,' great,' and anXayxvov, ' a vis- cus.' Hippocrates applies the epithet to those in whom any viscus is tumid. Some have used the substantive, Mega- losplanchnia, for the tumor itself. MEGAL0SPLE'NiA§(PatAj from utya- 2-o$, * great,' and anXijv, ' the spleen.' Swelling of the spleen. MEGLIN, J. A. (Biogr.) A French physician; born at Sulz, in Alsace, in 1756; died in 1824. Works. Traite sur la nevralgie faciale. Dissertation sur Vusage des bains dans le tettmos: Analyse des eaux de sultzmatt. 1779. 8vo. MEIBO'MIUS, John Hen'ry {Bi- ogr.) A respectable German physi- cian and professor; born at Helmstadt, in 1590 ; died in 1655. Works. Hip- pocratis. Oqxo$, sive commentarius in Hippocratis jusjurandum. Lugd. Bat. 1643. 4to. De flagrorum usu in re venerea*. Ibid. 1643. 4to. In English. Lond. 1718. 12mo. De mitkridato et theriacd discursus. Lubecae. 1652. 4to. De cerevisiis potibusque et ebriamini- bus extra vinum aliis, commentarius. Helmst. 1668. 4to. MEIBO'MIUS, Hen'ry (Biog.) Son of the preceding; born at Lubeck in 1638; died in 1700. Works. De incu- batione in fanis deorum, mediciruB causd, olim factd. Helmst. 1659. 4to. Observationes medicce de affectibus omissis. Ibid. 1664. 4to. De vasis palpebrarum novis, epistola ad Joelem Langelottum. Ibid. 1666. 4to. De ossium contusione disputatio. Ibid. 1668. 4to. De medicorum historid scri- bendd epist. ad Georg. Hieron. Vel- shium. Ibid. 1669. 4to. Meibo'mius, Glands of (Anat.) FoV- licles of M., Palpebral Fol'licles, CW- iary F., Glan'dula. seba'cece cilia'res vel MEIBOMIA'NJE. Small, sebaceous follicles, called after Henrv Meibo- mius, although known long before his description of them. They are situated in special grooves in the tarsal carti- lages ; and are ranged by the side of each other, in the form of yellowish, parallel, and vertical lines; sometimes straight, at others, tortuous. They may be seen at the inner surface of the eyelids, through the conjunctiva, and secrete a sebaceous humor, called Lip- pitudo, (F) Chassie, Gum, (G) Augen- trie f e. (F) Follicules palpebraux ou ciliaires, Glandes de Meibomius. Meio'sis (Path.) fittum?, Imminu'- tio, fiiyvSijatg. The period of a disease, in which the symptoms begin to dimin- ish : —the decline. Mel (Hyg.) usli, Hel, JS'ili'acum, n/.iay.ov, Hon'ey. A substance, of a mucoso-saccharine nature, prepared by the Apis mellifica or common bee, which collects it from the nectaries of flowers. Honey is employed as ali- ment, condiment, and medicine. It is demulcent and aperient; and is em- ployed as an adjunct to gargles in cynanche tonsillaris, &c. It is, at times, used as a detergent to foul ul- cers. Vir'gin Hon'ey, (F) Miel vierge, (G) Jungfernhonig, is that whfch flows from the wax spontaneously. (F) Miel. (G) H o n i g. Writers. G. Ch. Moeller, Jenro, 1691 (L). B. Ewaldt, Regiom. 1711 (L). A. Venturi, Ven. 1763 (L). A. Th. Martini, (Enopont. 1771 (L). Hill's Bal'sam of Hon'ey is formed of balsam, tolu. ftjj, honey }bj, rectified spirit, one gallon. It was long a cele- brated empirical pectoral.