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
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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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    from the Afhes of Vegetables, as the] Spirit, which when fet on fire, burns; Salt of Wormwood, Tartar, ¢yc.| quite away, without leaving any’ The Metallick and Rocky Alcali,| Phlegm behind it. Itisan Arabian: becaufe Metals and Stones will fer-}| Wood. hs ment with, and be diffolved by A-| Alcol, the fame with alcohol. cids. Unto thefe fome add mix’d| Alcool, the fame that alcohol. alcali’s, as Nitre, Alom, all forts of} Alectorolophos, fee Crifta galli. Vitriols, ¢'c. : Alembicus, or Alembicum, vel Cae: Alcalijatio, is when for Inftance,| pitellum, vel Galea, a Chymical In-. Spirit of Wine is impregnated with| ftrument ufed in Diftilliag ; it has: fome alcali, fo that the Menflruum|the fhape of an Helmet, Concave: may become more difiolvent. within, and Convex without; and | _ Alce Alces, that is, Force andj towards the bottom is placed a Beck: Strength, from a Creature of ex-|or Nofe, about a Cubit long, by) ceffive Strength of that Name. which the Vapours defcend : If they’ _ Alcea Vervain, Mallow, tis reck.| be made without a Nofe, they are: ned amongft Emplaftick and Emol-| rather ufed in Circulatory Veffels. lient Medicines; and as it is like,| © Alephangine, or Alocphangine Pi- fo it agrees in Virtue with the Mal-| luda, they are compounded of Aloes, , jJow.. It is derived from ¢axi,|and feveral Spices. Strength, Vigour 5 becaufe it is} Alercum, a venemous Herb, See judged a moft powerful Remedy in| Aypofyamus. the Dyfenterie and Ruptures. Alexicacon, is an Aumlet, refift- Alcedo, a fort of Bird that breeds) ing Poifon. in the Sea. Alextpharmacum,a Medicine which Alchymia, or Alchemia, relates} expels Poifon, fo that it fhall not be chiefly to Tranfmutation of Metals,| burtful to the Body : They are moft for the reft 1s the fame with Chymia.| commonly fuch things as attenuate Alchimilla, Ladies Mantle, ’tis an} the Blood, that it cannot be coagu- excellent Wound-herb, ’tis Hot and | lated with Poifon in the Air ; as al! Dry, and Aftringent ; 1t ftops bleed-| manner of Volatiles refifting the Co- ing; the Leaves, the Tops, and the} agulation of the Acids. Antidotes Roots, are ufed in vulnerary Potions,|againft Poifon. Powders, Plafters and Ointments:| ~Alexipyreticum, and Alexipyretum, “Tis alfo call’d Pes Leonis, from its| and Antipyretum, the fame with an- round and broad Leaves, like the| tipyretum. Lions Paw. | Alexiterium,a Prefervative againft Alcibiadium and Alcibium, Vipers,| Poifon. Buglofs, fo called, becaufe Alcibizs firft found out the Vertue of it, for the biting of Vipers. Alcocalum, fee Cinara, Alcohol, the purer Subftance of any thing feparated from the impu-| fad troublefome Senfation, impref. rer, It fignifies alfo moft fubtil| fed upon the Brain from a fmart and refined Duft or Powder 5 and] vexatious Irrication of the Nerves. fometimes a moft highly rettified| Alhandat, fee Colocynthis. ‘ | | Alha- Sea-weed, | | ArSenddy, a certain Frattion of the Bones. : Algema, & Algematodes, Pain, a