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 vertues of medicinal plants, minerals, stones, gums, salts, earths, &c. and the method of chusing the best druggs: the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecary's art: the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them / By Stephen Blancard.

  • Steven Blankaart
Date:
1715
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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 vertues of medicinal plants, minerals, stones, gums, salts, earths, &c. and the method of chusing the best druggs: the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecary's art: the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them / By Stephen Blancard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ] raw Wounds Co fupprefs lnflam- I mation, and quicken Congluth j tion. AUpafam, a final] Duft, which i mixt with Oil,is ufed to be foak’d 1 into theBody to hinder fweating. Alifma is the Water Plantanegds i fome will have it. See Saponaria, I Alites, Birds, Alitura5 the A£Kon of a live 3 Body, whereby the perpetual * wafte of Blood, Spirits, and Sub ( ftance is continually repair’d by } the acceffion. of new Nutritious j Juice, rightly prepar’d and fer- i men ted, and then ftuck upon the : parts that are to be nourifh’d. Alkaheft, fee Alcahefl. | Alkali y fee Alcali. Alk'an»iy an Elefluary or Con- feftion. Alkaray a Cucurbite, Alkermes, a Juice orConfe£Hon j of that Name. Alkiam is call’d the nourifhing i Spirit that governs Man,by which j the converfion of the Nutrition [ and the generation of the Animal is made ; and by this the Man fubfifts,for ’tis the Subftance that 1 mixeth all the reft. Alkibric is Sulphur <vivumy or incombuftible Sulphur, Alkiny Pot-alhes. Allantoides, the Urinary Tunic placed betwixt the Amnion and the Chorion, which by the Navel and Urachus receives the Urine that comes out of the Bladder. ?Tis call’d likewife FareiminaUsy becaufethat in many Brutes Stis of the fhape of a Gut-pudding 5 but in Man and fome other few Animals’tis round, and like the thin foft Skin which wrappeth the Child in the Womb. Alleluja3 five OxpriphyUum, five Trifolium acetofum, Wood for rej, Alliarxris, a S pa gy ideal Term in the bufmefs of the Philo,pher?§ Stone, ftgnifying the Phildfophf* cal Brafs, the white Brafs, the Water of Mercury, and the Lilly ftript from the Thorns, Alii aria y and Al!iarity Jack by the Hedge; Country People ufe it in Sauces; when ’tis green it provokes Urine, when ’tis dry’it expels Poifon ; being boil’d in Wine, or mix’d with Honey, cures old Coughs \ if rubb’d be¬ twixt your Fingers, it fmells like Garlick. IAUiumviQd.flick being beat up with Iapply’d to the Soles oPIW Feet, it opens th@ ftoppages of the Lungs. Ajliotieum, a Galenical Medi» cine,- which by fermentation and cleaning alters and purihes th§ Blood,boil’d up for the moft part of the root of Sowthiftle,Cichory.? Fennek'Endive^Lettice^Currans^ Sorrel, &c» AUogotrophia, a difproportfo.-- mate Nutrition, when one part of ; theBody is nourifh’d more or left j dhan another, as in the Rickets? j Smagra is a red Earth, Of Staton. Almarkafitay Mercury,.; Almene, Sal Gem. Almi^adiry Yerdegrife. Alneey d in. Alnusy the Alder-tree,the green Leaves of this Tree apply’d to Tumours, difeuffes them, and takes off Inflamations. The Wood of this Tree is ftubborn,and very apt to break. aIg?9 Aloes, the Juice of a cer¬ tain Plant, of which there arce divers kinds, as the Indian, the A ra bia n. A m e r lea % Egv pt ia n ? 1% hr*