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. Each article, according to its importance, being considered in every relation to which its usefulness extends in the healing art / by G. Motherby.
- Motherby, G. (George), 1732-1793.
- Date:
- 1785
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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. Each article, according to its importance, being considered in every relation to which its usefulness extends in the healing art / by G. Motherby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ZSGONYCHON. Gromwell. So called from at'4, a goat, and-« hoof, becaufe of the hardnefs of the feed. AEGOPODIUM, i. e. angelica fylv. minor. yEGOPROSOPON. The fame as tegidion. AtGRITUDQ BOVINA. See Bovina Affectio. AEGYLOPS or AEgilops. A difeafe in the inward cor- ner of the eye ; fo called from a.i'£, a goat, and d»4, an eye, or goat’s eye ; becaufe, according to fome, goats are fubjeO to this difeafe. Paulus ASgineta calls it anchylops before it burfts, and agylops after. Avicenna calls it garab and algarab. An- chylops and agylops, are but difteient Hates of the dif- order called filtula lachrymalis, which fee. The agylops is the fiftula lachrymalis beginning to difcharge pus. It is either fcrophulous, atheromatous, or of the nature of a meliceris. Sometimes it is a fymptom of the lues venerea. Some- times it is with, and at others without inflammation. If it is attended with erofion, it terminates in a cancer. In opening this abfcefs, be careful not to cut the edge of the eye-lid, for thus you will caufe an incurable waterinefs there. When it is ftrumous, it proceeds from congeftion, and the tubercle is round without difcolouring the {kin. If it is caufed by fluxion, pain and rednefs appear, with in- flammation all over the eye. Sometimes it begins with a weeping, and is not fufpe&ed until a rednefs appears in the eye, and then by a gentle preffure on the part, a mat- ter is difcharged, a part of which refembles the white of an egg. If this matter makes its way into the nofe, it ac- quires a foetid frnell, and is difcharged through the nof- tril. As to the cure, if the cafe is recent, begin with a cau- tious ufe of bleeding and purging ; or if thefe are contra- indicated, give fuch alteratives as are moll efteemed in fcrophulous diforders. The tumor may be refolved by anodyne and difcutient applications; but if there is a ten- dency to a fuppuration, haflen it, and the difcharge of the pus with all convenient fpeed, left the bone underneath fhould be affected; the abfcefs cleanfed, heal it with the timft. of myrrh and aloes mixed with mel rofar. If the matter hath palled alfo under the ciiium, ufe a powerful deficcative, fuch as ftrong lime-water, affifted. by a com- prefs. If the periofteum under the tumor is laid bare, an ex- foliation mull be haftened by a cauftic, and a paffage open- ed into the nofe, after which dry lint alone may fuffice. Too conftridfting medicines may produce a rhyas, fee Rhoeas ; too digeftive applications may give rife to an encanthis. See Galen, Aetius, Celfus, Paulus ASgineta, A£Iua- rius, Sennertus, Wifeman, Heifter, Pott, Bell, Kirkland. iEGYLOPS & ACGILOPS. Names of the holme oak, with great acorns. Qjjercus JEgilops. Lin. In Venice the acorns of this tree are called Vallonia, the name of the city from whence they are brought. They ufe them there for tanning of leather, their diameter is in general about an inch and a half. iEGYLOPS, or ASgilops. The great wild oat grafs or drank. The roots are full of fmall fibres, feveral ftalks rife from a root, and are jointed. It grows in hedges and the fides of fields in May. By culture it becomes a fpecies of corn. In the northern parts of America it is improved to great advantage; and in the low wet boggy grounds in Great Britain, it would be profitable, perhaps, beyond any thing elfe, as it thrives beft in water. It grows like oats, but in quality is more of the rice kind. A decoftion of the roots kills worms. AEGYLOPS BROMOIDES, vel Feftuca Long. Arift. C. B. Bearded wild oats. Avena fatua. Lin. The leaves are fmall, long, and narrow ; it confifts chiefly of a few {lender ftalks, which terminate with oaten ears, but empty hulks, of a bright colour. Thefe have a long beard. iEGYLOPS NARBONENSIS, called alfo feftuca Italica, and gramen feftuca. Haver grafs. It is common in Sicily and fome parts of France. It runs up to about a foot high, having but few leaves, which refemble thofe of wheat or barley ; at the top of the ftalks are fmall ears, with hufks containing a feed like barley : thefe hulks alfo terminate with a long beard. n»3. iEGYPTIA MUSCHATA, i. e. Abelmofch. iEGYPTIACA, i. e. Papyrus. AEGYPTIACA BALS. i. e. Balf. Gilead. iEGYPTIACUM UNG. an ointment fo called from its being faid to be of an AEgyptian origin, though fome fay from its colour, but improbably. Mefue is its fup* pofed author. Unguent & Mel JEgyptiacum. R iErugo iEris fubtil. pulv. ^ v. mel Brit. ^ xiv. acet. acerim. ^ vii. coq fuper lent, ign.ad confift. ung. mollis. N. B. On keeping this ointment for fome time the thickeft part falls to the bottom, and the thinner, which floats on the top, is called mel JEgyptiacum. This thinner part is the mildeft, as the verdegrife in a great meafure falls with the more folid to the bottom. The principal ufe of this compofition is to deterge foul ulcers, keep down the fungous flefh, and to afiift in the cure of vene- real ulceration in the mouth and tonfils. AEGYPTION. The name of a topic ufed by the an- cients in uterine diiorders. The Greeks called the ol. ricini hlyrltt']tov ehcuov. AEGYPT1UM ANDROMACHIEMPL. AEGYPT1UM CROCEUM UNG. Both thefe are deferibed by Aetius. AEG YPTiUS PESSUS. A peffary deferibed by Paulus AEgineta : it is made of honey, turpentine, faffron, oil, verdegrife, &c. AEGYPTIUM PHARMACUM AD AURES. The name of one of Aetius’s compofitibns.- AEGYPTIA ULCERA, alfo called Syrian ulcers.- Aretaeus deferibes an ulcer of the tonfils and fauces by thefe names ; they are attended with a burning pain ; the matter difcharged from them infedfts the whole frame, and the patient is rendered miferable by its offenfive frnell. AEGYPTIA ANTIDOTUS, the Egyptian antidote. This is a name, not of one, but of feveral compofitions. AEICHRYSON, from du, always, and xpvoos, gold, a name of the fedum majus. AEIGLUCES, from du, always, and yhvxCc, /west. A fweet fort of wine is thus named. As foon as the mull is tunned, the veffel is placed under water, and there kept all the winter, that it may be cool, and not be completely turned into wine. AEIPATH1A. A paflion of long continuance. Blancard. AT EH ALES, from du, always, and to be green, a name of the fedum majus. AEIZOON, from dti, always, and £»«, life, a fpecies of the fempervivum, or fedum. AELIANUS MECCIUS, a phyfician who lived in the time of the emperor Adrian. He wrote well on the dif- feftion of the mufcles. AELIUS PROMOTUS, an Alexandrian phyfician, who lived in the time of Pompey. He wrote on poifons and deleterious drugs. AELUROPO (Syr.) is a fyrup made of the herb cats* foot, which is a fpecies of gnaphalium. AEMBELLAE, the lacca-tree. AENEA, an epithet given to the inftrument called a catheter, from the matter of which it was formed. AEOLIPYLAE, AEOLIPILES, 2EOLIPLES. They are inftruments rather belonging to natural philofophy than to medicine. They are hollow, and made of brafs or iron, with a fmall orifice. In this cavity is put water, which, when heated in the fire, it rarifies, and burfts out with a great noife, like a violent blaft of wind. AEON, A\civ, the whole age of a man. But Hippocra- tes ufes it to fignify the remains of a man’s life. It alfo fignifies the fpinal marrow. AEONION, i. e. fedum majus AEORA, from Jiupsu, to lift up, to fufpend on high. Geftation, a fpecies of exercife ufed by the ancients, and of which Aetius gives the following account. Geftation, while it exercifes the body, the body feems to be at reft. Of the motion there are feveral kinds. i ft, Swinging in a hammock, which, at the decline of a fever, is beneficial. 2dly, Being carried in a litter, in which the patient ei- ther fits or lies along. It is ufeful when the gout, ftone, and fuch other diforders attend, that do not admit of vio- lent motions. sdlr» H](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28406989_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
