A new medical dictionary; or, general repository of physic. Containing an explanation of the terms, and a description of the various particulars relating to anatomy, physiology, physic, surgery, materia medica, chemistry, &c. &c. &c. ... / by G. Motherby.

Motherby, G. (George), 1732-1793.

Date:: 1791

Credit: A new medical dictionary; or, general repository of physic. Containing an explanation of the terms, and a description of the various particulars relating to anatomy, physiology, physic, surgery, materia medica, chemistry, &c. &c. &c. ... / by G. Motherby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Bonduch Indorum;—acacia gummi, fee Arabicum gummi ; —Indicana, fee T am ARINDUS;—Malabarica glo- bcfa, fee Intyia;—orbis Americani, fee Poingiana;— Zeylanica, fee Lignum Campeghense. Acacia ferrea, an iron fpoon. -'Acdcia isalfo a name of the courbariL ACACOS, from a negative, and kakos, bad. It is applied to diftempers that are more trOublefome than dan¬ gerous : alfo to the aphthae of children. ACAHI, Alum water. ACAID, Vinegar. ACAJA, alfo called prtinus Brafflienffs. It is a large tree growing in Brafil. It produces clufters of yellowilh white flowers, which are followed by yellow plums-* with a large ftone in them. The leaves are acid and aftringent, and are an agreeable fauce with meat; the wood is light as cork, and of a red colour; the buds and tops are ufed as pickles. Raii Hill. , ACAJAIBA, or Acaiaiba. The acajaiba is alfo palled pomifera IA prunifera Indica, anacardium, cajum, caffju, catee, cajou, cajous, acajou, ZA kapa mara. It is the anacardium pruniferum Indicum, nuce reniformi of Linnseus. The Brafilian name for the anacardium occidentale. The Cajou or cassu-tree. There is but one fpecies yet known, and this is the acajou, or cashew nut, fo common in America, and in the Weft Indian iflands. It produces its fruit in Auguft and September, except in Brafil, where it is a native, and there it flowers in thefe months, and bears its fruit in December, which, when roafted, is as agreeable as an almond. If you bite the whole fruit when raw, it ex¬ coriates the mouth; therefore it rnuft firft be cut open, dipped in water, and fprinkled with fait. The acrid oil in the fhell deftroys tetters, ring-worms, the Guinea-worm, &c. The painters ufe it to make their black colouring durable. The tree when wounded yields a gum, which refembles the gum arabic. Raii Hift. ACAJOU. See Acajaiba. It is alfo a name of the anacardium occidentale. ACAJOUANUM LIGNUM. This is not the wood of the tree that bears the acajou nut. It is mentioned by Geoffroy as being of a red colour, and never affected by worms, therefore fit for furniture. ACAJUIBA BRASIL. See Anacardium. ACALAI, Salt. ACALCUM, Tin. ACALEPHE, axa.niipn, a nettle, from a, a negative, agreeable, and aQv, a touch, bccaufe the touch, as it hurts, is not agreeable. There is alfo a fifh and a fea-fowl thus named. ACANOR, a chemical furnace. ACANTHA, from axt], a point, axavQa, any fort of thorn; any thing prickly, or with fharp points ; alfo the Ihin, or fpine of the tibia ; and fometimes the fpina dorfi. ACANTH ABOLUS, from axavQa, a thorn, and (3an\u, to caff, or caff out. It is an inftrument defcribed by Pau- lus ZEgineta, for taking out thorns, or other fuch like things, when ftuck into the flefh. ACANTHA CAUCAS. A fpecies of globe-thiftle. ACANTHACEUS Acanthaceous, a botanic term applied to the plants of the thiftle kind, which are prickly. ACANTHALZUCA, the fame as echinopus, orglove- thiftle. ACANTHICE, a.xavthx» fxariyjfi, fuppofed to be the product of the carline thiftle. ACANTHINA MASTICHE, the pine-thistle. ACANTHINUM (gum.) See Gum arabic. ACANTHION, the hedge-hog. See Echinus. ACANTHIUM, the cotton-thistle. See Car- DUUS TOMENTOSUS. ACANTHOIDES PARVA. A fpecies of carline thiftle. ACANTHUS, from axai/Ba, a thorn. It is alfo called branca urffna, acanthus fativus vel mollis Virgilii, carduus acanthus, marmolaria. Bear’s breech, or brank. ursine. Miller mentions five fpecies. It is a native of the foulhern parts of Europe, cultivated in our gardens, flowers in June and July, and is perennial. The roots are very mucilaginous, and the leaves are fo in a lefler degree. This mucilage is infipid, foftening, and a good fubftitute for the marfh-mallow. The herb-women too often fell the leases of hellebo- rafter, or bear’s foot, or fphondylium, or cow’s parfnep, for the bear’s breech. The common bear’s breech is the acanthus mollis fa¬ tivus, foliis finuatis inermibus of Linnaeus. AC ANUS THEOPHRASTI, a fpecies of thiftle. ACAPATLI, Long pepper. ACAPNON, axairvov i. e. fampfuchum, or marjoram. See Origanum. ACARUS, a fmall infe£I which is faid to breed in wax; alfo an infeCt in the Ikin like a loufe. Vide Phthiri- ASIS. ACARNA THEOPHRASTI, the fish-thistle ; alfo a fea-filh. ACARON, the wild myrtle. ACARTUM, Red-lead. ACATALIS, a juniper-berry. ACATAPOSIS, incapability of fwallowing. See De- GLUTITIO. AC ATER A, the larger or black juniper. ACATHARSIA, from a, non, and xaSaipa, to purge. That impurity in a difeafed body which is not yet purged off. ACAULIS, or Acaulos, of a, negative, and xauM;t caulls, a ffalk or ffcm. A plant is faid to be acaulis, or without a ftalk, whofe flower refts on the ground, as in the carline thiftle. And Cafper Bauhine calls the carline thiftle, acaulos magno flore. ACAZDIR, Tin. ACATEM, or Accatum. See Aurichalcum. ACCELERATORES URIN^E. Called alfo urine ffimulatores. They haften the ejection of the urine. The accelerator urinee arifes flefhy from the fphin&er ani, and fuperior part of the urethra, and tendinous from the ifchium. It is inferted into the corpus cavernofum, from near their beginning to a little below their union. Douglas. Dr. Hunter obferves, that the acceleratores urince are fixed to, and furround the bulbous part of the urethra, meeting in a middle line or tendon, at its external pofterior part. They are blended at the end of the bulbous part of the urethra, writh the other mufcles of the part; when thefe mufcles are put into aCtion, they contract upon the ure¬ thra, thereby making it narrower and expelling the laft drops of urine. The femen alfo meets with a frelh pro- pullion from thefe mufcles contracting upon it, when it is in the bulbous part of the urethra, which it is, and no farther, in the firft conatus, and by being in this large cavi¬ ty, would get no farther, was it not for their aCtion ; fo that they are truly accelerators of the femen as well as of the urine ; and this feems the chief reafon of the bul¬ bous part of the urethra, or its being larger in one part than another, that the femen and urine might meet with a refervoir in their paflage, which had a frefh contracting force or power, to forward their expulfion. ACCESSIO, Accession. The beginning of the pa- roxyfm of an intermittent fever, See. ACCESSORII, Nervorum oftavum Par. ACCESSORIUS. The name which Willis hath given to forne branches from the eighth pair of nerves. They arife by feveral filaments from both fides of the medulla fpinalis of the neck. Having advanced to the firft verte¬ bra, each is fixed to the back fide of the ganglion of the nervus fuboccipitalis, or tenth pair ; then again run up¬ wards into the cranium by the great occipital hole, com¬ municate with the ninth and tenth, return out of the cra¬ nium, and in their paflage join the eighth pair ; after¬ wards turning backward, and perforating the mufculus fterno-maftoidaeus, it terminates in the trapezius, having firft fent fome branches to the rhomboides. ACCESSORIUS [mufculus), i. e. Flexor longus pedis. Vide Flexor digitorum accessorius. ACCESSORIUS SACROLUMBARIS, vel Lumba- lis. See Sacro Lumbaris [Accefforius.) ACCIB. Lead. ACCIDENS. A symptom. ACCIPITRINA, fee Hieracium, hawkweed ; and Sophia. ACCLIVIS,$