A PHYSICAL DICTIONARY, Expounding such words, as being terms of Art, or other| wise derived from the Greek and Latin, are dark to the English Reader. This Dictionary is of use in the reading of all other Books of this Nature, in the English Tongue. LONDON: Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil. 1655. A Physical Dictionary. A APophlegmatisms, Medicines drawing flegm out of the Head. Agaricktrochiscated, See the London Dispensatory in English. The use of "trochiscated" antedates the first OED citation of the verb (1657). Apozeme, A Medicine made of the Broth of di| vers Herbs, and other Ingredients; unto which somtimes certain Syrups are added. Animal Faculties, The Powers of Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, Feeling; of Ima| gination, Understanding, Memory, Will, Go| ing, Standing, and all Voluntary Motion. Aranea Tunica: The Cobweb-Coat, or Tu| nicle "Cobweb-Coat" not found in OED. Abdomen: The Belly, or Paunch Apoplectick Water: Good for the Apoplexy "Apoplectick Water" not found in OED. Autumn: Harvest, the Fall of the Leaf Actual Heat: is Heat that may be felt by the hand, such as is in Fire, and all things heated thereby; or in the Body of one in a Feaver: It is opposed to Potential Heat, viz. That cannot be felt by the Hand, as the Heat in pepper, in Mustard seed, in a Flint, in unsla| ked Lime: and the contrary of Actual Cold. "Actual Heat" and "Potential Heat" are not found in OED. Affected: Troubled, Diseased: An Affect, a Disease, Trouble, Disorder. Aquae Acidulae: The Spaw Waters, like those of Epsam, Barnet, and Tunbridg, with us. Absurdities: Unreasonable things Acrimony: Sharpness, such as in Mustard, Pep| per, and in divers Humors of the Body which cause sickness. Ascent: Going up. Apply: lay on. Actually Cold: see Actual Heat. Augment: Encrease. Accidentally: By hap, by chance, upon occasi| on. Adventitious: not Natural, but springing from external causes. Attracting: drawing together, or causing. Attracts: draws to. Accident: somthing that happens upon a Dis| ease; vide Symptome. Adstriction: binding together, shutting up. Antecedent Cause: foregoing Cause. is oppo| sed to the Conjunct Cause. Abundance of Flegm in the Body is the Antecedent Cause of the Optick Nerves being stopped by flegm; but the Flegm in the said Nerves, is the Con| juct Cause &c. of other Diseases. "Antecedent cause" not found in OED. Articulate Voyce: A distinct Voyce, such as that of Man-kind, termed Speech. Abstergent: Clensing away filth. Access: Addition, joyning to, help, or company. Afflux: flowing to. Astringents: Medicines that bind together, and straiten the Pores and Passages of the Body. Astriction: binding, knitting together. Anodines: Medicines which asswage pain. Anastomosis: an opening of the Mouths of Veins, by which means Blood issues. Astringe: bind, fasten, close. Acute: sharp, violent: a Disease is termed A| cute, when it quickly changeth to health or death. Adustion: burning: Adust, burned. Blood is said to be adust, when by reason of extraordi| nary heat, the thinner parts are evaporated, and the thicker remain dreggy and black, as if they were burnt. Asthmatical: troubled with shortness of breath. Attest: witness, declare. Aneurism: a Swelling caused by a dilatation of the Arteries external Coat, the internal being broken. Axungia: Grease. Atrophy: want of Nourishment, when the Bo| dy pines away. Attenuating Medicaments: are such as make thick Humors thin. Axiom, or Theoreme: an acknowledged, un| doubted Truth. Adjacent: lying neer, bordering upon. Aromatized: Spiced, perfumed. "Aromatized" antedates the earliest OED citation (1661). Anus, the Fundament. Astringe, to bind. Atomes: smal Moats hardly visible, and that cannot admit of any division. Adverse: contrary to, of a contrary Nature. Augment, is the time of a Disease, while it grows still more vehement, until it comes to its height, which is called the state of the Dis| ease, and then the Augment ceases, because the Disease is now at a stand, and encreaseth no more. Alteratives, are such Medicines as only change the qualities of the Body and its Humors, by heating, cooling, moistening, drying, &c. they are opposed to such as do cause Vomiting, Purging, Sweating, Transpiration, &c. Adjuncts of a Disease, are qualities, dispositions, and Symptomes annexed thereunto. Aliments, are what ever is taken into the Body to nourish the same; as all kinds of Meat and Drink. Adjuvant Causes, are such as serve and assist the principal Cause; so is the Taylors Boy an ad| juvant Cause assistant to his Master, the prin| cipal Cause of a Garment. So in Diseases, whatever assists the Primary Cause, is termed an Adjuvant Cause. Alexipharmical things, are such as resist Plague, Poyson, and all venemous Diseases. B BAlneum Mariae; the manner of stilling or digesting, when the Glass containing the Ingredient, stands in a Vessel of Water, with Fire made under it. Bolus: A Morsel; a Medicine to be taken from a Knifes point. Bellilucanae Thermae: Hot Baths in France, so called from the place where they are. Breathing of a Vein; Blood-letting, properly if but little Blood be taken away. Bronchia; the hollow gristly Pipes that spread themselves through the Body of the Lungs, be| ing Branches of the Wezand or Wind-pipe. "Bronchia" antedates the earliest OED citation (1675). C CAruncle; a little bit of Flesh that grows and sticks out on any part of the Body. Catarrh; a Defluxion or Distillation of Hu| mors from the Brain, into any part of the Bo| dy, especially the Lungs, causing Coughs. Condense, to make thick. Distillations by descent: are when the Liquor which comes from the Materials stilled, doth not rise up above the said Materials, as in or| dinary distillation; but falls down under the Materials stilled, which are therefore laid up| on a Grace, that the bottom of the Vessel may be empty, and free to receive the distilled Li| quor. E EXcrement: the Dregs of Digestion in the Body, voided by Dung, Urine, and Sweat. Evacuation: an emptying or voiding forth, purging. Epispastick: a Plaister to draw a Blister, called also a Vesicatory, or any strong drawing Plai| ster. Errhines: Medicinal Liquors to be snuft up the Nostrils to purge the Brain. Empyema: Empyems a corrupt matter between the breast and the lungs following a Pleurisie. Erysipelas Oedematosum: a tertian swelling a| rising from choller and flegm. Eliphantiasis: a leprous disease, which makes the Patients skin like the Hide of an Ele| phant. Electuary: See the London Dispensatory. Expulsion: driving forth; as of Excrements, Dung, Urine, Sweat, &c. Expel: to drive forth. Eruption: breaking forth. Extinguished: quenched, put out. Emunctuaries or Emunctoryes; certain waies and passages that Nature finds to drive ill Hu| mors into, from the Principal Parts; as cer| tain Kernels behind the Ears; and in the Groins, under the Arm-pits, &c. where risings happened in time of Pestilence &c. Essentially springing P. 11. that is primarily and principally, not accidentally or occasionally. Ebullition: boiling and working of the blood in the Veins, like New-wine in a Cask. Extension: stretching out. Extenuation: Leanness, Consumption of flesh. Extenuating making thin. Expulsive faculty: the power of our body which drives forth Dung, Urine, Sweat, Vapors &c. every part partakes of this Ability, or Faculty. Eminent: neer at hand approaching. Erysipelas: a swelling caused by choller. Ery| sipelas Phlegmonodes, or Phlegmon Erysipe| latodes. Is a swelling caused by Inflamation of Choller and Blood. Emulsions: Almond milkes; and milkes made of cool Seeds, &c. Electuaries. Medicines made up of Conserves of Flowers or Herbs; to which is added some sweet Spicy pouder for the most part, and so with Syrup it is made up in the form of Mi| thridate or Treacle. Epithemes: are Medicines applyed in Bags, com| monly upon the Heart or Stomach Liver or Spleen &c. Certain convenient pouders being put in a Bag, or between two cloths, and so wet in Wine or other convenient Liquor, are laid upon the Stomach, Heart, &c. Essential to the Disease: that is of the be| ing or substance, so that without that, the dis| ease could not be. So Heat is Essential to a Feaver. Excrements: dregs and refuse of our meat and drink after Concoction, voided by dung, Urine, Sweat, and invisibly through the Pores. Excrementitious: of or belonging to Excre| ments, impure, preternatural humors are so called. Extenuate: make thin. Expressed: Squeezed out. Epidemical: common to a whol Nation. So the Plague, small Pocks, Loosness, Sweating| sickness, &c. when they are rise all over a Na| tion; or Country at one time, they are called Epidemical diseases. Elixir Proprietatis. A Medicine invented by Paracelsus. Take of the best Aloes, Myrrh & Saffron, of each half an ounce: Pouder them and put them into a Glass. Then take Musca| dine made tart with Oyl of Sulphur, and pour upon the pouder, til the liquor stand four fingers above the pouder: Let them stand and digest in a warm place. Then pour off the Liquor and put on more, till all the Colour and vertue be drawn out from the pouder. At last still the settlings with a gentle fire, and pour that which comes away, to the former Liquor, and let all stand and digest a Month in a warm place, close stopped. The name signifies such a Quintessence, as hath a special propriety of agreement with Mans nature, whereby it comforts and restores the same, in al kind of weakness. Emollient: Medicines that soften. Eroded: eaten a sunder, eaten up. Extraction: pulling out. Exquisite: perfect, in an high degree. Escharoticks: see Causticks potential. Embrochated: moistened, bedewed, bathed. Erosion: fretting, eating. Eclegma. See Lambitive. Extream parts: the Armes and Legs. Emplastick diet: consists of such meats as are of a clammy substance, viz. Calves Head and Feet, Sheeps-trotters; all Feet of Beasts, Tripes, Gellys, &c. Excreta and Retenta: things voided out of the Body, things retained, or kept in. Eradicate, pluck up by the Roots. Exasperated: pained, vexed, molested. Equivocal: Signs of a Disease, are such as are common to it and other Diseases. The Efficient Cause: is the working or making Cause, so a Tailor is the Efficient of a Gar| ment; The Material Cause is the stuff, a thing is made of which the Efficient works upon; So the Cloth or Silk is the Material Cause of the Garment. The formal Cause, the shape that makes it a Coat, or Cloak, or Doublet; the Final Cause, is the end why it was made, viz. to hide nakedness, keep off Sun and Cold, and to adorn the body. Emulgent Veins: which bring the Wheyish Ex| crement of the blood unto the Kidneyes where it becomes Urine, and is passed by the Urecers into the Piss-bladder. Evaporation: a steeming out of Vapors. Egress: coming forth. Evaporated: steemed away, as Water that spends away in boiling. Evacuators: Medicines which empty out evil Humors, either by vomit, Purge, &c. Exhalations: Vapors drawn up by the Sun, out of the Earth and Waters. Eventilated: Fanned, purged as Corn by fan| ning. So Exercise is said to eventilate or fan the Body; because the motion opens the Pores, and drives many vapors out. Eneorema: that which hangs like a cloud in U| rines, especially when the Disease is breaking away. "Eneorema" not found in OED. Emollient Decoction: a softening moistening Decoction, made for Clysters to soften and moisten the hardened Excrements of the Guts. An Eschara, or Eschar; is the Core that falls off from a part that hath had a Caustick ap| plied thereto. F FUmigations: Perfumes and others things, burnt to qualifie the Air in a sick mans cham| ber. Fracture: breaking, as fracture of the Skul or Arm, &c. Fomentation: when linnen Cloaths or Spunges are dipped in some Liquor, and applied to the diseased part, and after renewed. Functions of the Brain: the Abilities of the Brain, to Hear, See, Imagine, Understand, Remember, &c. Frictions: Rubbings. Furor Uterinus: Hemorrhagies: breaking forth of Blood from any part of the Body. Hysterical Fits: Fits of the Mother, Womb| sickness. Hermetical Physitians, and Hermets: Chy| mists, such as trade with Furnaces, Pots, and Glasses, to draw Spirits, Oyls, Waters; to make Salts, Quintessences, &c. called so from Hermes Trismegistus, an old Egyptian Phy| losopher, who is thought to have been a Chy| mist. Horrors: Shiverings. I INfuse: that is, steep. Inflamation: great Heat. Indication: is an hinting to the Physitian what he is to do. So extream heat is said to give in| dication of cooling; extream fulness of blood gives indication of blood-letting; want of a womans Courses gives indication of blood-let| ting, &c. Jugular Veins: that is, the Throat Veins. See Veslingus Anatomy in English. Insensible Passages: which cannot be seen, nor felt, by reason of their smalness. Influence: flowing in. Inherent: sticking fast within, seated and abi| ding within. Inordinate: disorderly, unnatural, and unfit| ting. Internal and External Sences: The Internal are, Common Sence, Imagination, Under| standing, Memory: The External are, Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, Feeling. Intercepted: stopped in the middle way. Internally and Externally: inwardly and out| wardly. Juleps: pleasant Drinks made of distilled Wa| ters, or the broth of Barley, and other conve| nient things, and sweetened with Syrups or Su| gar; given chiefly in Feavers to cool and quench Thirst. Infusion: a strained Liquor wherein Medica| ments have been steeped, either hot or cold. Incrassate: thicken. Incrassating: thickening. Insensible: not to be perceived by the outward Sences, of Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, &c. Illumination: enlightening. Influx: flowing into. Inversion; turning the inside out. Intermission: ceasing, leaving off. Inveterate: old, of long continuance, rooted. Inclination: that is, by holding the vessel on the one side, and so powring the cleer from the set| lings: this is called to clarifie by Inclination, in opposition to clarifying with the white of an Eg by boyling, or any other way. The Iris: a party-color'd round Circle in the sight of the Eye like a Rainbow, from whence it hath its name. Incarnate: to breed flesh. Irritation: provocation, stirring up. Involuntary Tears: which are not shed by force of sorrow working upon the mind, but by force of a bodily Disease. The day of Indication: is that day in a Feaver on which may be collected what wil betide up| on the following Critical day. So the fourth day doth hint what is like to happen on the se| venth; and the eleventh hints what is like to happen upon the fourteenth; and the seven| teenth what will happen upon the twenty one; and the twenty four what will betide upon the twenty eight. Therefore the fourth, eleventh, seventeenth, twenty four, are called daies of Indication, or telling and declaring. "day of Indication" not found in OED. Judged, see Day of Judgment. Infirm: weak. Insipid: Tastless. Incising Medicaments; are such as cut and di| vide tough flegm, and other clammy humors, whereby they become fit for expulsion; such is Oxymel, &c. Intestines: the Guts. Intension and Remission: Increase and decrease, growing stronger or weaker. Injection: is a Medicinal Liquor cast with a fit| ting Instrument into the Womb, Bladder, or Fundament, when there is soreness of hemor| roids, &c. Inserted: fastened or planted into. Inspissate Juyce: is Juyce of some Herb boyled till it be thick, as Honey. Illustrated: made cleer and manifest. Invasions of the Gout: fits of the Gout, or of Agues, may be called Invasions of the said Dis| eases. Intense: vehement, strong. Indicate: declare, point out. Impacted: wedged in, thrust far in. Irrigations: moistenings, sprinklings, waterings. Intervention: coming between, happening toge| ther with. Intermediate: coming between. Intermitting Pulse: is that which holds up a while, and then beats again; and then stops, and then beats again, which is a sign of great weakness. Incoctibility: an unaptness to be concocted or digested, or an impossibility thereof. "Incoctibility" not found in OED, and not found in Google (17 July 2019). L LEnitive: a gentle, refreshing, cordial Medi| cine. Ligatures: or strings wherewith the Joynts of Bones and the Gristles are compact and bound together. Lozenges: the same with Tablets, being the form of a Medicine made up. Luxation: is when one Joyne is loosned from another. Liniment: Oyntment. Ligatures: bindings of several parts to draw the blood and Humors from the part diseased, to the parts bound, by reason of the pain of bind| ing which must be very hard and straight. Loosness of Continuitie: separating and dividing of things closed and united. So a wound is termed a loosening of Continuitie; because, it separates these parts of the skin and flesh which were formerly united together. Laxe: loose, slack, as an unbended Bowstring. Livid: black and blew. A Lambative or Lohoch: is a medicine to be lickt from a Liquoris stick, and to be swallowed softly down, being chiefly ordained for the Lungs. Iron-water: Water wherein Iron hath been quenched. Smiths forge-water. "iron-water" not found in OED. "forge-water" antedates earliest OED citation (1725). Laxative: which makes the belly loose. Livid: black and blew, Lead-coloured. M MEninges: or films of the Brain, coats that cover the brain. Masticatories: that is Medicines to be chewed to bring away Rheum. Mesenteraick Veins: little Veins that are thought to carry chyle from the stomach to the Li| ver. See Vestingus Anat. in English. Malignity: venemous or poysonful quality of certain humors and Diseases which make them very dangerous, and for the most part dead| ly. Matter, or Quittor: a snotty kind of filth which comes out of Imposthumes when they break, and out of Ulcers when they are in a good way of cure. Magistral Syrup: is such an one as is invented by a Physitian for his Patient, in opposition to those Syrups commonly kept in shops. Matrix: Womb. Membrana: skin or coat of the Arteries, Veins, &c. Membranes, skins or coats. Mortification: a deading of any part of the body. Malign: venemous, poysonful. See Maligni| ty. Mother: the Womb in Women is so called. Mitigation: abatement, lessening, growing mild. The Medium: is that through which we see, as principally the Air, which we look thorough upon objects; also the Water and Glass, Horn, or what ever is cleer, and may be seen thorough, may be termed a medium of sight. Mammilarie passages, or productions: certain little knobby bunchings out of the Nerves, which serve for smelling, resembling Teates, called therefore Teat-like productions. See the English Anatomy. Malax: soften. To Malax a lump of Pil| stuff, is to soften it, that it may work up into Pills the better. Mercurial Purges: Purges made of Quicksilver, Chymically prepared, such as Mercurius dul| cis, some kind of Precipitate, Mercurius vitæ, &c. Macerate: steep. Mesenterie: the skin which knits the Guts toge| ther, and runs all along among them, embossed with Fat. See Vestingus his Anatomy in Eng| lish. Membranous: of the Nature of Skin or Parch| ment. Morbifical, or Morbifick matter; is that which is the principal cause of any Disease. Minorative purgation: is gentle purgation, such as takes away only a part of the matter of a disease: it is opposed to Eradicative purgati| on, which is strong, and pulls the whol matter offending up by the Roots; as it were. N NUtrition: Nourishment. Narcotick medicines: stupefying medi| cines: that dull the sence of feeling, and cause profound sleep. Nitre: salt Peter, as some hold; but Matthio| lus conceives the true Nitre is rarely found in these daies. Natural functions: actions of the stomach, Li| ver, Spleen, Gal, Kidneyes, in concocting the meat, making blood, and separating and expel| ling the excrements. Nauseousness: sickness of the stomach enclining to vomit. Nidorous: smelling of burnt fat, or scortched Roast-meat, or fryed Oyl. Noxious: hurtful. Nausiosis of the Veins: is when the Veins are sick of bad blood, and doth as it were spew it out into the habit of the body: from whence comes scurvy-spots, morphew, scabs, &c. "Nausiosis" (a Latin form) not found in OED. Neotericks: are late writers in physick, or any other Art, so called in opposition to the Anti| ent Authors. O ORgans: peculiar parts of the body fitted for some notable service of the Spirit, such as the Eye to see, the Ear to hear, the Nose to smell, the Skin to feel, the Lungs to breath, Stomach to digest. Os Sacrum: the great bone whereon the Ridg bone resteth. Opisthotones: a Convulsion so named, when the Body is drawn backward. Oval forme: that is the shape of an Eg. Original: beginning, foundation. Oedema: a swelling caused by flegm, which is soft and whiteish, and has little heat or pain with it. Obstruction stopping. Opiate signifies an Electuary: properly it is put for Venice Treacle, Mithridate, Diascor| dium, &c. which have Opium in them: from whence the name is derived. But secondarily, it signifies any Electuary or Antidote made up in such a body as Treacle, &c. though it have no Opiate in it. Orifice: the whol which is made by a Surgeon when he lets blood. Also the mouth or pas| sage into the Womb, or Stomach, &c. Opticks: a Part of Natural Philosophy (though falsly reckoned for a branch of the Mathema| ticks) opening all the Mysteries of sight, and the reasons of the Deceptions, or mistakes thereof, and teaching to make augmenting Glasses, multiplying Glasses, Perspective Glas| ses, burning Glasses, &c. "augmenting Glasses" antedates the first OED citation (1658; "augmenting," adj., 1). Oblique: slantling, athwart, crooked, Obnoxious: liable, or subject unto. Ophthalmy: an Inflamation of the Eyes, cau| sing foreness and redness. Oscribosum: the bony Sieve. A bone full of small holes, like a Sieve or colendar, placed a| bove the Nose, through which Snot and Sni| vil, is drained from the brain. Occult: hidden, unknown. Oxycrate: Vineger and water mingled together. Organical Disease. See similar diseases. The Systole, or diastole of the Pulse: are the double motion thereof. For when the Arte| ry is extended by the blood, Issuing out of the Heart, and smites the Finger of him that feels the Pulse; that motion is called Dia| stole, or a widening and stretching of the Arte| rie: but when the Arterie falls, contracts it self, and sinks from under a Mans Finger, that motion is called Systole, a contraction. Oxyrrhodine: Vinegar of Roses, and Medicines made principally thereof. P PRognosis: the foreknowledg of Diseases. Plethora: a too great fulness of good blood in the body. Paralysis: the Palsie. Paraplegia: Parisis, Palsie. Peripneumonia: an Inflamation of the Lungs, or Lights. Pericranium: the skins which compasseth the Scul. A Pugil of Herbs viz. as much as is taken up be| tween the Thumb and the three fore-Fingers. Physical Regiment: is the right ordering of a Patient, having taken a Purge, or other strong Medicament. As to keep the Patient warm, to give posset or thin-broath after every stool; not suffer him to read, or her to Sow or hold down the head, or to be sad, or to sleep; espe| cially after a vomit, &c. Phrensie: rageing, Madness joyned with a Fea| ver. see Chap. 11. Book 1. Prognostick: foretelling. A Prognostick sign is a sign foretelling what will become of the Disease, and patient. Privation: loss. Plethorick: full of blood, too full of blood. Pores: little holes in the skin, through which vapors and sweat come out. Sometimes they are visible upon the Arm or Leg, being swelled and closed with cold; resembling a Goose skin for roughness. Preternaturally: otherwise then the Course of Nature requires. Perspicuous: cleer, that may be seen through, as Glass, fair-water, &c. Peritonæum: the inner coat of the Belly, which covers the Guts: See the English Anatomy. Poplar Oyntment: in the shops called Popule| on. See the English Dispensatory. Potential coldness: that is coldness in operati| on, though not to the feeling. So a draught of Whey in which cooling Herbs hath been boiled, being drunk down warm from the fire; is said to be actually hot, because it is so to the hand and palate; but Potentially cold, because it afterward cools the stomach, Liver, &c. Pulsation: beating of the Arteries, in any part of the Body. Precede: go before. Preparing of humors: is the qualifying of them, so as that they may be fit for expression which preparation consists in separating them from the mass of good blood: in making them thick, if they be too thin and sharp: in cutting them and making them thin, if they be too thick and clammy. Phlebotomy: blood-letting. Preternatural: beside the intent or custom of Nature. vide Preternaturally. Propriety: a pain by propriety, is when the cause of the Pain is in the part pained, so when the Head-ach comes from the Humors in the Head, it is called a pain by propriety; when it comes from Humors in the Stomach, or any other part that sends up vapors; it is called Head-ach by Consent. And the like may be said of other Symptoms or accidents. A Pyramis: is a Geometrical figure, broad and angular at the bottom, and growing less and less towards the top, till it come to a point. The Sepulchers of the Egyptian Kings were made in this form, and therefore called Pyramides. Naturalists do make use of this Figure to shew how the Eye receives the representations of visible objects. Pupil of the Eye: is the midlemost round circle, which we commonly call, the sight of the Eye, and which in Cats, is seen to widen and con| tract it self. Pulse: Beans, Pease, Hastivers, French-pease, &c. called so, because they are gathered by pulling, and not by mowing down, as corn. "Hastivers" (a kind of pease) not found in OED. Probable: likely, possible. Profound: deep. Producing: breeding, causing. Peccant Humor: the Humor offending, cau| sing the Disease. A Phlegmon: is an Inflamation or swelling cau| fed by blood. If no other Humor be adjoy| ned, it is a true Phlegmon. If choller be joy| ned, it is called a Phlegmon erisipelous; if flegm, ædematous; if melancholly, Scirrhous. Paroxysme: the fit of an Ague, of the Mother, or any Disease that comes by fits. Perforated: bored through. Putrid: rotten, filthy, stinking. Pustula: a pustle, push, or whelk. Ponderous: weighty. Peristaltickmotion of the Guts: is whereby the Guts do contract and purse themselves toge| ther above the excrements, and so squeez them out. Pomum curtipendulum: an Apple so called. Pubes: the hairy Hillock above the privities in men and women. The word signifies ripeness, because that hair being grown out, testifies the parties to be fit to engender. Pærineum: the space which runs like a ridge be| tween the privities and fundament in men and women. Praeposterous: unnaturall, undue, unfitting. Perturbation of the Eyes: a troubled, drousie, frighted look of the Eyes. Procatarctick Causes: primarie, first working and occasional Causes. So in a Feaver, the next immediate Cause, is putrefied choller &c. but the first working & occasional causes, were the patients taking cold, by swimming in the cold-water; whereby the pores became shut, and the Matter of the Disease was retained in the Body. So the Procatarctick Cause of worms in Children, is their greedy eating of Fruit; but the immediate Cause, is putrid humors occasioned by those Fruits; out of which humors the worms breed. Precipitated: thrown head-long, forcibly cast down. Palliative Cure: is when a Disease is not taken away, but only mitigated and made more mild, so that the patient may have as much ease as possible. Or if the Disease deform the Body, a palliative Cure, does hide as much as may be that deformity. So an Eye being thurst out, cannot be properly cured; but it may admit of a palliative cure, in asswaging the pain, and other Symptoms, and by putting in| to the place thereof a Glass or other Artifici| al Eye. Potent: powerful. Perspirable: the Body is said to be Perspirable, when the invisible Pores or holes in the skin, are kept open, so that the vapors arising from evil Humors may freely breath out. See Tran| spiration. Pernicious; deadly, causing death, & destructi| on. Protraction: is a lengthening out of a Disease and making the same to last long. Pharmaceutick Remedies: whatsoever kind of Medicines are made by the Apothecary. Præposterous: disorderly, undue, unfit, the Cart before the Horse. Quittor.: See Matter. R Repletion. over much fulness of blood, or Humors. Resolution, weakening or dissolving the strength of a part, as when it is palsyed &c. Revulsion: drawing back of blood or Humors from the part affected. Repelling: Medicines which draw back the hu| mor from the part affected, Repellers, the same. Relaxing: Slacking as the string of a bow when the bow is unbent, is said to be relaxed or slackned. To Revel: to draw back Humors from the part diseased. Remitted: lessened, abated. Restriction: exception, limitation. Ruption: breaking, or tearing asunder. Reliques remainders of an Humor after Solemn purging, bleeding &c. Retraction: drawing back. Radical moisture: the fundamental juice of the body, which nouri| shes and preserves the natural heat, as the oile in a lampe preserves and feeds the flame. Revelled: drawen back, Revulsives, remedies to draw back the Humor from the Diseased part. Repelled: driven away. Retentive faculty: the power in our body and its parts to hold fast its nutriment and what ever is agreeable thereunto. Rough Arterie or Aspera Arteria, is the wind| pipe or Wesand, which is rough on the out side with circles and gristly rings. Reduced brought back againe. Refractions: breaking of the Representations of visible objects. a terme used by the writers of Opticks, or the Art of seeing. Recruted: repaired, restored, made up, a mi| litary term. Resolving medicaments: are such as loosen and scatter evil humors which are gathered and combined together in some diseased part of the Body.