Volume 2

The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].

  • Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
Date:
1681
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Credit: The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cribrous, Sivelikp, or that hath holes like a Sive. Crude, Raw, undigefled. Crudities, Raw andundigefled humors, or raw- nefl, or indigeflion of any thing. Crifis, Is the time of the turn of the difeafe when it either increafes or diminijhes, always obfervedl by the P by fit tans. Critical, To the Crifis, or fuch time belonging. Cremafieral, Mufcles belonging tothcTefiicles. Crural, Belonging to the Leg. Crucible, An earthen Vejfel ufed to melt Metals with. Cucurbite, A Glafl-body with a great Belly, ufed in dijlillations. Cuneform, Wedg-likg or in form of a IFedg : a bone fo Jhaf d. Cutaneous, Belonging to the skin, or skinny. Culinarie, Belonging to the Kitchin. Cuticula, The little thin slqn under the Cutis or the upper skin. Cutis, The upper or outward skjn of the Body. D * Dead bead, The fame with Caput mortuum. Dccapulation, A pouring off. Defection, A failing, weaknefior infirmity. Decodion, A boyling or feetbing. Defecated, Made free from dregs. Deflagration, A flaming or burning forth. Deliquium, As of the fait of Tartar, a clear draining, alfo a fweoning away, or a failing of the fenj'es. Delirium, A raving madnefl, as in Feavers. Deltoldes, A mufeic in the top of the Arm, having the figure of a De!t3, the Greek D. Demerfed, Drowned. Depauperated, Made poor or wafled. Depraved, Corrupted or marred. Depurated, Cleanfed from dregs. Depuration, A cleanfing or making pure. Defultory, Leaping, wavering or inconfiant. Diabetes, The Piffing evil, a difeafe that caufetn the party troubled therewith almojl continually to pifi, and in a great quantity a clear and fweetijh water. Diacodium, A Syrup to procure fleep, made of the tops of Poppy. Diagnolis, Dilucidation, or Knowledg. Diagridium, See Scammony. Diaphorefis, Evaporation, as by fwsating. Diaphoretic, That caufeth Evaporation, orfweat- ing forth of humors. Diaphanous, Clear and fplendid. Diaphragma, The Midriff that feparateth the Heart and Lights from the flomacb. Diapnoon,? ^ breathing forth. Diapnoe, y b Diarrhea, A loo finefi of the Belly,without inflam¬ mation, a Lask- Diafcordium, A Cordial medicine made of Scot- urn and other Ingredients. Diaftole, The rifling up of the Heart or Artery, the contrary motion of Syfiole. Diathefls,. The affection or diflofition, Diluted, Rinfed or wafhed. Dilucidation, An explaning or clearing. Dioptric, Belonging to the Perfldlive,or a Mathe¬ matical Infirument , thorow which they lottk^ to take the height of a thing. Divarications, A varying or fevering into party running up and down, as the Vtins and Nerves. Diver for y, A diverting place, or a place to turn of one fide out of the way. Diurefis, Evacuation byVrin. Diuretick, A Medicine that caufeth evacuation by Vrin. Dogmatic, Stiff in Opinion. Duodenum, The firjl Gut or Intedine of twelve fingers long. Dura mater, The hard membrane or tunicle that encompaffeth the Brain next the skull. Dyfcrafie, Intemperature, as fome humor or qua¬ lity abounding in the Body. Dyfentery, A flux of the Belly that corrodes the Bowels and often caufes blood, called then the Blondy flux. Dyfpathy, A contrariety of affeflion. Dyfpnoea, A purfimefl or (hortnefl of breathing, and a flopping of the Conduits of the Lights. E Ebullition, A boiling up. Eccentric, Without Centre. Eccathartic, Not purging. Eccritic, Not critical Edulcorated, Made fweet. Effervef'elncy ^ ^ being very hot or inflamed. Effluvia, Things that flow out of the Body, as fleam and breath thorow the pores of the slfin. Egeftion, A cafling forth as ordure from the Body, or any excrement it ious humor. . Egritude, Sicknefl or not being well. Elaftick, That goeth off with a force like Gun¬ powder, or flreads forcibly forth with a jerk. Elaterium, A violent flrong purging Medicine. Elixation, A boyling. Elixir, An Arabian word for Quinteffence, high Cordials fo called. Elogie, A report in praife or diflraife of a thing. Emanations, Things that flow or proceed from the Body or its parts s flowing forth. Embryo, The Child before it hath perfeci Jhape in the Mothers womb. Emiffaries, Vlaces that fends forth any thing as the finks of the Body. Empirical, Belonging to an Empiric^ or of k>iow- ledg in P by fief, got by pr a ft ice only. Empiric, Such a Phyfitian who hath no judgment, but has’ all his skill from practice, or by experi¬ ments. Empyema,