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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    Apoplexia, Attonitus,Stupor,Sidera- ception of Blood and Animal Spi-|tio, and Morbus attonitus ; is a pro- rits, or a Medium betwixt anApo-|found Sleep, wherein the Patient plexy and Palfie, or a Species of| being vehemently fhaken, pull’d and ‘the Apoplexy, attended by an In-|prick’d, yet perceives nothing, nor terception of the Speech, ‘and a to-| affords any Sign of a&ion ; accom- tal Abolition of Senfe and Motion. | panied with a Difficulty of Refpira- Tis the fame with Catalepfis. | \tion for the moft part, and fome- Apollinaris. See Hyofcyamus. times with none at all, Snoaring no Apomeli, Oxymel, or a Decottion | otherwife than if they were faft ae of Honey and Vinegar. -. ° |fleep, with their Eye-lids fhut, or Aponeurofis, the End, Tail, orjat leaft contrafted ; but the Pulfe String of Mufcles: It is called alfojand Colour of the Face remains, a Tendon, Chyrurgeons take it}unlefs it be in aconfummated Apo- falfly for a Nerve. plexy ; in which, unlefs it changes Apoflegmatica. Sce Apophlegma-\into a Palfie, nothing but Death is Hjmuse we ot - ~ 1to be expeéted ; the Signs whereof A poflegmatifmus,Commanfum, fome|are, whea the Pulfe begins to flack- Phyficians call it in barbarous Lan-|en by degrees, and the Colour in guage, Mafticatorium; it isa Medi-jthe Face turns pale. It arifes fre- cine which being kept in the mouth,/quently from vifcous Blood, which and often alfo chewed, draws forth|obfiruéts the leaft Pores of the Pituitous Humours, which are void-| Brain, or from Blood Extravafated ed at the Mouth, made of the Roor|about the Batis of the Brain, which of baftard Pellitory, Salt, Holly, Ma-| oppreffes and ftraitens the Carotida] Stich, Wax, gsc. When it is ufed in| Arteries, or the Brain. | this folid Form, itis called Maflica-|~ Aporrbog, Vapours, and Sulphure- torium ¢ [tis ufed alfo in a Liquid |ous Effuviums which exhale through _ Forni, andvis of the Nature of a{the Pores of the Body, and other ‘Gargarifm, made up of Cephalicks,| breathing holes. ; ) ‘and attenuating Ingredients, boiled; Apefitia, a loathing of Meat. and prepared ; a Chaw or Maftica-| Apo(pafma, when the Unity of Or- tory, se eo Se 8 tgs | ganical compounded Parts is diffol- - Apophthora, an Abortion, or the|ved, and, thofe things which were Birth of a Fwtus before its due time. |Of-a different Nature, yet ‘naturally ' Apophyfis, Probole, Echphyfis, Pro-| compacted together; are disjoined ceffus, Productio, Projectura,'¢ Pro-|by the Rupture of thofe Ligaments, tuberantia , is a part of a Bone that|and little Fibrous Threads or Fila- is not*€ontiguous, as an Epiphyfis is,| ments which:held them together ; bat Continuous with the Bone, andjas when the Skin is feparated from firetchiog \it felf beyond a plainja Membrane, @ Membrane ‘from a Surface ; as the Precept Mufcle, ote Mufcle from another ; guides, Murmmiforeis; Styloides, &c. }and in fhort, any one part from ano- * ApopletticeVene,the Jugular Vein,} ther, which naturally adhered to it. which the Anoients fallly called the] © Apofceparnifmus, ‘a fort of a Fra¢ Soporales, or fleepy Vein. -' * ‘: |éture of the’ Skull, when fome part Apoplectica, Medicines againft an|is plainly elevated. “=. So | tf A paplexy:’ See) Se, Mae ee ee Se Apéoe Eby y aye Apolepfia, or Apolepfis, the Inter- o &