Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, practice of physic, materia medica, chymistry, pharmacy, surgery, midwifery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine / selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors by Robert Hooper.

Robert Hooper

Date:: 1817

Credit: Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, practice of physic, materia medica, chymistry, pharmacy, surgery, midwifery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine / selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$chius uses it to express the private parts of a woman. Amphiueo*. (From *fj.$i, on both sides, and fun*, to divide.) Amplubxum Jbnphi- dium. Tfteos tineas, or mouth of the womb, which opens both ways, ^as bo called by the ancients. AMi'iuruAUTHnosis. Tlie same as am- phiarthrosis. Ampui.uerixa. (From */u$h about, and tifxtgu., a day.) An intermitting fever of the quotidian kind. AMpmMETHioN. (From a.(*Qt, about, and ,»?§*, the womb) Amplumetrium. The parts about the womb. Hippocrates. Amphiplex. (From ct/u<*>i, about, and nr\txla<, to connect.) According to Rufus Ephesius, the part situated between the scrotum and anus, and which is connected with tiie thighs. Ajii'iiippunu. (From *,u$i, about, und <wrj{Aa., :>reath.) A difficulty of breath- ing. Dyspnoea. Hippocrates. Amphipolos. (From *-f*<pi, about, and troKwai, to administer.) Amphipolus One who attends the bed of a sick person, and administers to him. Hippocrates. Amphismila. (From otu<pt, on both sides, and a/xtxn. an incision knife ) A dis- secting knife, with an edge on both sides. Galen. AMPULLA. (<jUbpxx*: from awn&tXMt, to swell out.) A bottle. 1. All beliied vessels are so called in chy- rnistry, as bolt-heads, receivers, cucurbits, £tc 2. In anatomy this term is applied by Scarpa to the dilated portions of the mem- branaceous semiciicuUir canala.just within the vestibulum of the ear. Ampollebcens. (Froifl ampulla, a bot- tle ) The most tumid part of Pecquet's duct is called ulveus ampullescens. Amputatio. (From ampulo, to cut off Ectome. A surgical Operation, winch con- sists in the removal ol a limb or viscus ; thus we say a leg, a finger, the penis, Stc. when cut off, are amputated ; but when speaking of a tumour, or excrescence, it is said to be dissected out or removed. Amuletlm. (Ffcni ajU/**, a bond; be- cause it was tied round the person's neck ; or rather from oLfxvva>, to defend. An amu- let, or charm ; by wearing which the per- son was supposed to be defended from the admission of all evil; in particular, an an- tidote against the plague. A.mchla. (From a_uigya>, to press out ) Amorge. A small herb, whose expr ssed juice is used in dying. Also the sediment of the olive, after the oil has been pressed from it; recomm-nded by Hippocrates and Galen as an application tvulcers, Aphtha (From */uwr]ct), to scratch.) Me- dicines that, by vellicatii.g- r seraicli ngasit were, the bronchia, stimulate it io the dis- charge of whatever is to be thrown off the lungs. Amtche. (From atuv<na<, to B< A superficial laceration or exulceration of ikin: a slight wound. Jfippocratea.— Scarification. Galen. Amyctica. (From */i«/c<r», to veliicate.) Medicines which stimulate and veil cu ■ skin, according to Calm* Aurelianus, AMYGDALA. (Afxvyf*.Aov, Iwinxftweu, to lancinates so called, because after the green husk is removed from the fruit, there appear upon the shell certain fissures, as it were Ucerations.) The almond. 1. The name of a genus ol plants in the Linnjean system. Class, Icosandrin. Order, Monugynia. The almond-tree. 2. 'ilie pharmacopoeial name of the com- mon almond, .lmygdalus communis o( Lin- nseus i—fottia serratia infimia glendulonis, Jtoribus sessilibus geminis. Tiie almond is a native of Barbary. The sam.;. tree produces either bitter or sweet. Sweet almonds are more in use as food than med cine ; but they are said to be difficult of digestion, unless extremely well com- minuted, Their medicinal qualities de- pend upon the oil which they contain in the farinaceous matter, and which they aff.rd on expression, nearly in proportion of half their weight. It is very similar to olive oil; perhaps rather purer, and is used for the same purposes. The oil thus obtained is more agreeable to the palate than most of the other expressed oiis, and is therefore preferred for inter- nal use, being generally employed with a view to obliuid acr.d juices, and to soften and relax the solids, in tickling coughs, hoarseness, cost.veiicss, nephritic pains, &c. externally it is applied against tension and rigidity of particular parts, I in milky solutions of almonds in watery li- quors, usually called emulsions, possess, in a certain degree, the emollient qualities of the oil, ai.d have this advantage ovi c pure oil, that they may be given m acute or inflammatory disorders, without danger of the ill effects which the oil might some, times produce by turning rancid. The officinal preparations of almonds, are the expressed oil and the emulsion ; to the latter, the addition of gum-arabic is some- times directed, which renders it a still more useful demulcent in catarrhal affections, stranguries, 8tc. Bitter almonds yield a large quantity of oil, perfectly similar to that obtained from sweet almonds; but the matter remaining after the expression of the oil, is more powerfully bitter than tlie almond in its en- tire state. Great part of the bitter matter dissolves by the assistance of heat, both in water and rectified spirit; and a part arises also with botti menstrua in distillation. Bit- ter almonds have been long known to be poisonous to various brute animals; and some authors have alleged that they are also deleterious to the human species j but the facts recorded upon this point appear to$

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