Volume 2

The London medical dictionary; including under distinct heads every branch of medicine ... with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history / By Bartholomew Parr.

Bartholomew Parr

Date:: 1809

Credit: The London medical dictionary; including under distinct heads every branch of medicine ... with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history / By Bartholomew Parr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Tlie Clive of passion difTcrs in no respect from h t of coJ'’ from introsusception, we . \ ^-vf that it is seldom known. Practical authors remarked^ that if the gut has fallen into the in- testine below, laxatives are injurious, and the cure must be attempted by clysters. The contrary practice is preferred in opposite circumstances. This is, how- ever, a refinement which we cannot apply, as the exist- ence of either is unknown. Clysters of the fumes of tobacco will, in this species of disease, be particularly useful ; and the warm bath is frequently salutary. A blister also to the abdomen, a remedy particularly adapted to Ini’LAM- MATio INTESTINOUL M, cj. V. is often useful in this disease. I'he prognostics are favourable while inflammation is absent\i hile clysters can be thrown up, and returned by stool; while the pains shift, and the pain and vomit- ing occur only at intervals : it is still more promising, if a laxative, taken by the mouth, passes by the anus j but if little or no relief .is obtained by stool for some days there is scarcely room for hope. Indeed none, unless true faeculent matter is copiously discharged. An entire suppression of urine is a dangerous symptom, tliough some degree of suppression generally attends. See Plippocrates de Morbis; Aretaeus; Coelius Au- relianus; Celsus; F. Hoffman j Sydenham j London Medical Observations and Inquiries, vol. i. p. 223, See.-, Edinburgh hledical Commentaries, vol. ix. p. 260, 278. Ilt'aca mi'nor, akte'ria, is the most posterior branch of the hypogastric artery j sometimes the branch of the glutaea. Ili'aca va'sa. The Ii,iaga=: arterije and ven.®, which see. ILI'ACiE ARTE'lUiE; belonging to the ilia. The ILIAC ARTERIES are formed by the bifurcation of the aorta, at about the fourth vertebra of the loins. They descend nearly three fingers’ breadth from their origin; and when tlnw arrive at the psoas muscle, on each side, or are ujxjn it, each divides into two, an external and an internal; the external hath no particular namej the internal is called kj/pogastrica. See Hypogastricje ARTERI.E. The external iliac, on each side, runs down to the .ligamentum Fallopii, under which it goes out of the abdomen. In this course^ it gives off a few small ar- teries to the perilonseum, and parts near it j but, as it passes out of the belly, under the ligament, it detaches two coivsiderable branches, one internal, the other ex- ternal; the inner is called Epig astrica, q. v.; the cxernal, Innominata, q. v. The external iliaca also gives oft’a small branch internally, under the ligament, which runs to the vagina or the spermatic chord, and lometimes another from the outside of the os ilium. For the internal iliac artery, see Hyrogastric.’E ARTKRi a;. Ili'aca; vk'na:, (from the same). Ii.tac vein.s, titillarcs vernr, are formed by the bifurcation of the vena cava, about the last vertebra of the loins. After their leaving the vena cava, each divides into two principal branches; the iliaca externa, or anterior; and the iliaca interna, or posterior : the external, which seems the true continuation of the trunk, is sometimes simply named iliaca; the internal hypogastrica: each follows the course of the respective arteries. The external iliac veins He a little on the inside of the arteries, and, before they leave the abdomen, they accompany their corresponding- arteries, botli in their course and in their divisions into branches. ILI'ACUS EXTE'RNUS, MUSCULUS, (from the same). See Pyriformis. Ili acus iNte rnus, MUSCULUS, lies upon the con- cave part of the ilium, arising likewise from the an- terior edge of the bone, and runs down before the psoas muscle; it then runs over the head of the bone, and passes inwards, to be inserted into ftie little trochanter; lifting, in its action, tlie thigh upwards. ILI ADUM. The three• principles of Paracelsus. Sometimes, according to the same author, a mineral spirit, supposed to be contained in.every element, and the cause of diseases. ILIA'S'PER. The occult virtue of nature, whence all things increase. Paracelsus. ILI'NGOS, (from lAiy^, a vortex). See Vertigo. I'LION. See Ileum intestinum. LLIOS. See Pa.ssio iliaca. ILLSCUS. Madness occasioned by loi’e. Avicenna. I LIUM, OS ; os iunominatum, but strictly its upper part. Its name is given from its supporting the ilia. The ilium forms the upper and posterior portion of the pelvis, extending to the transverse section of one third of the acetabulum. The external side is convex, called its dorsum ; the internal part is its costa; tlie superior semicircular edge, the spine. The whole cavity is called diolas, or c/io/ago. Between the os sacrum and the ilium is the sciatic notch, where the sciatic nerve and posterior crural vessels pass without being subject to compression. ILLECE'BRA, (from siXecu, to turn; because its leaves resemble worms), vernncularis,'piper murule,sedum 7uimts. Wall pepper and stone crop. ISedum acre Lin. Sp. PI. 6] 9; is a very acrid plant, proving vio- lently emetic and cathartic, so that the best authors have thought it unsafe. It has been employed, how- ever, boiled in milk, as an antiscorbutic, and has been occasionally used in epilepsies. When employed iu scurvy, a handful is boiled in eight pints of milk to four. Macquer recommends it in scrofulous and cancerous ulcers. ILLEGLTIMUS, (from in, and legitimus, laieful). Illegitimate; an epithet for tlie false ribs, and for some anomalous fevers. ILLLNCTUS, (JromillingOjto lick up), SeeLiNCTUS. ILLI'SIO, (from illidor, to dash against). See Enthlasis. ILLISIO NFS AQUA’RUM. See C.vt.aclysmus. TLLOS, (from nKsw, to turn round). See Oculus. JLLOSIS, (from the same). See Strarismus. ILLUMINA'BILIS LA'PIS, {(romtllumino,toshinc). See Bononiensis lapis. ILLUTA'TIO, (from in, upon, and tutum, mud). Illutation ; besmearing any part of the body with, mud, and renewing it as it grows dry, with the vague or ridiculous view of lieating, drying, and discussing. Ihe mud found at the bottom of mineral spriu<’s is chiefly employed. I'LLYS, (from siAew, to turn round). A person af- fected with strabismus. I'LYS, (from tXv;, 7nud). Ihe F/ECES of wine;$