Pierre Morel, The Expert Doctors Dispensatory (1657)

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Date
1657
Author
Lexicon title
Here follows an Expository Index of such Words as I was fain to use in the translating, for which our Language hath not so fit Expressions that are Intelligible as some might wish; so that to satisfie them that might think I strove to speak strange Words, as some Novices use, to shew themselves more then they are: I have given an Exposition to make every word that is innovated by Me (and somewhat more) Intelligible, if they have recourse to this Table, as they read and find words not facile to them
Book title
The Expert Doctors Dispensatory. The whole Art of Physick Restored to Practice. The Apothecaries Shop, and Chyrurgions Closet open'd; wherein all safe and honest practices are maintained, and dangerous mistakes discovered; and what out of subtilty for their own profits they have indeavoured to reserve to themselves, now at last impartially divulged and made common. Together with a strict survey of the Dispensatories of the most renowned Colledges of the World, which being corrected, are here epitomized, and drawn into an easie and usefull method for Practice. Containing, First, the Latine Names of all Simples and Compounds English'd ...
Publication place
London
Publisher
N. Brook
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
medicine
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: Chap. V. Of Pills. THey are so called of the Latines, in regard of the similitude they have with a ball, which with them is pila; but of the Greeks they are called Catapotia, because they are swallowed down whole. It is a solid form of medicine, round like a ball, made of powders, and sometimes gums, juices temper'd with some clammy liquor, chiefly prepared to purge withal, but sometimes also to alter and strengthen. (p. 167)
B. M. Balneo Mariæ, or a distilling by setting the Still in water boiling. (table after p. 471)
Alston
XVII.I.252
Wing
M2719