The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyruyrgical instruments and their use; are accurately described. Also, the names and virtues of medicinal plants, minerals, &c., and the method of chusing the best drugs; the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecaries art, and the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them / By Stephen Blancard.

  • Steven Blankaart
Date:
1708
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Credit: The physical dictionary. Wherein the terms of anatomy, the names and causes of diseases, chyruyrgical instruments and their use; are accurately described. Also, the names and virtues of medicinal plants, minerals, &c., and the method of chusing the best drugs; the terms of chymistry, and of the apothecaries art, and the various forms of medicines, and the ways of compounding them / By Stephen Blancard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    either in the Seed, Womb, or Ge- nital Parts of” both Sexes, . Agrefta, fee Omphaicum, Apria five Agvifolium, Holly ; the Berries are ufeful in Cholick, for they ‘purge grofs and pituitous Hu- mours by Stool, Ten or Twelve be- _jng taken at a time; the Prickles of the Leaves boiled in Poffet-drink, wonderfully eafe the Cholick, ‘and Pains i in the Bowels. , Agriacantha, a fort of wild Ear. dus. . Agvielea, wild Olive. Agrifolium, the Holly: tree with rickled Leaves, - Agrimonta, Aggremony, it clen- fes and ftrengthens the Blood, and Opens Obfiructions of the Liver ; : wherefore ’tis good in Dropfies, for an ill habit of Body, and the Jaun- dice ; the Leaves being infufed i iD ordinary Beer or Ale. Agrimonoides, a fort of Agrimony. Agriocardammum,’ a a fort of Water- Crefes. * Agriocaftanum, Earth-Nut, our Country People eat the Root raw, but when it is pild and boiled in is pleafant’ Food, ‘and very Nourifh- ing; it helps thofe that {pit Blood, and void a bloody Urine.’ . Agriscinara, wild Artichoke. Agriococcimelea, wild Prunes, Agricmelea, a so of nie i ces, * Agrion, fee Poucédanuit | Agriopaftinaca,Saxifrage of Candia. Agriophyllon, Peucedanum. © * Agvioviganum, wild Origanum. Aariofelinum, a fort of Crow-foot. Aprioftar?, a fort of wild Wheat. Agroftis, a fort of Grafs. Aprippa; one who is: pore bile his Beet a8 Vat i] ” Al People live without Sleep for a or frequent watching, or dreaming Slumber’; which proceeds from fome diforder in the Brain ; and is frequently ob- Agrypnocoma, diforderly Sleeping Agroftis, a fort of Grafs. Agynos, Agnus Caftus. Aigine, ‘the fame with Caprifolinw Aigipyrus Ononis. Argiros, the Poplar-tree. a Mountebank, ‘one who vends his’ Empyrical Receipts to the Rabble. Abenum, a Copper or Brafs Ket- tle, for boiling, ‘preparing and ‘di- It is alfo cale led Cucuma. Aipathia, or ipaia perpetual Patience. Aijthefis, or Senfe, is either Ex- ternal, as Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tafte ‘and Touch, unto which fome add, Hunger, Thirft and Venereal Appetite ; ; or Internal, as the Com- mon Senfory (as ‘tis afually called) the Fancy, the Eftimative Baculty, and the Memory ; but two of them willferve the tura, the Fancy, and the Memory. 4ifthefis, or Senfe, is a Reception whereby Motion from upon the flender Strings or Fibres of the Nerves, is communicated to Jeinning of the Medulla Oblongata in the Brain, by the Mediation or con- Aifteterium, the Common Senfo- ry; which Des Cartes places in the thic