A
PHYSICAL
Dictionary:
OR,
An Interpretation of such crabbed
Words and Terms of Arts, as are deriv'd
from the Greek or Latin, and used in Phy­
sick, Anatomy, Chirurgery, and Chymistry.
With a definition of most Diseases incident
to the Body of Man; and a description of 
the Marks and Characters used by Doctors
in their Receipts.

This Dictionary will be as useful and suffici­
ent to all our late English Practitioners in
Physics or Chirurgery (especially such as
are not Scholars) as any Dictionary of
Ten Shillings Price.

Approved by several Doctors, Surgeons and
Apothecaries: And Recommended by
them in an Epistle to all English Practitio­
ners in Physick and Chirurgery.

London. Printed by G. D. for John Garfield,
and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the 
Rolling-Press for Pictures, near the Royal
Exchange in Corn-hil, over against
Popes head-alley. 1657.








To all English Pra­
ctitioners in Phy­
sick, Anatomy, Chi­
rurgery, and Chy­
mistry.

HOw great the
necessity is,
of having a 
PHYSICALL
DICTIONARY for ex­
plaining hard Words



and terms of Art in the 
Medicinal Sciences
of Physick, Chyrur­
gery, and Chymistry,
such as are vers'd in
the understanding those
most useful, mysterious
and noble Arts, do
very well know: It is
intended for such Per­
sons as spend their 
time and employment
in studying Physick,
and are acquainted 
with no other than



their Mother tongue;
yet, many times more
readily Cure a Disease,
by their observant, dili­
gent, and strict keeping
to an approved Me­
dicine, than many o­
thers, that trust wholly
to their Art: There­
fore, for the help of
charitable and honest­
meaning People, this
Dictionary was Com­
piled, which hath in it
as much as is necessary



for understanding hard
Words in the fore­
mentioned Arts, be­
ing freed from that
troublesome and su­
perfluous Number of
unnecessary Words
which serve for no­
thing but to swell up
the Bulk and Price
of Books.

And thus much we
have thought fit,
(English Reader)
to say unto thee in



Commendation of this
best of Physical Dictio­
naries.

George Starky, Doctor of Physick.
George Thornley, Doctor of Physick.
Thomas Herbert, Student in Physick
and Astrologie.
John Rowland, Doctor of Physick.
John Hawkins, Chirurgion.
John Roane,  Chirurgion.
John Beach, Student in Physick
and Surgery.
Philip Frith, Student in Physick
and Astrology.
Ralph Woodall,  Chirurgion.
John Bryan, Student in Physick.
Anthony Rowe,  Chirurgion.
John North, Apothecary.
John Straw, Practitioner in Physick.
John Harvey, Apothecary.








THE
STATIONER
TO HIS
COUNTRY-MEN.

Kind Countrimen,

THe Explaining
the Art of
Physick, ha­
ving found so
welcome En­
tertainment, I hope for the like
friendly acceptance amongst you,
having preserved this Dictio­
nary for your Good, which o­



thers would have depriv'd you
of, wherein such difficult terms
as are deriv'd from the Greek or
Latin, and dark to the English
Reader, are made English; and
such Marks and Characters as
are used by Physitians and Apo­
thecaries in their Receipts ex­
plained; and for your ease and
better understanding, put down
the signification of their Weights
and Measures according to their
Characters: with a definition 
of most Diseases incident to the
body of man. And whereas
there are many Words in Mr.
Tomlinson's Translation of
Rhænodæus Dispensatory,
not understood by any ordinary



Scholars (much less such as are
not) I have caused them to be
explained by able persons, well
acquainted with the Practice
of Physick, so that the mean­
est Capacity, by making use
thereof, may rightly understand
whatever difficult expressions he
shall meet withal in the said
Dispensatory.

Your Friend, and Servant,

Joh. Garfield.






THE

EXPLANATION 

OF

Weights and Measures.




A Handful is written thus, M. 1.

Half an Handful thus, M. semi.

A little small Handful thus, P 1.

A Scruple thus, &scruple; 1.

Half a Scruple, 10 Grain or thus, &scruple;. semi.

A Drachm thus, &dram;. 1.

An Ounce thus, &ounce;. 1.

Half an Ounce, or half 
a Drachm thus, &ounce; semi. &dram; semi.

A Grain thus, Gra. 1.

A Drop thus, Gut. 1.

A Number of any
thing thus, Numb.1.&c.

Half of any thing thus, semi.

A Pound, or Pint thus, liber.



Twenty Grains, make a Scruple.

Three Scruples, make a Drachme.

Eight Drachms, make an Ounce.

Twelve Ounces, a Physical Pound.

Ana, is, of either of them so much.

P.æ. is, æqual parts, or parts alike.

S.a. secundum artem, according to art.

Q.s. so much as is sufficient.

Viz. that is to say.

℞. recipe, take.










A
PHYSICAL
Dictionary.


A

ABdomen, the Belly or 
Paunch.

Abeston, a stone found
in Arabia, of the co­
lour of Iron, which being once



set on fire can hardly be quench­
ed.

Ablegate, remove, turn out,
send forth, or out of the way.

Ablution, washing.

Abortion, miscarrying in Wo­
men, when the Child is born so
long before the time, that it's in
no capacity to live.

Abscescus, an Imposthume or
Botch.

Abscinded, cut off.

Absinthites, Wormwood-
Wine.

Abstergent, clensing forth,
scowring away filth.

Abstersive, clensing or wiping
away.

Absumed, taken away.

Acatia, a little Thorn grow­
ing in Egypt, out of the leaves
and fruit whereof they draw
a juyce or black liquor, which be­
ing dried is called Acatia, and is



very astrictive or binding; our
Apothecaries have seldom the
right Acatia, but instead thereof
use the juyce of Sloes.

Accended, burned.

Access, a fit of an Ague, Gout,
&c.

Accelerator, in plain English,
an hastener: Physically it is used
for the Muscle that opens the
passage of the Seed, and U­
rine.

Acerb, sowr, or sharp.

Acetum, Vinegar of Beer.

Acetaries, Sallets, or Herbs
mixed with Vinegar to stir up
appetite.

Acetum Vini, Vinegar of
Wine.

Acetum destillatum, Distilled
Vinegar.

Acetabula, see Cotylidones.

Achor vel tinea, or scald head,
is a Disease possessing the mus­



culous skin of the head, or hairy
scalp, and eating thereinto like a
Moth.

Accidents, something necessa­
rily accompanying a Disease,.

Acquires, obtains.

Acrimony, sharpness, or fret­
ing of any sharp or corrosive
water, or humour of the bo­
dy.

Aconite, a venemous herb ha­
ving a root like to a Scorpion,
shining within like Alabaster.

Acuminated, sharp pointed.

Acute, Diseases, such as are
sharp and violent, but of short
continuance.

Adamant, A pretious stone,
commonly called a Diamond,
brought from Arabia and Cy­
prus. Its the hardest of all stones
insomuch that it cutteth Glass,
and yieldeth neither to the ham­
mer nor fire, yet it may be



dissolved with warme Goats­
blood.

Adeps, fatness.

Adjacent, neer adjoyning.

Adjection, casting, or adding
to.

Adimpleates, fills up.

Adjuvant causes, such as are
subservient to the principal cau­
ses.

Adjument, help and relief.

Adjuncts, qualities, dispositi­
ons, and symptomes annexed to
a Disease.

Adjutorious, helpful.

Admixtion, mingling toge­
ther.

Adscitious, false, counterfeit.

Adulation, flattery.

Adust, the blood is then said
to be adust, when by reason of
extraordinary heat the thinner
parts are evaporated, and the
thicker remain black and dreggy.



Adustion, burning of the
blood.

Adulterate, corrupt, or coun­
terfeit.

Adventitious, not natural, but
proceeding from some Cause
existing without the proper
body.

Adstriction, binding, or shut­
ting up the pores of the skin.

Aegilops, fistula lacrymalis, a
tumor in the great corner of the
Eye, by the root of the Nose.

Æstuary, an hot-house, or
Stove.

Affectus animi affectionis, mo­
tions, or passions of the mind.

Affected, troubled, or distem­
pered.

Afflux, flowing to any parti­
cular part.

Agaric, a kind of Mushrom,
or Toad-stool, of great use in
Physick:  it grows upon the



Larch tree in Italy, and is white,
light, brittle, and spungeous; it
purgeth phlegm, and opens ob­
structions in the Liver.

Agitation, shaking any liquor
together in a glass.

Abenum, a brass skillet with a
cover.

Ablution, is exaltation, clen­
sing impure things by often in­
fusion reducing them to puri­
ty.

Albation, is the abstraction of
Dust, moths, gret, cleaving
to a thing, with a Hares foot,
feather, spather, or such like.

Albugo, is the white spot in
the Eye, called, pin and web.

Alacrity, chearfulness.

Alchimy, is an art dissolving
natural congealed substances, and
likewise congealed substances
dissolved for the more grateful,
wholsom, safe preparing of Me­



dicines for mans body, an art
which produces magisterial and
essential medicines from mixed
bodies.

Alkakengie, winter Cherries,
the red round berries whereof are
good against obstructions of the
Liver, the stone, and divers dis­
eases of the Kidnies and Blad­
der.

Alcolismus, is an operation
by calcination, ribellation, and
other means which reduceth a
matter into Allcool, the finest
pouder that is.

Alexipharmaca, Medicines to
resist the plague, and poyson.

Aliment, food, nourishment.

Aliotica, altering Medicines.

Alopecia, a falling off of the
hair.

Alumen, raw Allum.

Alumen combustum, burnt Al­
lum.



Aloes Zoccatrina, its brought
from India: the best is clear and
red like the liver:  its an excel­
lent medicine to purge choler,
and proper to be taken by them
that are troubled with the Em­
rods.

Allantois, the skin that holds
the Urine of the Child during
the time it abides in the womb.

Allauded, praised, commend­
ed.

Alteratives, medicines chang­
ing the humor and temper of
the body.

Amalgamation, is the putting
together, solution, or calcination
of familiar vessels by argentum
vivum.

Amaritude, bitterness.

Amaurosis Gutta serena, A
disease in the eyes, viz, when the
sight is gone, and no fault to be
seen.



Ammoniac, a gum like fran­
kincense, so called, because it
grows in Lybia where the Tem­
ple of Ammon stood:  Hence is
also a Salt so called found in Af­
frick, under the sand.

Amnios, the inner skin that
compasseth the Child round in
the womb.

Amputation, dismembring, or
cutting off the arm, leg, &c.

Amulet, any thing hang'd a­
bout the neck to preserve one
from inchantment.

Analeptica, restorative Medi­
cines.

Analogical, answerable in eve­
ry particular.

Anastomasis, an opening of the
mouths of the veins.

Anastomaticum, Medicine o­
pening obstructions.

Anatomy, is an artificial cutting
of the outward & inward parts.



Aneurism, a swelling caused by
the breaking the internal coat of
an Artery, the external being
whole.

Anfractures, turning and
winding.

Angina, a swelling in the
throat, which hinders breathing
and swallowing, and yet no de­
fect in the lungs or breasts.

Animosity, courage, stoutness.

Anodines, Medicines to as­
wage pain.

Anorexia, a loathing of meat
caus'd from abundance of crude
and raw humors.

Anthera, a Compound medi­
cine used for sore mouths.

Anthrax, a Carbuncle coming
from blood which is black, thick
and filthy, burning exceeding
hot.

Anthonies fire, the shingles.

Antidote, a Medicine against



poyson, or any medicine which
serves to amend any distemper
of the body.

Antimony, a Mineral, like to
Lead.

Antimonii vitrum, Glass of
Antimony or Stibium.

Antimonii Regulus, Antimo­
ny precipitate.

Antinomasia, a naming before,
or that of any sort which is most
excellent, as Barbary gold, Ori­
ent pearl, &c.

Anus, the fundament.

Apertion, opening.

Apophlegmatisms, Medicines
which draw Flegm from the
head.

Apoplexy, a deep sleep where­
in there is a total privation of
sense and motion, except brea­
thing.

Apostema Hepatis, the Apost­
hume of the Liver which comes



from a fall, bruise, or being too
strait laced.

Appellations, Names.

Apothects, an Apothecaries-
shop.

Apozem, a Drink made with
Water and divers herbs and spi­
ces, used in stead of a syrup.

Aprique place, where the
Sun shines.

Appropinquating, adjoyning,
bordering near, Neighbour­
hood.

Aptha, certain Ulcers bred in
the uppermost part of the
mouth.

Aqua fortis, strong Water
made of Copperas, Allum, and
salt-peter.

Aqua Regis, a Water which
divides Gold, made after the
manner of Aqua fortis, only ad­
ding sal Armoniack.

Aquatical, Which grows in



the Water.

Aranea tunica, the cobweb, coat,
or tunicle.

Arbuscle, a little shrub.

Arceates, drives away.

Ardent, burning, or heating.

Arid, dry.

Aromata, Spices and sweet-
smelling drugs, or perfumes.

Aromatical, smelling sweet
like spice.

Aromatized, spiced, or per­
fumed.

Aromatization, is an artificial
manner of preparation whereby
Medicaments are made more
sweet to the smell, and acceptable
to the taste, and more comfort­
able to the heart:  it is done by
spices commonly.

Arsenicum, Arsenick, many
wayes a good healer.

Arteries, proceed from the
heart are in a continual motion,



quicken the body, they carry
the vital blood to every part of
the body; their motion is that
which is called the Pulse:  you
may feel it at your Temples,
Wrist, Groin, &c.

Arthetical, Medicines proper
for the joynts; especially for the
heart.

Arthritis, is a pain in the
joynts which comes for the most
part by fits, stirred up by an in­
flux of humors into the said
joynts; but in plain terms the
Gout.

Arthritical, Gouty persons.

Arthrodia, is a Ligament,
which conjoyns the head of the
bone, which is of it's self little,
and that stands in shallow ca­
vity.

Articles, joynts.

Arundinaceous, resembling
reeds, or reedy.



Ascharides, Worms in the
arse-gut.

Ascites, is a swelling of the
belly caused of a serous matter,
sometimes from a swelling in the
teeth.

Assation, rosting.

Assumed, taken inwardly.

Asthma, shortnesse of brea­
thing, viz. when the breath is
hindred by the sympathy or
propriety of the part.

Astmatical, short breathed.

Astringent, Medicines that
bind or close up the pores of the
skin, or that bind the belly.

Astrictive, binding.

Atomes, Motes.

Atrophy, a Consumption.

Attenuating, or making thin.

Attracteth, draweth together,
or to its self.

Attraction, The drawing
quality of any thing, as



the Loadstone draweth Iron.

Attrition, rubbing or grind­
ing, a certain manner of prepa­
ration, like grinding on some
convenient stone with some hu­
midity, whereby Lapis Judaicus,
Collyrta, and the like, are prepar­
ed.

Augmentation of a Disease,
is, until it comes to its worst
state.

Austere, sour.

Auricles, the ears.

Auriculum, a Chalx that con­
tains gold, gold calcined to pou­
der.

Auripigmentum, Orpiment of
a deadly taste, yet used outward­
ly in medicines.

Axilla, the arm-pit.

Axungia, Hogs-grease.

Azure, an excellent blue co­
lour.




B

Balm, a pretious liquor or
juyce, otherwise called balsamum,
or opobalsamum:  It dropeth
by cutting out of a little low
Plant about a yard high, having
leaves like Rue, but whiter;
which plant groweth in Egypt,
and some places of the Holy-
land:  This juyce is somewhat
like oyl, but more clammy, and
inclining to a certain redness:  It
hath a strong smell, and no very
pleasant taste:  being dropt into
a vessel of Water, it will sink
down to the bottom like a round
pearl, and may be taken up a­
gain on the point of a knife:  its
excellent to take away a skar,
and many other purposes:  but
it's very dear, and hard to be
gotten.

Balneum Mariæ, a pot of seeth­



ing Water, whereinto is set a
vessel containing any fit matter
to be distill'd, or digested.

Balneum sulphureum, a Bath
which hath the vertues of brim­
stone.

Basilisk, a Cockatrice, the most
venemous Serpent that is; it kills
a man with its very sight (as
some say) but by its breath in­
fallibly:  it's about a foot long,
with a black and yellow skin, and
fiery red eyes.

Bdellion, Bdellium, the name
of a gum brought out of Arabia
and the Holy-land, of a sweet
smell, and bitter taste; its ver­
tues are to mollifie hard swel­
lings, and is good against stiff­
ness of sinews, or other parts,
and against the biting of vene­
mous beasts.

Bechichal, Confections, Me­
dicines, or Electuaries made for



the Cough.

Benedicta laxativa, a purging
Electuary.

Benign Medicaments, gentle,
harmless Medicines.

Benzwine, a sweet smelling
Gum of many signal vertues.

Brillus, a pretious stone cal­
led beryl.

Bezar, a stone of excellent
vertue against poyson, of the
bigness of an Acorn, dissolved it
may be in Water, it's taken out
of a Beast in India of the same
name, and is exceeding deer.

Biles, Tumours, or knots.

Bilious, Chollerick.

Bitumen, a kind of natural
Lime and Clay, clammy like
pitch; it grows in some Coun­
tries of Asia:  it's of a bright
clear purple colour, and of a
strong smell; the black is ac­
counted naught.  There is also a



liquid bitumen in Sicilly used in­
stead of lamp-oyl.

Blanching, is the separation
of the skins and hulls form di­
vers seeds and kernels, as Al­
monds, pease, barley, &c. and
it's done by steeping them in hot
Water, after which the hulls or
peels will slip off by rubbing
with your thumb.

Bolus, a morsel, or lump of a
soft Medicine to be swallowed
down.

Bolus armenus, Bole-armoni­
ack, is cordial, drying, healing,
and cooling.

Bonity, Goodness.

Borax venetiæ, Borax.

Breathing a vein, is blood­
letting properly, where but little
blood is taken away.

Bronchia, the hollow pipes
which are dispersed through the
substance of the Lungs, being



branches of the wind-pipe.

Bronchochele, the Rupture of
the throat, a great round swel­
ling in the throat.

Buccellation, is dividing into
gobbets, or by piece-meals.

Buglossum vinum, Wine made
of Bugloss.


C

Cacoethe, is a species of the
canker, and so poysonous, that
it continueth with one all his life
time, being by most held incur­
arble.

Cachechtial persons, such as are
bloat up with a moist windy hu­
mor, and have a pale ill colour
in their faces.

Cachectical, an evil habit of
body.

Cadmia nativa, a kind of mi­
neral.



Cadmia officinarum, Tutty.

Caducus morbus, the falling-
sickness.

Cæltaca, the Arteries of the
stomach, which accompany the
branches of the Gate-vein.

Calcanthum Vitriolum, Cop­
peras, or Vitriol.

Calcedonius, a pretious stone.

Calcination, a burning to ashes
by drying up of the native moi­
sture by reverberate ignition, by
putting them together with aqua
fortis, the spirit of salt, vitriol,
sulphur, &c.

Calamine, the oar of brass
much used among Chirurgi­
ons.

Calamites, rana viridis, a green
Frog.

Calefaction, is a certain way
of preparing Medicines, simple
or compound, by a moderate
heat of the Sun, fire, or horse­



dung.

Calefactive, heating.

Calefy, that maketh warm.

Caliginous, dim, dark sight­
ed.

Callous, hard, brawny.

Calx coma, is abstersive, dry­
ing, healing.

Calx viva, Quick lime used
chiefly in caustick Medicines.

Camphir, a strong smelling
juyce, or sap of a tree in India.

Cancer, is a hard tumor, rough
and unequal, round and unmove­
able, of an ash or liquid co­
lour.

Canina fames, Cynorexia, 
Dogs appetite, unnatural hun­
ger.

Cantharides, Spanish flies of a
golden colour.

Carabe, Amber.

Carbo, Carbunculus, a Plague­
sore, or Botch.



Carbunculus, Anthracites, A
Carbuncle stone coming out of
the Indies.

Cardamomum, a spice.

Cardiack passion, passions of
the heart.

Cardiaca, the median or liver-
vein.

Cardialgia, distempers, or
griefs of the heart.

Cardiacks, things proper to
the heart, or Cordials.

Cardiogmos, heart-burning.

Carenum mustum ad tertias co­
ctum, Must, or new Wine, boyld
till the third part remain.

Carminating Medicines, are
such as break wind.

Carnose, Fleshy.

Carpobalsamum, the fruit of
balsamum

Caryophillum, Cloves.

Carus, rottenness, or corrup­
tion of a Bone.



Caruncle, a bit of flesh grow­
ing out on any part of the bo­
dy.

Cassia flos, prepared Cassia of
excellent use in Physick, it being
as harmless and gentle a purge as
is.

Castigation, Correction,
chastisement.

Catagmaticks, Medicines to
consolidate, or knit together bro­
ken bones.

Catalepsis, numbness, or stiff­
ness, with which whosoever is
taken, he retains the same figure
of the parts of the body which
he had when he was taken, whe­
ther sitting, or lying.

Catapasms, sweet pouders.

Cataphora, a dead sleep.

Cataplasm, a pultise.

Catopotium pillula, a Pill, or



little ball.

Catharticks, purging Medi­
cines.

Catarrh, a flowing, or distil­
ling of humors from the brain
upon the Lungs, causing a
cough.

Catheter, an hollow instru­
ment to thrust into the yard
when the urine is stopt by stones
or gravel lying in the passage.

Catholicon, an universal Me­
dicine.

Catoche & Catalepsis, a strange
kind of disease, and seldom heard
of.

Cavity, hollowness.

Caulicles, little stalks.

Cavous, hollow.

Causos, ardens febris, continua
tertiana, a continual tertian, or
burning Fever.

Caustick, Medicines to burn
the skin, to make issues, &c.



Cautery actual, burning with
a red hot iron.

Celebrious, frequent, eminent.

Cementum, a mineral matter
like lute.

Cementation, is the softening
an hard thing till it be like soft
Wax before the fire.

Center, the point in a circum­
ference.

Cephalalgia, head-ach.

Cephalica, the head-vein

Cephalæa, capitis dolor diu­
turnus, a continual head-ach.

Cerates, Cerecloaths used a­
gainst Inflamations and vomit­
ings.

Cerasites, Wine made of
Cherries.

Cerebellum, or After-brain
in Greek parencephalis is as it
were a private and small brain
seated in the back and lower part
of the skull under the brain.



Cerotumor Ceratum, a plaister
made of oyl and wax.

Cerussa venetiæ, Venice ceruce,
it is healing, cooling, and dry­
ing:  White lead.

Cervicornula tenella, Harts­
horn.

Ceterach, Finger-fern, An
Herb that hath neither stalk,
flower, nor seed:  it's much used
in agues, against the black jaun­
dice, quartan agues, and stop­
ping of the spleen.

Chalibeate liquor, is such as
hath had steel quenched in it.

Chalisticum, a Medicine to
provoke heat.

Chermes, Granum tinctorum, 
Couchenil.

Chiragra, the gout in the fin­
gers.

Chlorosis, the green-sickness,
the Virgins Disease; the pale
colour of Virgins:  the White



jaundice.

Cholerica passio, a great pain
in the Belly with pricking and
shooting, and avoiding of chol­
er, both by vomit and stool.

Chologogon, purging choler.

Chondril, an Herb like Suc­
cory.

Chondrus, Cartilago, a gristle.

Chorton, the outward skin
which compasseth the Child in
the womb.

Chronical diseases, are diseases
which last a great while, as Con­
sumptions, &c.

Chrysocal, a kind of Mineral
found like sand in the veins of
some Metals.

Chylus, the food in the Sto­
mach, by the first digestion tur­
ned into a white cream, or
pap.

Chylosis, the hurt concoction
of the stomach.



Chyrurgery, an Art teaching
the cure of all the pains and in­
firmities of the body by the
right use of the hand.

Clyptica, Medicines to clense
and beautifie the skin.

Cicatrize, the scar at closing
up of a wound, or sore.

Cinefaction, a reducing unto
ashes.

Cinnamon, a sweet smelling
bark, very well known.

Cinaper, Vermilion.

Cinnabaris Indica, sanguis
Draconis, a liquid gum brought
our of India.

Cinneres ligni, ashes of wood
of which abundance of Medi­
cines of worth are made, both in
Physick and Chirurgery.

Circulation, a chymical ope­
ration wherein the matter to be
circulated is inclosed in a glasse
body, and a blind head being



luted on, and the glass placed in
horse-dung, as fast as the Spi­
rits or moisture ascend up into
the head, finding no vent, they
fall down from whence they
came, and this is called Circu­
lation because the vapor moves
round in the head of the glass.

Circumcinge, environ, en­
compass about, or round.

Circumduce, to carry about,
as the hand is carried about in
grinding upon a marble stone.

Circumforaneous, idle, wan­
dring, prating knaves

Circumvolution, turning a­
bout.

Circundated, encompassed.

Citta, Pica malacia, the affecti­
ons of a longing in Women with
child.

Citrine, yellow.

Civet, a sweet substance like
Musk, which yet is but the turd



of a little Beast like a Cat.

Clarification, purging of li­
quid medicaments from their
dregs and grosser matters, that
so they may be more acceptable
to the palat, and more easily di­
stributed.

Climacterical, every seventh
year of a mans life.

Clavicles, or Coller bones,
termed in Greek cleides, because
they shut up the whole chest.

Clement, gentle.

Clinica, a Woman Doctor.

Clitoris, is a sinewy part in the
Womb of a Woman.

Coacted, pent up, kept toge­
ther by force.

Coadunation, (sometimes ter­
med by the name of a more ex­
cellent species, Coagulation) is
a perfect and skilful working
whereby such things as disagree
are united.



Coagmentation, like to Glu­
tination, is by liquate things, to
which dissolving pouders are
cast, and afterwards are made
concrete by laying them in a cold
place, or by evaporating their
moisture.

Coagulum, the Rennet that
turneth milk.

Coagulated, curdled.

Coagulation, is the forcing
of things agreeing in nature
from a thin and fluid consistence
into a solid Mass by the privati­
on of moisture.

Coalition, the uniting, or heal­
ing up, or growing together of
the lips of a wound, or ulcer, or
any other part that should be o­
pen.

Coarctation, a streining or
pressing together.

Coruscateth, shineth.

Coction of humors, is their



separation from the mass of good
blood, and preparation for ex­
pulsion.

Cocted, digested.

Cognation, affinity, or like­
nesse.

Cohibit, That doth restrain.

Cohobation, when the distill'd
liquor is often poured on its
fæces and distill'd again.

Coincide, the falling in, or
hapening of divers things toge­
ther at once.

Coindicants, divers indicati­
ons or signes in a disease, shew­
ing, or pointing to one and the
the same remedy for the cure.

Colation, the sending of that
which is moist through a strain­
er, that the liquor may be had
separated from a dryer sub­
stance.

Colatorie, a streiner.

Colature, straining.



Colcothar, a good caustick
medicine; for it is of a cooling,
drying, healing, and clensing
quality.

Collyries, Medicines for the
eyes, particularly oyntments.

Collyrium, an eye-salve.

Collysion, a breaking, bruis­
ing, or knocking together.

Colon, the Gut that is the
seat of the disease called the chol­
lick.

Collick, so called from the
gut colon, which is the part affe­
cted, and is long, winding, and
ordained for receiving the ex­
crements of almost all the body:
the reteining these excrements
too long, cause this pain.

Colliquation, or colliquefacti­
on, is the joyning of many fusils
or liquables to make one com­
pound by eliquation on the
fire.



Collumella, Inflamation:  see
Uvula.

Collusions, filth, impurity.

Coloration, is whereby the
perfect colour of gold, silver,
Philosophers, and such-like ob­
scured by any sulphurous vapor
is renewed and made bright by
maceration, frequent ablution in
any sharp liquor or salt, argal,
spirit of wine-vinegar.

Coloquintida, a kind of gourd
which the Persians call gall of the
Earth, because it destroyes all
herbs near which it groweth;
it's a very dangerous purge, yet
frequently used.

Colourated, coloured.

Coma vigil, waking coma is a
disease in which the patient lyeth
with his eyes shut as if he were
asleep, when he is awake and di­
stracted.

Combustion, see cinefaction.



Combustible, is that which
will burn.

Comitialis morbus, epilepsia, 
the Falling sickness.

Comitate, accompany.

Commaculate, to defile, or
stick to the fingers.

Comminution, is the reducing
of any matter into such fine pou­
der by dilation, filteration, ex­
iccation, confusion, calcination,
cribration, that no roughness or
corpulency be felt.

Commissura, the mold of the
head where the parts of the skull
are united.

Commutation, change, alter­
ation.

Compact, close, solid, united
together.

Complexion, is the nature of
a part, hot, cold, or dry.

Complication of diseases, when
divers Diseases afflict the pati­



ent at one and the same time.

Composition, is the putting to­
gether of divers things.

Compression, a thrusting or
pressing any thing hard toge­
ther.

Concave, ulcers, hollow ul­
cers.

Conception, is from a mingling
of seeds in the womb, which is the
most noble nurse, gathering and
contracting it self exactly, that
it will not admit the point of a
needle, then the womb rouzeth
and raiseth up the sleepy and lur­
king power of the seeds, so that
that which was before but poten­
tial it bringeth into act.

Concertation, wrangling Dis­
putes.

Concinnated, made fit for the
purpose, trimmed, apparel­
led.

Conciliating, causing, perswa­



ding, procuring by fair means.

Concretion, is divaporation of
humidity in fluid things by
gentle decoction on fire.

Concocted, digested.

Concords, equalities.

Concrete juyces, juyces of
plants that were once liquid, but
for their better preservation are
hardened either in the Sun or by
the fire.

Condense, thick, hard.

Condiloma, a swelling of the
fundament.

Condiments, sawces.

Conditure, the art of preserv­
ing.

Confected, mingled.

Confirmed, A Disease is
said to be confirmed, when the
symptoms that distinguish it to
be of such or such a particular
disease do appear.

Confrication, rubbing or grin­



ding.

Confusion, is properly a mix­
ture of such things as are
fluid.

Congelation, benumning,
unsuitablenesse, a freezing toge­
ther with cold.

Congestion, a gathering toge­
ther, or heaping up.

Conglomerated, heaped toge­
ther.

Conglutination, is the com­
pacting of Metals, jewels, glasses,
&c. by gums, glue, whites of
eggs, and the like; the nature of
the conglutinated remaining:
a glewing together.

Conjugations, or pairs of
nerves.

Conjunctiva, a coat of the eye
so called, because it sticks fast to
the eye, and helps it in its place.

Conquash, mash together.

Consentaneous, agreeable con­



sonant.

Consistence, the thickness or
thinness of any substance or li­
quor.

Consolidation, closing up a
sore or wound.

Consopiated, lull'd asleep.

Consternation, fear, astonish­
ment.

Constipation, stopping up.

Constitution, the complexion
or temperament of the body.

Contagion, infection.

Continuity, an oneness, or one
continued quantity without in­
terruption.

Contorsion, a wresting or
drawing awry.

Contracted, shrunk or drawn
together.

Contraindicants, are such in­
dications as forbid such or such a
course to be used.

Contumacy, stubbornness, and



that will not be wrought upon by
the medicine.

Contunding, pounding, beat­
ing.

Contusion, bruising, a bruise,
also a beating of very thick bo­
dies into very subtil parts.

Conus, a geometrical figure
resembling a sugar-loaf.

Convex, standing out like the
back-side of a buckler or plat­
ter.

Convulsio, spasmus, a con­
vulsion or cramp.

Copal, white Rosin, very
bright.

Cophosis, is when the hearing
is totally gone, so that the pati­
ent either heareth no noyse, or
if he do, he cannot distinguish.

Copiously, plentifully.

Corda barbarorum, nervus, A
sinew.

Cordis palpitatio, panting, or



beating of the heart.

Coronal suture, the seam which
divides the skull of the head in
two parts.

Cornea, the coat of the eye of
a horny substance.

Corpulent, fat, thick, gross.

Corpus callosum, a thick body,
it is a part belongs to the brain.

Corpus varicosum, is an inter­
weaving of the veins and arte­
ries which carry the vital and na­
tural blood to the stones to make
Seed of.

Corpulent, fat, gross.

Corral, is cordial, cooling,
drying, and prepared chymical­
ly hath a wonderful comforting
vertue in it; yet the red corral
far exceeds it.

Corroding, biting and fret­
ting.

Corosion, is calcination, redu­
cing things coagulated by the



corroding spirits of salt, sulphur,
wine vinegar distill'd, aqua for­
tis, &c. into ashes.

Cortices, barks, peels, the out­
ward rind.

Corymbiferous, bearing ber­
ries.

Coriza or pose, is a catarrh fal­
ling from the brain into the
nose.

Cotylidones, in lattin acetabu­
la, the joyning of the ends of
two pair of veins, (one coming
from the spermatical, another
from the hypogastrical branch)
with the mouths of the umbilical
vein, making a connexion be­
tween the mother and the in­
fant.

Couched with a needle, that is,
something taken away with a
needle from the eye, or pressed
down.

Cranium, the brain.



Crasse, gross, thick, dull, hea­
vie.

Crassamen or crassamentum, 
Wine lees.

Crassitude, thickness or grosse­
ness.

Cremaster, is the muscle that
holds up the stones.

Cremor, the top or flower of
any liquor or cream of milk,
yeast, the juyce of steeped barley,
&c.

Cribration, sifting.

Crisis, the sign of natures vi­
ctory over the disease, whereby is
judged, Whether the disease will
prove deadly or dangerous to the
patient.

Critical day, is every seventh
day in Fevers, wherein appears
some remarkable or eminent ac­
cident, serving to shew, Whe­
ther Nature or the Disease be in
most probability to get the vi­



ctory, and these accidents are
either some swelling, evacuation,
bleeding, or other great change,
to the better or worse, whereby
the patient is judged in a condi­
tion hopeful or hopeless.

Crocus martis, saffron of iron,
good against all fluxes.

Crocus veneris, saffron of cop­
per or refined verdegrease, it ex­
pelleth, drieth, clenseth, and
healeth.

Chronick diseases, such as con­
tinue a long time.

Christalline, an humor in the eye
resembles a little cake of chrystal,
if you open a Calves eye care­
fully, you may take it out
whole.

Cruciate, to torment, afflict,
put to pain, to grieve, or vex.

Crucible, a Glasse wherein
things are burnt to prepare them
for beating to pouder.



Cubebs, A certain fruit sold
by Apothecaries like Pepper, it
comes out of India:  its hot and
dry, it comforts the brain and
quickens the spirits being chew­
ed in the mouth.

Crude, raw, undigested which
happens to the blood, or to the
meat in the stomach.

Cruent, bloody.

Cucupha, Caps quilted with
medicinal things, as dryed rose­
mary, &c.

Culins, stalks

Culinary, belonging to the
kitching.

Cumulation, congestion.

Cultellated, made sharp, edg­
ed.

Cultivate, to manure, till,
dress the earth, to improve or
better any soyl or grain.

Cupping glass, is a glass fa­
stened to the skin with lighted



tow, or flax, to draw blood, or
raise a blyster.

Cummin, one of the four
greater hot seeds:  its hot and
dry, good to break or dissolve
windiness in the body.

Cutchoneal, a Drug brought
from beyond Sea of great use in
Physick, it being an excellent
cordial.

Cuticle, scarf-skin, the first
containing or investing part
which runs upon the surface of
the skin.

Cydoniatum, conserve of quin­
ces called marmalade.

Cynorexia, appetitus caninus, 
a greediness and unnatural appe­
tite of meat.


D

Dandril, scales of the head,
beard, and eye-brows.



Daphnælion Oleum Laurinum, 
oyle of Bays.

Dation, the quantity or dosis
of any medicament that is admi­
nistred to the patient at once.

Dealbate, that maketh white.

Debility, a weak state of bo­
dy.

Declination, is that time of a
disease which follows that we call
the state, the going away of a
disease.

Decoctio Epythemi, the Deco­
ction of Dodder.

Decoction, the liquor or broth
wherein are boyled herbs and o­
ther simples to serve as the basis
or foundation of many medi­
cines.

Decorticated, stripped of their
skins, peels, or barks.

Deduce, draw to and fro.

Definitly, exactly, particular­
ly.



Defluxion, the flowing of hu­
mors to any particular part.

Deject, cast out.

Deleates, takes away.

Deletary, poysonous, destru­
ctive.

Deliquation, is the preparati­
of things melted on the fire.

Deliquium, is the liquation of
a concrete (as salt powder calci­
ned) set in a moist place.

Delirium, raving, and frenzy,
a talking idlely in sickness.

Demerged, plunged under wa­
ter.

Demoniack, one possest with
a devil.

Demonstrated, proved to the
sense beyond contradiction.

Denigrate, that maketh black.

Denominated, so called.

Dentifrice, such things where­
with the teeth are rubb'd to make
them white.



Depose, put off.

Depraved, wicked, vile,
base.

Depurges, draws forth.

Descention, is when the essen­
tial juyce dissolved from the
matter to be distill'd is brought
back and doth descend.

Despumation, a scumming or
taking off the froth.

Despumed, purged, clarifi­
ed.

Detersory, clensing.

Detriment, hurt or damage.

Deturpates, fouleth, defileth,
makes filthy.

Diabetes, a continual and un­
natural making of water, after
which there comes a violent
thirst, and consuming of the
whole body.

Diacatholicon, an Electuary
much used in Physick, so called
because it serves as a gentle



purge for all humors.

Diagnosticks, signs whereby is
known the disease which the pa­
tient hath.

Diagalanga, a confection of
hot spices, good against the wind
chollick and cold distempers of
the inward parts.

Diagridiates, medicines that
have scamonny or diagridium in
their composition.

Diagridium, Scammony is
the juyce of a forreign plant dri­
ed, its a most strong and violent
purge, being boyled in a Quince
it is in part corrected, which
when its thus prepared Apothe­
caries call diagridium.

Diamond, a well known jewel
or pretious stone.

Diapasm, medicinal pouders,
unguents or liniments used for
delicacy, and perfume.

Diapedisis, the sweating of



blood through the pores of the
veins.

Diaphœnicon, an electuary u­
sed by physitians to purge
phlegm and choler.

Diaphoreticks, medicines pro­
voking sweat.

Diapnætica, medicines that
bring a tumor to suppuration
that it breaks a sore.

Diaphragma, the midriff, a
skin that separateth the stomach
and breast from the belly.

Diaprunum, an electuary made
of Damask prunes and divers o­
ther simples, good to cool the
body in hot burning Fea­
vers.

Diarrhæa, a looseness of the
belly, by which the excrementi­
tious humors are sent forth with­
out blood or food, and with­
out the Ulceration of the In­
testines.



Diasena, a purging electuary,
good against quartan Agues, and
all other Diseases proceeding
from melancholly.

Diatraganth, a Confection of
Gum Traganth, and other sim­
ples, good against hot diseases of
the breast.

Diet, signifieth most com­
monly a diet drink.

Difflation, is when through
heat, spirits arising, and with a
kind of bellows blown in the ad­
verse Camæra, and there are
found congulated.

Diffoded, digged, as a hole or
ditch is digged in the earth.

Diffused, dispersed, scattered,
or spread.

Digestive medicines, are such
as prepare evil humors to be
purged out of the body.

Digestion, is simple matura­
tion, whereby things uncon­



cocted in artificial digestry heat
(as food by natural heat in the
stomach) is digested.

Dignotion, the searching out
of any kind of knowledge.

Dilacerat, to tear, to rend in
pieces.

Dilated, enlarged, made wi­
der, or opened.

Dilucidely, clearly, plainly.

Dilutely, shining bright.

Discuss, is to dissolve a swel­
ling insensibly by degrees with­
out breaking the skin, or causing
a sore, as many knavish Surgeons
do for their private gain.

Discussive, that disperseth,
dissolves, unlooseth.

Dislocation, putting out of
joynt.

Dispel, to thrust, drive, or
put away.

Disquisition, a search, or en­
quiry.



Dissentany, things disagree­
able.

Dissipated, diffused, or spread
abroad.

Dissect, to cut in pieces, to
open, to cleave in sunder.

Dissite, remote.

Dissoluble, in a possibility of
being dissolved.

Dissolution, is a preparation
of Medicine simple and com­
pounded by some convenient
moisture to a certain consi­
stence.

Dissolved, its used to be spo­
ken of dissolving hard knots,
kernels, or swelling by applica­
tion of outward medicines, and
internally by dispersing any co­
agulation, or gathering together
of humors by diet drinks.

Distemper, any excess of heat
or cold in the body of man.

Dissention, stretching.



Distillation, is a flowing down
of thin humors from the brain
into several parts; also a separa­
tion of things pure from things
impure.

Distillatio per descensum, is
when the liquor drawn from the
distilled materials falls down in­
to a vessel placed below that
which contains the matter, the
particular way and manner here­
of is to be sought in the books
of Chymists.

Distortion, writhen, or turned
from the natural place and situa­
tion in the body.

Distraction, is a disuniting of
divers things before uniting and
agreeing.

Diuturnity, long continuance
of time.

Diuretical, Medicines to pro­
voke urine.

Divaporation, is exhalation



by fire of vapour.

Diverting medicines, which
turn aside the course of the hu­
mor, so that it doth not run to
any particular part, which the
residence of that humor hath
made the seat of a disease.

Dolor aurium, pain in the ears
from cold winds; it happens to
many through a hot distemper
or inflamation, and sometimes
sharp and biting humors cause
pain in the ears.

Dolor nephriticus, stone in the
Kidneys, and pain in the Reins,
the vulgar call it stone-chollick,
because of the great affinity it
hath with the chollick.

Dose, the quantity of any
medicine usually prescribed to
be taken at one time, so much as
may safely be given at once.

Dolor ventriculi, is a sad and
troublesome sense in that part



from some things that gnaw and
stretch it till it break or be
wounded.

Dropax, is a topical medica­
ment, sometimes hard like a
salve, sometimes soft as a pul­
tise as the case requires:  its pro­
per use is in long tedious dis­
eases.

Dulciartes, sweetners, such
things as sweeten.

Dulcification, is the correcting
of mineral medicines by Ablu­
tions, &c.

Dulcity, sweetness.

Dulcoacid, sweet, and yet
sharp, as syrup of Lemons.

Dulco-amare, bitterish sweet.

Dulcorate, sweeten.

Duration, when things mol­
lified at the fire, are set in a cold
place, and harden.

Durity, hardness.

Disepulotica, an hard dry



scar, after the healing of an Ul­
cer.

Dyspepnia, ill concoction.

Dyspnæa, difficulty of brea­
thing.

Dysentery, an often and bloo­
dy loosness of the belly with
pain and torment depending up­
on the ulceration of the inte­
stines:  in plain English, The
bloody Flux.

Dysury, a scalding or stopping
of the urine, a painful pissing.


E

Ebullition, boyling or working
of the blood and humors in the
body like new Wine in a hogs­
head.

Eclegma, a Medicine or Con­
fection not to be eaten or chewed
but licked or sucked, and suffered
softly to melt down into the



Lights or Stomach, it is a liquid
Confection thicker than a syrup,
and thinner than an electuary.

Educed, brought forth, pres­
sed forth.

Eduction, a bringing forth.

Edible, that which may be
eaten.

Efferous, fierce, cruel, vio­
lent.

Efficacious, powerful.

Efficient cause, the working
or making cause, as the Apothe­
cary is the efficient cause of a
compound medicine; the mate­
rial cause is the Druggs, where­
of it is made; the formal cause is
that proper form given it, where­
by its distinguished to be a Pill,
a Potion, an Electuary; and
the final Cause is to procure
health.

Effigiated, formed or shap'd.

Effluxion, a flix of the seed.



Effoded, digged up.

Effrenate, unbridled, head­
strong.

Effuded, powred off.

Effringed, broken, ground
to powder.

Egritudes, griefs, sicknesses,
diseases, calamities.

Elaboration, a manual opera­
tion, an extracting of ignoble
matter from that which is more
excellent.

Elaterium, the juyce of wild
Cucumbers dryed, being taken
inwardly purgeth waterish hu­
mors, and is good against the
dropsie:  but it must be well cor­
rected or it will be extream pain­
ful in operation.

Election, is a chusing of sim­
ples according to time and sea­
son.

Electuary, a soft form of me­
dicine, made sometimes purging,



sometimes not.

Elephantiasis, a kind of white
scals or leprosie over the whole
body of the patient, making it
like the side of an elephant.

Elevation, is when subtil
things are forced from those
which are thick.

Elicite, make choice of.

Elixar, a quintessense or me­
dicinal liquor refined by distil­
lation to the highest purity and
exalted to its utmost degree of
vertue.

Elixation, gentle boyling by
a moderate heat.

Elution, the preparation of
common Bole by pulverization,
calcination, lotion, &c. as Tal­
cum, Crocus martis Terra lem­
nia.

Emanates, proceeds from.

Embrocated, moistened,
sprinckled, wash'd, or bathed.



Emends, cures, or takes away.

Emetos, or Emesia, vomiting,
a depraved motion of the sto­
mach.

Emetica, vomiting Medicines.

Emphrastica, medicines that
clog up the pores of the skin by
their clamminess.

Empirick, a Mountebank, or
Quacksalver, that administreth
Physick without any regard to
rule or art.

Emollient, softening or dissol­
ving oyntments.

Emollition, a softening by
sleeping.

Emollient herbs are four:  mal­
lows, marsh-mallows, black
violet, and bears breech.

Empasms, medicinal pouders
used to allay inflamations, and to
scarifie the extremity of the
skin.

Emplasters, are a Compositi­



on of several Simples for sever­
al diseases according to the Phy­
sitians discretion.

Emplaistick medicines, all such
kind of food which is of a clam­
my glutinous substance.

Empneumasis, Windiness in
the stomach.

Emprostotonos, A kind of
Cramp.

Empyema, corruption or quit­
tour lying between the Breast
and Lungs after a plurisie.

Empyici, are such as have an
imposthume or bladder broken
in the side of the Lungs.

Emulgent veins, those passages
whereby the wheyish excrements
of the bloud is conveyed through
the kidneys into the bladder.

Emulsions, the steeping or
dissolution by steeping of any
seeds or kernels in liquor till it
come to the thickness of a jelly.



Emunctories, certain passages
whereby nature clenseth the bo­
dy from many hurtful peccant
humors, which are certain kernels
in the groins and under the arms
where risings most commonly
happen in pestilental and vene­
mous diseases.

Enecated, killed.

Eneorema, the clouds that hang
in distilled waters, or in urins,
especially when the Disease is
breaking away.

Energetical, very forcible and
strong.

Enchanthis, an immoderate
encrease and swelling of the car­
uncle or little flesh in the corner
of the eye coming from the a­
bundance of bloud in that
part.

Encomium, praise, commen­
dation.

Entrals, the bowels.



Euntiates, signifies.

Ephemera febris, a light Fever
that lasts but one day.

Ephractica, medicines open­
ing the pores of the skin.

Epicrasis, a leasurely eva­
cuation of evil humors.

Epidemical diseases, are such
as are universally spread over a
whole Nation or Country, such
are the plague, small pox,
fluxes, sweating sicknesse,
&c.

Epidemia, the plague.

Epiglottis, is a gristle and a
cover of the cleft of the Larynx
made to fall upon it, when we
swallow, that nothing should
slip into the weason.

Epilepsia, the falling sickness
which is a convulsion of the
whole body, not continually, but
by fits, with an hinderance
both of the mind and senses.



Epiphora, involuntary weep­
ing.

Epispastick, blistering plai­
sters, or any other strong draw­
ing plaister; they are also cal­
led vesicatories.

Epithems, bags of dried herbs,
pouders, or spices; sometimes
moistened with rose-water, wine,
or vinegar:  sometimes applied
dry to the region of the sto­
mach, heart, liver, spleen, or
brain.

Epuloticks, pouders or other
medicines that dry up ulcers and
sores.

Eradicate, plucked up by the
roots.

Eraded, scraped off, or raked
away.

Erector, in plain english, A
lifter up, physically the muscle
that makes the yard to stand.

Eroded, rusted, canker'd, or



eaten asunder.

Erumnies, griefs, miseries.

Errhins, sneezing medicines
to be snuft up into the head to
purge the brain.

Erugates, Takes away
wrinckles.

Eruption, a breaking or bur­
sting out.

Erysipelas, chollerick humors
or swellings.

Escheoticks, potential caute­
ries: see Cauteries.

Esculents, whatever things
may be eaten.

Essences, or chymical extracts, 
being the most refined and spiri­
tual part of any matter or sub­
stance.

Essential, accidents of a Dis­
ease, without which they could
not be said to be, as heat in a Fe­
ver, leanness in a Consumpti­
on, &c.



Eviscerate, to unbowel, or
draw out the bowels.

Euphorpium, a gum or tear of
a strange Plant growing on the
mount Atlas in Libia:  its yel­
low, clear, and brittle:  it's good
against palsies and shrinking of
sinews.

Exhalation, is when the spi­
rit of any matter, solid or in
pouder, is lifted up through
heat, and vanisheth into the
air.

Evacuation, purging or dis­
charging the body of what is
dangerous or superfluous.

Evaporation, consumption by
steem caused by a gentle heat in
evaporations of liquors, the flat­
ter & broader your vessel is that
holds your liquor, the sooner
will the Operation be effe­
cted.

Eventilated, fanned, cooled,



or clensed by the wind, as musty
corn is made sweet by casting to
and again abroad in the air.

Euchima, good blood, or a
good habit of body.

Evocative, that calls forth,
or brings forth any offensive
matter, or humor.

Euphony, sound, pronuntia­
on.

Exacts, drives away.

Exanthemata, the small pox
are pustules, and the measles
spots which arise in the top of
the skin from the impurity of
the corrupt bloud sent thither by
force of nature.

Exaltation, a chymical pre­
paration whereby any thing is
brought to its highest vertue and
purity.

Exanimate, drive out the
life.

Exiceate, to make dry, or



dry up.

Exasperate, provoked to be
more painful, fell and angry
than before.

Excavated, hollow.

Excite, stir up, provokes.

Excrement, the dregs or resi­
dence of the nourishment of the
body voyded by dung, sweat,
and urine.

Excrementitious, that which
is mixed with any impure or un­
necessary excrementitious hu­
mor.

Excorticated, fleyed or piel­
ed.

Excreta, things voided out
of the body.

Exenterated, having the bow­
els plucked out.

Exestuate, destroy the heat
of any part.

Exhalation, vapors drawn by
the Sun upwards off the face of



the earth and waters.

Exhausted, drawn dry, spent.

Exhibited, given, admini­
stred.

Exhilerate, make chearful,
enlighten, revive.

Exiccation, drying.

Exigent, a streight or necessi­
ty, an eminent peril.

Exiguity, meanness, littleness,
smalness.

Eximious, excellent, eminent,
exceeding, admirable, great.

Exonerate, disburthen, dis­
charge.

Exotick, strange, forreign.

Expetible, desirable, wor­
thy to be wish'd for, or sought
after.

Expel, to drive forth.

Expectorate, to help an easie
spitting out of flegm.

Expressed, squeezed out.



Expletes, empties.

Expulsion, the driving forth
of excrements, dung, urine,
sweat, or any hurtful humor of­
fending the body.

Expurged, clensed.

Exquisite, perfectly per­
fect.

Extension, stretching forth.

Extenuation, leanness, a con­
sumption.

Extergeth, clenseth.

Extinct, dead, or put out like
a candle.

Extraction, pulling, or drawing
out.

Extranous, strange, forreign,
from without.

Extrinsecal, from without.

Extruct, build, set up.

Extrudes, drives out.

Exucce, without juyce.

Exulcerate, make sore.

Exuperant, over abounding,



exceeding.


F

Fabrick, the whole compo­
sition or frame of the body.

Fabrication, building.

Factitious, counterfeit.

Faculty of a medicine, is a cer­
tain cause or quality whereon its
proper action or vertue depends,
as the faculty of Aloes is to
purge.

Fæx vini, the lees of wine.

Fames Canina, Boulimia, dogs
appetite, when the appetite is
depraved or offendeth in quanti­
ty or quality:  in quantity when
nourishment is required in grea­
ter quantity than nature can bear,
and is called Boulimia : in quali­
ty when things are required
which are evil, or not food, and
is called Pica Citta.



Fartures, filling or cramming
as they fill puddings; whence
the word is borrowed.

Febris Catarrhalis, a Feaver
caused by distillation of Rheum
from the head.

Fæces, dregs, settlement in
the bottom of any liquor, dross,
&c.

Feculent, foul, drossy, dreg­
gy, fervid, very hot.

Fecund, fruitful.

Fedity. foulness.

Fenugreek, a Plant or Herb,
the seed whereof is much used in
Physick:  it's yellow, being hot
in the second degree, and hath
power to mollifie and dissolve.

Fermentation, a working of
the humors or any other liquor
as new drink works in a vate.

Ferulaceous, like the herb Fe­
rula.

Ferrumination, a soldering or



fastening together.

Fibres, similar parts, cold and
dry, engendered of the seed, and
therefore white, solid, and long,
like spun thread, appointed for
motion, and to hold the flesh of
the parts wherein they are toge­
gether.

Fictation, is the accustoming
of spiritual badness by fire, by
calcination gentle and continual
decoction.

Ficus, Marisca, sycon & syco­
sis, the Piles or Hemmorrhoids
in the fundament of a man.

Figuline, earthen vessels.

Filtration, a Chymical ope­
ration performed by letting the
liquor run through a brown pa­
per, or by laying a piece of cloth
list, with one end in the liquor,
and the other into an empty ves­
sel placed lower than the bottom
of that containing the liquor



whereby the clearest part will
run out of that above into that
below.

Fimus Equinus, Horse Dung
wherein chymists use to set their
medicaments to putrifie.

Fistick Nuts, outlandish Nuts
brought out of Syria, and other
hot Countries, not much unlike
a Hazel Nut:  They are very
good against stoppings of the li­
ver being steeped in sweet wine,
and for such as are afflicted with
shortness of breath:  they are
pleasant to the stomach.

Fistula, a hollow Ulcer like
a pipe running aslope into the
flesh, having a narrow mouth or
hole for the issuing forth of the
quittour, hard and insensible
round about the edge which
keeps it from healing.

Fixation, a fixing of bodies
so as to make them endure the



fire.

Flatuosity, windiness.

Flatulent, windy.

Flegmone, a general name for
all Imposthumes, which the a­
bundance of inflamed bloud pro­
duces.

Flos maris, Sperma cœti.

Flos lactis, cream.

Flos Rosarum, the yellow seed
within the Rose.

Flos Acris, Verdegrease the
rust of Copper:  it is a good a­
stringent deficeation, and cor­
roding medicine.

Fluent, running, apt to flow,
any thing that is liquid and will
run like water.

Fluid, apt to run and flow
like water.

Fluors, streams.

Fluvial water, River water.

Flux, the extraordinary flow­
ing of any humor to a particular



part, or the flux of excrements,
called, A scowring.

Fluxions, watry humors.

Fluxus Hepaticus, or flux of
the Liver:  it is that wherein fe­
rous and bloody humors (like
water wherein flesh hath been
washed) are voided.

Fœtor Oris, stinking of the
mouth through the putrefaction
of the Gums, or Teeth, or meat
sticking in the teeth.

Fomentation, the application
of spunges or cloths dipped in
some liquor, and so laid to the
part grieved, and so often re­
newed.

Forated, pricked full of holes.

Forceps, Tongs or Nippers
to take hold of any thing to be
plucked out of the ears, mouth,
womb, &c.

Formica Herpes, a corroding
Ulcer.



Formicans pulsus, a weak pulse
beating extreme thick;  and yet
so feebly, as its compared to the
creeping of a pismire, as the
name imports.

Fortified, strengthened, con­
firmed.

Fortuitous, that falls out by
chance, or at adventure.

Fossile, earth which is, or may
be digged up.

Fotus, a fomentation.

Fraction, breaking in pieces.

Fracture, breaking of a bone.

Fragile, brittle.

Friable, apt to crumble short
like paff-paste:  it's opposed to
clamminess, or sliminess.

Frication, a rubbing.

Friction, rubbing and chafing
a great while together.

Frixion, frying.

Frontals, certain forms of
medicaments to be applied to



the fore-head in distempers of
the head.

Frontal veins, fore-head
veins.

Fructical, bringing forth
stalks.

Frustaneous, in vain, fru­
strate.

Fugacius, apt to fly away.

Fulciments, props, stayes.

Fuligo Canini, foot of the
chimney.

Fulmination, a Metallical gra­
dation causing a sudden & bright
light.

Fumigations, any thing burnt
either to qualifie the air, or im­
mediatly applied to the body of
the patient, as for the pox, wo­
mens courses, &c.

Fundament, the arse hole.

Function, the office or pro­
per faculties of operation in any
part or member of the body.



Furfures capitis, the white dust
of a mans head.

Fusible, that may be mel­
ted.

Fusitive Art, Chymistry,
especially that part of it, that is
conversant in melting of Me­
tals.


G

Galangale, an herb so called:
the root whereof is hot and dry
in the third degree, and much
used in physick.

Galbanum, a gum or liquor
drawn forth of a plant in Syria,
called metopion, or as some say,
sagapene.

Gallia muschata, a sweet smel­
ling Confection of the Apothe­
caries so called.

Gallicus Morbus, the Crin­
komes, french pox, the foul



disease.

Gangrene, is a running and
creeping sore, that as far as it
runs mortifies the flesh, causing
it to rot; so that of necessity that
member wherein a Gangrene is
radicated, must be cut off.

Ganglium, a Wen or Gan­
glium, is a swelling sometimes
hard, sometimes soft, yet al­
wayes round, and useth to breed
in dry, hard, and nervous
parts.

Gargarisms, medicines to wash
and gargle in a sore mouth or
throat.

Gastrick, the stomach vein.

Generating, breeding, beget­
ing.

Generous, brave, noble, li­
beral.

Geniculated, kneed, or knob­
ed, or full of joynts.

Germinating, growing.



Gibbous, bunching out.

Glans, the top of the yard.

Glandules, kernels such as are
about the throat, and are called
the Almonds of the ears, also
the sweet-bread; and whatever
is like to these is said to be of a
Glandulous substance.

Glaucoma, so called from its
changing the chrystalline humor
into a fiery redness.

Glottis, or cleft of the Larynx,
is that body which maketh the
cleft or fissure in the Larynx,
which is the chief instrument
whereby the voice is formed and
uttered.

Glumosity, hulliness.

Glutinous, clammy, sticking
like glue.

Glutinatious, such things that
(like glue) are used to joyn
and close up broken bones,
veins, &c.



Glyster, an instrument used
to thrust up into the funda­
ment.

Gomphosis, is a joyning of a
bone, as a nail is joyned in a
board, and so the teeth are fasten­
ed in the jaws.

Gonagra, the Gout in the
knees.

Gonorrhæa, the running of the
reins.

Gracile, lean, slender, and
tender.

Gradation, is an exaltation of
Metals in the degree of affecti­
ons, where, by weight, colour,
and constancy, they are brought
to an excellent measure, but the
substance unchang'd.

Grains of Paradise, a little seed
brought out of Armenia, of a
strong sweet smell, and somwhat
sharp in taste:  it is hot and dry,
of a subtil substance, and often



used in Physick; for it warms
the outward parts, and is good
against the falling-sickness.

Granulation, proper to Me­
tals by infusion on fire; and
effusion into water is their com­
minution into Granula.

Gristle, is a similar part, cold
and dry, made out of the thickest
part of the seed, gathered toge­
ther by the power of heat, and
ordained to secure the variety of
motions, and as a bulwark a­
gainst any outward violence.

Guaiacum, a wood called by
some Lignum vitæ:  it's a pecu­
liar remedy for the pox.

Gula, the throat.

Gum Animi, Indian Amber.

Gum Arabick, a kind of white
clear Gum, growing on a thorn
tree called Acacia in Arabia.

Gurgulio, the gullet.

Gust, the taste.



Gustative, tasting, or that
which is tastable.

Gutta Rosacea, is a preterna­
tural redness which possesseth the
nose and cheeks, and oft-times
all the face besides.

Guttural tumors, swellings in
the throat.

Gynglimos, is a joyning of a
bone when the same bone receiv­
eth another, and is received by
another.


H

Habit of body, the Constituti­
on or temperament thereof.

Hæsitation, sticking, stagger­
ing, or doubting.

Hæmoplois, or Hæmoplosis, 
spetting of blood, which comes
from the vital parts, as the
Breast, Lungs, and rough Ar­
tery.



Hæmorragia, bleeding at the
nose, or any other part; a sym­
ptome in the excrements of those
things which are wholly against
nature.

Hæmorrois, sanguinis proflu­
vium per venas ani, the bleeding
of the Hemorrhoids, or Piles.

Hæmorrhoides verucales, the
Piles.

Hæmorrhoides nasi, an ulcer­
ation of the nose.

Halituous, thin, breathy.

Harmonia, is the juncture of a
bone by a line.

Hectica, a wasting, or con­
suming Fever.

Heloticum, a medicine draw­
ing the humors downwards, op­
posed to a repelling medicine.

Hemicrania, or Hemicræne, a
kind of Head-ach, when but
one side of the Head is griev­
ed.



Hemiplegia, the palsie posses­
sing one side.

Hepatis oppilatio, a stoppage
in the Liver.

Hepatica, the liver vein, things
proper to the liver.

Hepatrical, of, or belonging
to the liver.

Hepaticus, one diseased in the
liver.

Hepsema, sodden new wine.

Herculeus Morbus, the falling
Evil.

Hereditary diseases, such as are
deriv'd from the Parents to the
Children.

Hermaphrodite, one that is
both man and woman.

Hermetical, after the Chymi­
cal or Paracelsian way; that tribe
being so called from Hermes
Trismegistus.

Hernia Humeralis, tumors
in the Testicles, and Scrotum.



Hernia Ramex, a Rupture.

Herpes, a Carroding Ulcer
called the Wolf in a Womans
Breast.

Heterogeneal, of divers sorts
or kinds, of divers and contrary
natures.

Hippocras bag, is a bag made
of white cotton like a sugar loaf
pointed at bottom.

Hiræ Picræ, certain extreme
bitter purging pouders.

Hispid, rough with thorns.

Holy fire, sacer Ignis, a red
inflamation called St. Anthonies
fire, (being the disease that St.
used to heal) or the Rose.

Homogeneal, all of one sort or
kind.

Homogeneous, alike in all its
parts:  of one and the same sub­
stance.

Hordei Cremor Ptisana, barley
husked and sodden in water.



Horrors, shakings and trembl­
ings.

Hortensian, Herbs which grew
in the garden.

Humectation, moistening.

Humectative, the same.

Humeralis vena, the shoulder
vein.

Humidity, humor or moi­
sture.

Hydræleum, a medicine made
of Oyl and Water beaten toge­
ther.

Hydrocephalus, a Dropsie of
the head by a waterish humor,
and is a disease almost peculiar
to infants newly born.

Hydrogogon, Purges for wa­
try humors.

Hydromel, a Drink made of
Honey and Water, called Mead
or Metheglin.

Hydrophobus à rabido Cane
morsus, one that is bitten of a



mad Dog.  He that is afraid of
water.

Hymen, a slender membrane
about the neck of the womb.

Hydra, a monstrous Serpent
in the lake Lerna, which having
divers heads, as fast as any one
was cut off, two rose up in its
stead.

Hydragogus, drawing water.

Hypercathartica, most violent
purges:  too purging.

Hypocaust, a Stove or Hot­
house to sweat in.

Hypochondria, the region of
the body beneath the ribs.

Hypoglottion, medicines so
called, because they are to lie un­
der the tongue and melt.

Hypogion, or mater under the
Cornea, a great inflamation of
the eyes with swellings.

Hysteta, uterus, loci Matrix, 
the Mother in Women, Matrix



or Womb.

Hysteralgia, pain in the Belly
or Womb.

Hysterica passio, Fits of the
Mother:  Diseases of the
Womb.


I

Jacinth, the name of a preti­
ous stone, of a light violet co­
lour.

Jasper stone, a pretious stone
so called.

Jaundice, is a yellow Color
coming of the whole body,
spread over all the skin.

Idiopathica, the obstruction of
breathing by propriety comes
from the Lungs distempered,
and therefore every disease of the
Lungs hurts their action, which
diseases are either in the substance
of the Lungs, or in the vessels



thereof.

Ignition, burning, fiery hot.

Ignave, cowardly, sluggish.

Ignavy, dulness.

Illiac passion, a griping in the
uppermost small guts, a miser­
able disease, and commonly
deadly.

Illinetus, Eclegma, a medi­
cine which is licked up and not
swallowed.

Illiquation, is the mingling of
earthy bodies with mettalline
so as both retain their own sub­
stance.

Illited, annointed.

Illumination, enlightening.

Imbecil, weak, without
strength.

Imbibition, a philosophical ope­
ration is ablution, when liquor
adjoyned to a body is lifted up,
and finding no vent, falls back
& wasteth it with humectations.



Imbued, filled full of any li­
quor or vertue by soaking like a
spunge, or lying buried in such
things as we desire it should be
imbued withal.

Immature, unripe.

Immedicable, which cannot be
healed.

Immersion, to plunge or bury
any thing over head and ears in
any liquor or pouder.

Immutation, a changing, or
altering.

Impetigo, is properly a ring­
worm.

Impetiginous, itchy, scabby.

Impinguates, makes fat.

Implete, fill up.

Implicated, enfolded.

Improbation, disproving.

Inanition, emptiness of the
body.

Inappetency, want of appe­
tite.



Incalescence, heating, warm­
ing gently.

Incarnate, to breed flesh.

Incantation, charms, witch­
craft.

Incernicle, a sieve.

Incising medicaments, such as
cut tough flegm, as Oximel.

Incision, the cut or wound the
Surgeon makes with his Lancet
either in opening an imposthume,
letting blood, or the like.

Inclination, a pouring the
thin from the thick of any li­
quor from one vessel to ano­
ther.

Incongruous, disagreeable.

Incrassation, a thickening.

Increment, the encreasing of
a sickness.

Incrustated, covered over.

Incubus, the night Mare, the
Hagg

Indagation, searching out.



Indication, is some kind of
signes or symptoms appearing
in the sick patient whereby the
Physitian is hinted, or as it were
pointed with the finger to such
and such a course of Physick or
particular remedy, as abundance
of blood.

Indicate, declare, point at.

Indicates, bloud-letting, the
like doth the stopping of cour­
ses in Women.

Indigenous, home bred.

Indomitable, untameable, not
to be tamed.

Induration, hardening.

Inebriates, makes drunk, be­
sots.

Infarctures, stoppings.

Infirm, sick, weak, not
sound.

Inflamation, burning, heat,
and extreme redness.

Influence, flowing from a­



bove, or into.

Influx, flowing into.

Infunded, that is infused.

Infused, that is steeped.

Infusion, a strained liquor
wherein medicaments have been
steeped either hot or cold.

Ingrede, go into, or help to
make up a medicine.

Inherent, stick to, or within
that will not be separated.

Inhumation, is the setting of
two pots (the head of the upper
most being well luted and cover­
ed) with his bottom full of pin
holes fast in the ground, and co­
vering them with earth, having
a circular fire made for distilla­
tory transudation.

Integral, whole or entire.

Injection, a medicinal liquor
cast with a syringe or Clyster
pipe into the Womb, Funda­
ment, or Bladder.



Innoxiously, without harm or
danger.

Inoculate, is by cutting a
round hole in the bark of one
tree and a bud off another to set it
on the hole of the former with
clay.

Inodorous, without smell.

Inordinate, irregular, unruly,
masterless.

Inquination, defilement, cor­
ruption, pollution.

Insensible passages, are certain
passages in the body not perceiv­
able to sense by reason of their
smalness.

Insensible, not to be perceived
by the senses.

Inserted, engrafted, or joynted
into.

Instinct, a strong inclination,
impuls or secret prompting.

Insipid, tasteless.

Insolation, is a steeping or



infusion of any thing in liquor
and setting it in the Sun.

Inspersion, sprinckling up­
on.

Insoissate juyce, is the juyce of
some herb boyled to the thick­
ness of honey.

Intension and Remission, en­
crease and decrease.

Insuavity, unwholsomness or
stinking.

Insuave, unpleasant.

Integral, whole.

Intercept, stopped in the mid­
way.

Intercostales, the Muscles
which are woven between the
ribs, and fill up the distances be­
tween them.

Intermission, ceassing, leaving
off between whiles.

Internal, inward.

Intermediate, mediating be­
tween.



Intermitting pulse, is that
which the fit holds up a while,
and then beats again, which is a
sign of extreme sickness.

Intervention, coming be­
tween.

Intestinum Jejunum, the emp­
ty gut.

Intestinum cæcum, the blind
gut.

Intestinum rectum, the arse­
gut.

Intestinum duodenum, the gut
next the stomach.

Intestina Græcilia, the little
guts.

Intestina terræ, Lumbrici ter­
restes, earth-worms.

Intoxicate, to bewitch, to a­
maze, or extremely dull ones
spirit.

Introsumed, taken inwardly.

Invalidity, weakness, want of
strength.



Invasions of a disease, the re­
turn of the fit.

Inversio ventriculi, an inver­
sion of the stomach.

Investigate, search out.

Inveterate, grows old.

Involution, a wrapping up
one thing in another.

Irradiation, a shining upon.

Irrigation, a sprinkling of
moisture upon things that are to
be dissolved, that they may melt
more easily.

Irritated, provoked, stirred
to anger.

Ischbias, the Sciatica.

Ischuria, urinæ retentio, a stop­
page of the urine.

Jucundity, pleasantness.

Jugular veins, the throat
veins.

Jugulates, signifies to choak
or kill.

Juleps, pleasant cooling drinks



made most commonly of distill'd
waters and syrups, and given to
allay heat and quench thirst in
Fevers.

Jujubes, certain Plums of
Italy, sold here by Apothecaries,
some of them are white, others
red, round like an Olive, of a
sweet taste, having a small hard
stone:  if they be long kept they
grow dry, and dull of wrinkles:
they are of a temperate quality,
and are good against the cough,
roughness of the throat, and a­
gainst all exulcerations of the
kidneys and bladder; but of hard
digestion.


K

Katagmatica, medicines effe­
ctual in conjoyning broken
bones.




L

Lacca, a kind of red Gum
brought out of Arabia, and sold
here by Apothecaries, good a­
gainst diseases of the breast, and
comfortable to the liver.

Lac Virginis, Maiden milk:
see the preparation in the general
practice of Physick.

Lacrymæ, the tears of juyces
or gums that distill from trees
and plants of their own accord.

Lacteous, milky.

Lagopthalmus, or the stare­
eys; in this disease the patient
sleeps with his eyes open, be­
cause his eye-lids are so short
that it will not cover them.

Lambative, medicines to be
lick'd up, and swallowed down
softly; appropriated to the
Lungs.

Lapis Granutus, the Granate



stone; it is pretious in medi­
cines, but by reason of its costli­
ness is seldom used.

Lapis magnetis, the Loadstone
for value far exceeding the Dia­
mond, of a drawing and healing
quality.

Lapis Hematis, Bloud-stone,
good to stench bleeding inward­
ly and outwardly, with many o­
ther medicinal vertues.

Lapis prunellæ, a stone made
of salt-niter:  it is good against
tooth-ach, inflamations, and sores
of the mouth or throat, and hot
fevers, taken inwardly.

Lapis sabulosus, is a great se­
cret in curing a Fracture, being
daily given the patient one dram
a day, mixing it with the out­
ward medicine, and applied to
the pained place.

Larynx, diseases of the teeth,
gums, jaws, pallate, wind-pipe,



the throat or organ of the
voice.

Larch turpentine, a kind of
Rosin or Turpentine that grows
upon Larch tree in Italy:  its of­
ten used in oyntments and play­
sters to clense and heal wounds:
it may be taken inwardly with
Hony, and so it cleanseth the
breast, loosens the belly, and is
good to expel the stone and gra­
vel.

Lassitude, weariness.

Lateres, stones or bricks for
furnaces.

Latifolious, with broad leaves.

Lateres Cribrati, pouder of
bricks used in preparing medi­
cines, to make good lute as well
as otherwayes.

Laudanum, a yellowish gum
as some write; but others affirm
it to be made of a dew which fal­
leth upon a certain Herb in



Greece:  some say its taken hang­
ing at Goats-beards that feed a­
mong that plant:  It's often used
in Pomanders, and being an­
nointed upon the head with oyl
or Myrtles, it strengthens the
skin, and keeps the hair from fal­
ling off.

Lapis Lazuli, a blew stone of
a kind of marble with veins of
gold in it; it is hot and dry:
and being rightly propared it's
good against melancholly dis­
eases, and by cleansing the bloud
preserves from the leprosie.

Leguminous, a kind of pulse.

Leniating, looseness.

Lenitive, a gentle purge.

Lenocintes, gentle medicines.

Lentor, a clammy or glewish
humor.

Lenetives, gentle medicines
to loosen the belly, or plaisters,
or oyntments to ease pain.

Lupus the leprosie, a dis­



ease causing a roughness of the
skin, with black wannish spots,
and dry parched scales, and
scurff.

Lethal, deadly.

Lethargy, a sleepy disease in
which the senses and reason it self
seem to sleep.

Levative, medicines easing
pain.

Leviate, ease pain.

Levigated, finely poudered.

Leucophlegmatia, a kind of
dropsie.

Liberates, frees, or releases.

Libidinous, lustful, leacher­
ous.

Lichen, a tetter, or ringworm.

Lienteria intestinorum levitas, 
a kind of flux of the stomach,
when the meat and drink runs
from a man as he taketh it with­
out concoction or alteration.

Ligamenta, sinews.



Ligature, bands wherewith
joynts dislocated and broken
bones are bound up and contain­
ed in their places, till they may
knit and grow together again:
it signifies also a binding of any
part so hard as that thereby the
bloud and humors (through the
pain and straitness of the liga­
ture) is drawn from the place or
diseased part, to the part so
bound.

Ligneous, a woody substance.

Ligula Uvula, a little piece of
flesh in the roof of the mouth.

Limbeck, a still, to distil wa­
ters.

Limation, filing.

Limatura martis, the filings
of horn used for the making of
Crocus martis.

Limpid, clear, pure, transpa­
rent.

Linetus, Eclegma, lambe­



tivum, or Confection that is not
chewed but licked in; and by
the Apothecaries is called by an
Arabian word, viz. Lohoch.

Liniments, oyntments used
for curing the scurvy, dropsie,
and palsie.

Lipitude, purblindness.

Lipothymy, a swouning where­
in one seemeth to be dead, the
vital spirits being suddenly op­
prest.

Liquation, making liquid.

Liquified, made liquid, or
turn'd to water.

Lithargy, the foam or scum
that riseth from Lead, Silver,
or Gold, &c. when they are try­
ed.  It is cold in operation:  and
of frequent use with Surgeons in
oyntments and plaisters, being
of a gentle, drying, clensing,
binding nature.

Lithiasis, the Disease of the



stone, engendered in a mans bo­
dy.

Lithontribon, a Confection
of the Apothecaries so called
because it drives away and breaks
the stone in a mans body.

Lithontriptica, Medicines
breaking the stone in the blad­
der.

Lixivium, see Lucinium.

Lixive, Lee.

Loches, or Child-bed purga­
tions, and immoderate flux cau­
sed from the over-wide opening
of the vessels, or their tearing in
hard travel.

Loch, Lohoch or Linctus, is
a thick syrup, or other soft sub­
stance, not to be swallowed but
let melt in the mouth, that so it
may gently slide down, and
thereby have the more vertue a­
gainst diseases of the breast,
lungs, and throat.



Longanum, the arse-gut.

Longævity, long life, or old
age.

Lotion, a preparing of medi­
cines, or washing.

Loture, the washings, or water
wherein any thing that leaves a
taste or tincture behind it hath
been washed.

Lozenges, little tablets made
up of several things with sugar
to lie and melt in the mouth:  ta­
ken for colds.

Lubricating, making slippery,
loosening.

Lues, a plague or pestilence.

Lues venerea, the French
pox, a plague containing all
diseases in one, and seldom cu­
red perfectly.

Lucinium, lixivum, lye made
of ashes, which is profitable in
healing outwardly and inwardly,
& the best in caustick medicines.



Lunacy, a disease wherein the
patient is distracted at certain
times of the Moon.

Lutation, is a medicine thick
or thin according to the heat and
continuance of the fire which ex­
actly stops the mouth of the
vessel that no vapor pass out.

Lutetta, Paris.

Luxation, a loosening of the
joynts.

Lycium, a decoction made of
the juyce or decoction of the
bramble root.

Lysiponium, medicines mitiga­
ting pain.


M

Maceration, steeping or soak­
ing any thing in liquor till it be
almost dissolved.

Macerated, steeped.

Macilent, lean, slender.



Madefaction, weting, or ma­
king wet.

Madid, moist, wet.

Magistral syrup, is a particu­
lar syrup prescribed by a skilful
Physitian to his patient for a
particular disease.

Malacia, Pica, a corrupt ap­
petite by reason of humors ga­
thered about the mouth of the
stomach, which is the cause of
longings in women.

Malaxation, softening, loo­
sening.

Malcolent, that hath an ill
smell.

Malignant medicaments, vio­
lent, pernicious, unwholsome,
destructive medicines.

Malleable, abiding the Ham­
mer or Mallet, or which may
be wrought or beaten there­
with.

Mamillary veins, passages



from the Womb to the breasts,
serving to convey the menstrual
bloud thither to be converted in­
to milk.

Manducated, chewed.

Manna, a kind of sweet dew,
like sugar.

Mania madness, a doting
without a fever, with raging and
fury.

Maniple, an handful of herbs,
flowers, roots, and such like
things.

Mansuete, tame.

Manus Christi, sugar boyled
with Rose-water without putting
any thing else to it; it may be
made with violet water, or cin­
namon water.

Mandrake, a forrein plant,
bearing yellow round Apples:
the root of this herb is great and
white like a Parsnip, growing in
two branches, like the legs of a



Woman, which gives opportu­
nity to Jugglers to Counterfeit
obscene beastly Images there­
with:  the root, especially the
bark is extreme cold and dry, e­
ven to the fourth degree:  it is
therefore very dangerous to be
taken inward:  it's usually given
to cast people into a dead sleep
when they are to be dismembered
or cut of the stone.

Marchasia, minerals which are
unprepared, as silver oar, lead
oar, &c.

Marchasite, a stone participa­
ting with the nature of some me­
tal, yet in some small quantity
that the metal cannot be melted
from it but will vapour away in
smoak, the stone turning to
ashes.  These Marchasites are
commonly in colour like the me­
tal mixed with them, whether it
be gold, silver, brass, or any o­



ther.  Some call any stone out of
which fire may be struck, a Mar­
chasite.

Marcid, musty, unwholsome,
stinking, nasty.

Marcor, corruption, rotten­
ness.

Margarites, the fairest sorts
of pearls.

Mariscus, the Piles.

Mastick, a white and clear gum
of a sweet savor; it grows on the
Lentisk tree in the Island of
Chios:  it's temperate in heat,
and of a dry binding nature,
whereby it strengthens the sto­
mach, stayes vomiting, and
stops any issue of bloud:  it's
good to rub the teeth to fasten
them, and make them white.

Masticatories, medicines to be
chewed to bring away Rheum
from malignity, the venemous
or poysonful quality of certain



Humors and Diseases, which
makes them for the most part
deadly.

Matter or Quittour, the white
thick filth that issues from sores
and ulcers when they are on the
mending hand.

Matrix, Mediana vena, the
Median vein.

Matrix, the Womb, or place
of Conception.

Maturity, ripeness.

Measles, a kind of small pox
which arises from the impurities
of the Mothers bloud.

Mechoacan, a whitish root
brought out of India, called by
some, Indian, or white Rhubarb.
It's hot in the first, and dry in
the second degree;  and purgeth
all humors of what kind soever,
with much ease:  it clenseth and
comforteth the liver, and all in­
ward parts.



Mediastinum, so called because
it mediateth or divideth the chest
in the midst.

Medicamen de Turbith, a
purging medicine.

Medick, Physitian, an abbrevi­
ation of the Latin word medi­
cus.

Medium, whatever is trans­
parent, or may be seen through,
is called a medium to the sight,
principally the air as its either
thick or thin;  also glass, water,
horn, are called mediums when
question is of seeing through
them.

Medulla, pith, marrow.

Mel, Honey is laxative, clen­
sing, softening, and healing.

Melancholia, a melancholy
kind of madness, a doting with­
out a fever with fear and sad­
ness.

Melanogogon, purgers of Me­



lancholy.

Melitites, honyed Wine.

Mellifluous, sweet as hony.

Membrane, a fleshy skin, a
coat serving as a coat for the ar­
teries and veins.

Membranous, skinny substan­
ces like parchment.

Meninges, the films or Tu­
nicles which are the coverings or
coats wherein the brain is con­
tained.

Menstruous, a Woman which
hath upon her her monthly
flowers:  or which belongeth to
them.

Mercury, and Mercurial purges, 
such as are made of Quicksilver
chymically prepared.

Mercurius, Quicksilver, like a
seeming friend which heals and
kills.

Mercurius præcipitatus and sub­
limatus, Mercury precipitate and



sublimate.

Mercurius solis, mercury of
gold:  I shall leave the descripti­
on hereof to the Philosophers
by the fire.

Mercurius Lunæ, mercury of
silver.

Mercurius martis, mercury of
iron.

Mercurius jovis, mercury of
tin.

Mercurius saturni, mercury of
lead.

Mercury, is a liquid substance,
sowr, or sharp, volatile, pene­
trable, airy and most pure, from
which all nourishment pro­
ceeds.

Meri, Arabum, Oesephagus, 
the mouth of the stomach.

Mesentery, the skin which
holds the guts together, and runs
along amongst them full of fatty
knobs.



Metra, Hippocrates uterus, the
Womb.

Metrenchyta, an instrument to
inject liquid medicines into the
Womb.

Michleta, the name of a Con­
fection so called.

Microcosmographia, a descrip­
tion of the body of man.

Microcosmus, it properly sig­
nifies a little World; but it's
commonly used to signifie a
man who in himself hath some­
thing or other answering to any
part of the great World.

Mictus sanguinis, is a disease
of the Reins, through which
thin wheyish bloud is passed.

Midriasis, is the dilatation of
the pupil of the eye.

Midrif, a sinewy skin passing
over-thwart a mans body, and
divides the heart and lungs from
the stomach, guts, and liver,



lest the vital parts should be of­
fended with ill vapors from those
below.

Milt,, so term'd because it
draws away the dross of the
bloud.

Minium, red lead, of a cool­
ing, drying, repelling, healing,
softening, and discussing quali­
ty.

Mineral, any thing digged
out of the earth.

Minorative, lesser, or making
less:  it's particularly used to di­
stinguish a gentle purge from a
more violent, which is called
eradicative pulling away the of­
fending humor by the very
roots as we say.

Minuates, lessens, diminish­
eth.

Miscellany, a mixture of
things without any order:  a
Galamatry or hotch-potch of di­



vers things mingled together.

Miscible, apt to incorporate,
or mingle together.

Misy, a kind of yellow Cop­
per shining like gold, brought
out of Egypt and the Isle of Cy­
prus:  it is of a fretting, burn­
ing quality, as the common cop­
peras is.

Mitigation, abatement of
pain.

Mithidrate, a great Confecti­
on invented by King Mithri ­
dates; it is of singular vertue a­
gainst poyson, and hath so ma­
ny and strong simples in it, that
it ought not to be taken before it
be six months old.

Mixtion, or mingling of se­
veral Herbs together.

Modes, wayes, fashions, and
manner of doing things.

Mola, an unshap'd piece of



flesh in the mother.

Moles, marks with children.

Mollition, the beginning of
liquation.

Morbus Caducus, the falling-
sickness.

Morbus spinalis, the disease of
the spine of the back, the Rick­
ets.

Morbifical matter, is that which
in most diseases is the principal
cause of them.

Mordacity, biting quality.

Mordacious, biting.

Mother, a disease of the womb
incident to Women when the
womb riseth with pain upward:
in this disease the smelling to
sweet savors is evil, but to stink­
ing and loathsome smells very
helpful.

Mortification, deading of any
part of the body, as in a Gan­
grene.



Mortiferous, Mortifical, dead­
ly, or bringeth death.

Mucagines, a mucilage:  a
slime or juyce which is drawn ei­
ther out of herbs, roots, or seeds
by steeping in some distill'd wa­
ters, or some other convenient
liquor.

Mucronated, sharp pointed.

Mucaginous, clammy, sli­
my.

Mumia, a thing like pitch sold
at the Apothecaries:  some affirm
it's taken out of old Tombs, be­
ing the embalming of dead bo­
dies:  others say it's made of
mans flesh boyled in pitch:  it's
hot in the second degree, and
good against bruisings, and spit­
ting of bloud.

Mundane, clean, pure.

Mundification, is the clensing
of any matter by few or many
operations from that which is



filthy and vicious, that the most
excellent may be admitted to the
work in hand.

Muscle, is an organical and
dissimilar part made up of
nerves, flesh, fibres, veins, and
arteries.

Mutilated, maimed.

Myrobolanes, a fruit growing
in Egypt and Syria like plumes
or damsons:  there are five kinds
of them, Citrinæ, Judæ, Ce­
pniæ, Emblicæ, and Belliricæ;
the first purgeth choler, the se­
cond melancholy, and the three
last phlegm:  they are cooling,
and comfortable to nature.

Myrrh, a gum brought out of
Arabia and Assyria, of colour
between white and red:  it is hot
and dry in the second degree, or
as some say in the third:  it's of­
ten used in physick, being of an
opening, clensing, dissolving na­



ture.


N

Narcotick, Medicines that
stupifie and dull the sense of feel­
ing they are also given to pro­
cure sleep, as well as to ease
pain.

Natural faculties, the seat of
them is the stomach and liver,
&c. as the heart is of the vital,
and the brain of the animal.

Nausea, is a desire to vomit
with trouble, and only sending
and pewking forth a thin water­
ish humor by salivation.

Nauseousness, squeaziness of
the stomach;  enclining to vo­
mit.

Nebula oculorum, the dimness
of the eyes.

Necromancy, the art of Divin­
ing by dead bodies, and parts



thereof.

Necrosy, deadness.

Neotericks, modern Writers
either in Physick or any other
Art so called in opposition to
the Antients.

Nephritica, medicines proper
for the cure of the stone.

Nephritis, Renum dolor, a
grief, or sickness in the Reins.

Nervalia, medicines proper
to the sinews.

Nerve, is the same with a
sinew, and is that whereby the
brain adds sense and motion to
the body.

Nervorum resolutio or dis­
solutio, is a dissolving or weak­
ning of the sinews, called paraly­
sis.

Nicotian, Tobacco.

Nidorous smells, are like burnt
salt, scorched meat, or fryed
oyl.



Nigredes, makes black.

Nigritude, blackness.

Nitent, shining.

Nitre, salt-peter, as it's com­
monly used to signifie; but the
true nitre is found in the bowels
of the earth, and is very rare:
whereas salt-peter is artificial
and common.

Nocivous, hurtful.

Nocumental, hurtful.

Nodous, knotty.

Nude, naked.

Nudils, are pledgets or pessa­
ries made of lint or cotton wool,
and dipped in some unguent, and
used either in wounds, or sores,
or in diseases of the Womb.

Nutrition, nourishment.

Nutrition, the mixing of moi­
sture by little & little, for chang­
ing the quality of the medicine.

Nyctalops, Lusciosus, one that
is pur blind.




O

Obdulcorated, made sweet, or
sweetned with sugar or hony.

Obdurate, hard.

Oblique, slanting, athwart,
crooked.

Obnoxious, lyable to punish­
ment.

Obruted, buried, covered,
hidden.

Obsolete, old, out of mind,
forgot, out of use.

Obsonies, all manner of meats
used at meals.

Obstructions, stoppages, in
the passages of nutrition.

Obtenebrated, clouded, dark­
ned, or hidden from the light of
the Sun.

Obverted, overthrown, spoil­
ed.

Obvolved, wrapped up close.



Occult, hidden, mysteri­
ous.

Ocular Medicaments, Medi­
cines for the eyes.

Odentick, belonging to the
teeth.

Odors, smells.

Odoriferous, sweet smelling.

Odoraments, perfumes.

Oeconomy, houshold govern­
ment.

Oedema, a tumor or swelling
caused by flegm;  and is soft,
white, and of no great pain.

Oesephagus, the mouth of the
stomach, the gullet.

Oleagynous, oily, fatty.

Omentum, the caul or suet
wherein the bowels are wrap'd,
which by reason of its loosness to
receive humors that come from
other parts, it is subject to di­
vers diseases, as the Mesentary
and Pancreas.



Omphacy, unripe, it signifies
properly the juyce of unripe
Grapes.

Omoplata, the muscles of the
shoulder-blade.

Operative, active, working.

Operculated, close covered.

Ophiogenes, generated of Ser­
pents.

Opthalmy, Diseases in the
eyes.

Opiats, are such medicines as
have opium in them, and are used
in infectious diseases.

Opobalsamum, natural balsom.

Opium, the juyce of black
Poppies, sold dry by Apothe­
caries:  it is sometimes used in
Physick to make one sleep, or
to asswage excessive pain:  but it
must be corrected and given with
other things, and with great dis­
cretion, or it may make the pa­
tient sleep till doomsday.



Oppilation, stoppage of the brest.

Opopanax, a sap of liquor
flowing out of a plant called
panax in some of the hot Coun­
tries:  it's brought hither dry,
being of a yellow colour with­
out, and white within if it be not
too stale:  it's good for agues,
and bruises.

Opisthotones, a Convulsion so
named when the body is drawn
backward.

Opticks, the Art of Per­
spective, or wherein the natures
and differences of Seeing is
handled.

Optick nerves, so called from
their action, because they com­
municate to the eye the sense of
seeing.

Orchal, a stone like Alum
used by divers in dying red.

Orifice, the hole or mouth of
the stomach, veins, womb, or of



the incision made by a Surgeon,
when he lets blood; or the mouth
of a wound or ulcer.

Orgal, the lees of Wine dry­
ed, and used by Dyers to make
their cloth to take the colour.

Organs, are organical parts of
the body, those that are ordain­
ed to such or such a particular
use different from others, as the
foot to tread, the eye to see, or
the ear to hear, &c.

Oringoes, the roots of Sea­
holly; it grows in many parts
of England, on the Sea-shore, in
great plenty:  preserved (as they
are to be had at the Comfit­
makers) they are excellent good
for such as have Consumptions,
or old aged people.

Orthopnæa, a straitness of
breath by stopping of the Lights,
that one cannot breath, but hol­
ding his neck upright.



Orthopnoical, short breathing.

Oscitantly, carelesly, negli­
gently.

Os Cribosum, a bone full of
small holes like a sieve, whence
it hath its name;  it's placed a­
bove the nose, and by it the snot
and snivel that comes out of the
nose, is drained from the
brain.

Otalgia, pain in the ears, a
violent disease both in respect of
the part affected, viz. the in­
ward membrane which goeth a­
bout the cavity of the ear, as al­
so by reason of the nearness of
the brain.

Oval, the shape of an egg.

Oxicrate, a medicine of vine­
gar and water mixt together.

Oxydorcica, sharp medicines
to quicken the sight.

Oxymel, simple syrup made
of vinegar and hony.



Oxyrrhodinum, oyl of Roses
and Vinegar mixt together,
whereof medicines are made.

Oxysaccharum Compositum, a
compound syrup of vinegar and
hony.

Ozæna, a sore in the nose cau­
sing a stinking breath.

Ozylete officinarum, perfum­
ing Candles.


P

Papulum, fodder.

Pærinæum, the seam which
runneth like a ridge between the
privities and fundament both in
men and women.

Palm, the hand.

Palmos, Palpitatio Cordis, the
panting of the heart.

Palpebra, the eye-lid.

Palliative Cure, is when a dis­
ease is not eradicated, but only



mitigated or covered, whereby
either the pain, or trouble, or de­
formity is somewhat eased and
remedied;  to this end were
wooden legs, arms, fingers,
glass-eyes invented.

Panada, a pap made with
bread.

Panicles, Cats tails, any thing
that groweth round and long.

Pancreas, the sweet-bread,
serves to prop the vessels lest
they should break, and are in­
stead of a pillow to the sto­
mach.

Panchymagogon, such purgers
as are universal, purging all hu­
mors.

Pandalea, a kind of paste or
massapan, good for a cough.

Panpharmacal, an universal
medicine.

Paracousis, noise in the ears
which comes from a præter­



natural motion of the air which
is naturally contained in the
ears.

Paralitick, sick of the Pal­
sie.

Paralysis, the palsie wherein
the loss of sense and motion is in
some parts of the body by rea­
son of the stopping of the pas­
sages of the animal parts.

Paranitium barbarorum, a dis­
ease bred in the fingers.

Paraplegia, the same with
Paralysis.

Paranomasis, likenesse in
name.

Parastatæ, are bodies placed
without the Abdomen in the
Scrotum or Cod, set upon the
Testicles, to which they are a­
like in nature and use.

Paregoricum, medicines easing
pain.

Perforated, boared through.



Pericardium, a thin skin or
film compassing the heart.

Peripneumonia, an inflama­
tion of the lungs or lights with a
vehement fever.

Pericranium, the skin that co­
vers the scull, the hairy scalp.

Perite, skilful, cunning.

Peritonæum, the rim of the
belly, the inner coat of the bel­
ly next the guts, which when it
is broke the Women say the rim
of the belly is burst.

Peristaltick, motion of the
guts, is a motion whereby the
guts press themselves together a­
bove the excrements, and so
squeez them out.

Perperously, foolishly and un­
skilfully.

Permeate, pass through the
pores of the body.

Permixtion, mixing through­
ly.



Pernicious, deadly, destru­
ctive, wicked.

Perspicuous, clear and transpa­
rent as glass, chrystal, fair wa­
ter, &c.

Perspirable, the body is said
to be perspirable when the invi­
sible pores or holes in the skin
are kept open, so that the vapors
arising from evil humors may
freely breath out.

Perturb, to trouble.

Pervious, thin, that which
may be past through, full of
holes like the bottom of a
sieve.

Pessary, a certain medicine
made like a finger to thrust into
a Womans privities with a string
tyed to it.

Pestis, the plague, a deadful
disease, venemous, contagious,
lothsome, noysome, and hateful
to mankind.



Pestiferous, that which brings
the plague.

Petrous, rocky.

Phagadena, a running canker
or pock.

Pharmaceutick remedies, all
such medicines as are made by
the Apothecaries.

Pharmacopæia, a Dispensato­
ry or Book wherein is set down
the Composition or Receipts of
Medicines for direction to the
Apothecary.

Phigethlon, is an inflamation
of the parts, and if it become in­
durable, it is reckoned amongst
the flegmatick tumors, and by
Guido termed scrophulous.

Philter, an amorous medicine,
a Potion to procure love.

Phisiologer, a searcher of Na­
tural Secrets.

Phlebotomy, bloud-letting.



Phlegm, slime, watrish moisture.

Phlegma, it is used for any
distilled water which hath no
spirit, as Rose-water.

Phlegmagogon, purgers of flegm.

Phlegmon, a tumor or swel­
ling caused by bloud.

Phreniæ, veins in the liver.

Phrenitis or Phrenzie, an in­
flamation of the brain, and it's
membranes, with a continual
dotage, & a sharp constant fever.

Phthisis, a kind of consumpti­
on:  see Culpepper's Practise of
Physick.

Physiognomy, an art to judge of
ones nature & conditions by his
countenance and form of body.

Pia mater, a little skin that co­
vereth the brain.

Pica, an unnatural longing in
Women.

Piger Henricus, an instrument
for distilling, so called for his



exceeding slowness.

Pillulæ Cochiæ, Pills which
purge the head.

Pillulæ Iliacæ, Pills for the
Chollick, or pain in the small
guts.

Pillulæ Opthalinicæ, Pills for
the eyes.

Pillulæ pestilentiales, pills a­
gainst the plague.

Pillulæ stomachiæ, pills for the
stomach.

Pituitous, filthy.

Placenta, is the proper name
of a suger-cake:  physically it's
used for a piece of flesh in the co­
vering of a Child in the
womb.

Plethorick, a too full habit of
body, or an evil constitution of
the body wherein the humors
offend rather in quantity, than
quality.

Pleura, a membrane taking his



name from the ribs, which are
called pleuras, because it is
stretched under them all except
the twelfth.

Pleurisie, is the swelling of the
membrane that goes about the
ribs, of the internal, intercostal
muscles.

Pleureticus, one that hath the
pleurisie.

Plexus Choroides, hath his si­
tuation in the forward ventricles
betwixt them and the arch, they
are termed coroeide, plegmata,
because they are like the chorion
or membrane which compasseth
the infant.

Plumbum philosophorum, the
Philosophers head, a mysterious
preparation.

Pluvial water, rain water.

Podagra, the Gout in the
feet.

Podagrical dolor, the same with



podagra.

Podex, the arse-hole.

Pollicitates, promises, assures,
warrants.

Polychrestum, a medicine of
frequent use.

Polypus, a certain imposthume
in the nose.

Polypodium, a kind of herb
like fern, growing much at the
roots of Oaks:  the root thereof
is used to purge melancholy,
gross, phlegmatick humors.

Pomo odorata, Apples to smell
to, to prevent the plague.

Pomada, or pomata, a sweet
smelling salve made of Apples.

Pomatum, a drink made of
Apples.

Ponderous, weighty.

Pontian, Wormwood, see
Wormwood.

Poplitis vena, the vein of a
mans ham behind the leg.



Populæon, an oyntment in the
shops made of poplar.

Pores, the skin is full of small
unperceivable little holes, where­
by sweat and vapors exhale from
the body.

Poros, that matter which con­
solidateth the broken bones with­
in.

Posca, a kind of small hous­
hold Wine mixed with Water
in the press.

Potent, powerful.

Potential, that is any thing in
quality, hot, or cold, or burn­
ing, opposed to actual, as a red
hot iron is actually burning.

Potible, that which may be
drunk.

Precided, cut off.

Præcipitation, is when bodies
dissolved in Aqua fortis into
Water, and Mercury cast upon
them, and beaten into ashes,



they are made perfect medi­
cines.

Præcipitated, thrown head­
long.

Præforations, stoppings.

Præparation of humors, is to
make them fit for expulsion, and
consists in separating them from
the mass of good bloud, or in
thickening them if they are too
thin, or in thinning them, if too
thick.

Præposterous, out of season,
unhandsome, unseemly, disor­
derly.

Præpotent, strong, effectual,
potent, above, or before o­
thers.

Præsidies, auxiliary forces,
helps by the by.

Præsidy, help, comfort, &c.

Pregnant, big with child.

Prepuce, the fore-skin of a
mans yard which the Jewes used



to cut off in Circumcision.

Præstigiators, cozeners, chea­
ters.

Preternatural, contrary, or
besides the course of nature.

Privation, God knows what
it is, there is no such thing in na­
ture.

Probable, likely to come to
pass.

Procatarctick Causes, the pri­
mary, first working or moving
Causes, as in a Fever, the next
immediate moving Cause is pu­
trefied Choller, &c.  but the
first working and occasional
Cause was the patients taking
cold, or by swimming in cold
water whereby the pores became
shut, and so the matter of the
Disease inflamed by being pent
up in the body.

Procerity, height.

Procidentia Ani, the falling



down of the fundament, which
is very frequent in children.

Procidious, ready to fall out.

Profligation, the overthrow­
ing, driving away, or bringing
any thing to destruction.

Profluvio sanguinis ex naribus, 
flux of bloud at the nose.

Profound, deep, subtilly,
learned.

Prognosis, the fore-know­
ledge of a disease.

Prognosticks of diseases, signs
foretelling what will be the event
of any particular disease, or if
the patient shall recover or
not.

Projects, cast forth.

Propomates, all kind of
drinks made with sugar and ho­
ny.

Prostates, the kernels which
keep the seed after the stones
have finish'd it.



Propriety, a pain by propriety
is when the cause of the pain is in
the part pained, as when the
head-ach comes from the hu­
mors in the head it's called a pain
by propriety when it proceeds
of vapors sent up from the sto­
mach or any other part it's cal­
led head-ach by consent or sym­
pathy.

Protopium, Wine new pressed
out of the grape.

Protraction, is the lengthening
out of the disease and making it
last long, as most of those you
call Doctors are wont to do, to
get the more fees from their pa­
tients purses.

Protrusion, casting out.

Pryapismus, an unnatural
standing of the yard, without a­
ny desire to generation.

Pseudo-medick, a false physi­
tian, or counterfeit Empirick.



Psilothers, medicines to take
off hair from any part of the bo­
dy.

Psora Plinii sera scabies, a
certain kind of scurvy itch so
called.

Pterygium, or Haw in the eyes
called Unguis, is a hard nervous
little membrane which coms out
of the great corner of the eye,
covers the white, and after by
continuance the black, and co­
vering the pupilla hindereth the
sight.

Pthiriasis, morbus pedicularis, 
the louzy disease.

Ptisan, a Decoction of Bar­
ly.

Pules, the hairy hillock above
the privities in men and women,
the word signifies ripeness, be­
cause that hair being grown out
shews the party to be fit for Ge­
neration.



Pugil, as much in quantity as
may be taken up between the
three fore fingers and the
thumb.

Pulsation, beating of the ar­
teries in any part of the bo­
dy.

Pulse, beans, pease, vetches,
&c.

Pulverication, bringing to
pouder.

Pupil of the eye, is the round
black spot in the middle, which
we commonly call the sight or
apple of the eye.

pulchritude, beauty.

Pulverable, hard things (as
oyster-shells) brought to pou­
der.

Purgation, is the clensing of
impure liquor, having a thick
sediment and froth by Decocti­
on.

Putrefaction, is dissolving or



opening of mixed mineral bodies by
a natural warmth and moist pu­
trefaction, viz. by horse dung,
and Balneum Mariæ.

Putretude, filthiness.

Purilence, the dissolution of
any thing into a thick slimy
substance.

Pyramis, a geometrical figure
broad at bottom, and growing
less and less towards the top till
it end in a point:  the Sepulchers
of the Egyptian Kings were of
this form, and therefore called
pyramides.

Pyroticks, Causticks, burning
medicines as the name im­
ports.


Q

Quartation, is the separation
of gold and silver mixt together
by four unequal parts.



Quinque-angular, five cor­
ner'd.

Quinta Essentia, is an absolute
pure and well digested medicine
drawn from any substance either
animal, vegetable, or miner­
al.

Quittour, matter.

Quotidiana, a daily Ague,
commonly call'd a Quotidian A­
gue.


R

Radical moisture, the funda­
mental juyce of the body, where­
by the natural heat is nourish­
ed and preserved, as the flame
in a Lamp is preserved by
oyle.

Ramex varicosus, a Rupture
of swollen bones.

Ranula, a swelling under the
tongue in that part whereby it is



bound to the ligament, it is of­
tentimes so large that it is seen a­
bove the lower teeth.

Rarefaction, making thin.

Rasion, rasping, shreding, or
fileing.

Recenseate, reckon up.

Recency, newness.

Recipient part, is that part
which receives the offending hu­
mor.

Recruted, repaired, restored,
made up:  it's a term in the Art
Military.

Rectification, when the distil­
led liquor is oftentimes distill'd
over again.

Redacted, brought, constrain­
ed, reduced.

Reduced, brought back a­
gain.

Reduction, the restauration of
any thing that hath suffered a
change or alteration to its for­



mer condition.

Reduplicated, often doubled,
or repeated.

Refaricated, stuffed, quilted.

Referted, replenished, well
furnished.

Reflux, flowing back again.

Reficiates, amends, com­
forts.

Refocilate, refresh, revive.

Refractions, the breaking of
the representations in visible ob­
jects:  it's a term in Opticks.

Refragates, contradicts, gain­
sayes.

Refrigeration, cooling.

Refrigeratory, is in general
any plate or vessel used for cool­
ing:  particularly it is taken for
a vessel like a pail placed about
the head of an Alembeck of
Copper or Pewter, and is used
to be filled with cold Water that
so the Still-head may not grow



hot, but that the Spirits which
in distillation ascend up may the
more easily be made thick and
turned back into the Receiver,
which otherwise would be dis­
persed and consumed.

Relax, is used sometimes to
signifie the loosening of the bel­
ly.

Relaxing, slakening, unbind­
ing.

Remitted, lessened, abated,
eased, pardoned.

Renovation, a renewing.

Repelled, driven away.

Repercussives, medicines which
are applied to drive back the hu­
mors from a diseased part.

Repletion, too great an abun­
dance, or fulness of bloud and
humors.

Reposed, laid up, to lie a great
while.

Represses, restrains.



Reptant, creeping.

Repullulate, bud, or spring a­
gain.

Repurgation, the purging of
metals from all superfluities ad­
herring to them of a nature dif­
ferent from themselves.

Resartiate, to revive or repair,
or make amends for.

Reserate, to open, or unlock.

Residence, settling, or more
properly the thicker part of any
liquor that with standing settles
to the bottom.

Resolving Medicaments, are
such as loosen and scatter evil hu­
mors gathered to an head in any
part of the body.

Resolution, weakening or dis­
solving the strength of the body,
or any part thereof, as when it is
palsied.  It signifies also a sepa­
ration of things mingled one
from another.



Respiration, breathing.

Respondeth, answereth.

Resumptive, refreshing, or
recovering.

Retentive faculty, that power
or faculty in the body whereby
the food is retained till the sto­
mach and veins have sucked the
nourishing virtue from it.

Retort, is a vessel of glass, or
earth, which the Chymists use
in distilling such Spirits and oyls
as require a violent heat to be
distilled.

Resorted, forced back, turned
back.

Retunded, dulled, blunted, a­
bated.

Retuseness, hoarseness, gross­
ness.

Revelled, drawn back.

Reverberation, is the burning
of bodies in a most violent heat
in a furnace made for the pur­



pose:  it's a Chymical busi­
ness.

Revulsion, drawing back the
blood or humors from the part
affected.

Revulsive remedies, remedies
to draw back the humor from
the diseased part.

Rhagadia, or Rhagades, chaps
and clefts in the hands, and other
parts of the body.

Rhagoides, the third rind or
skin that compasseth the eye.

Rheuma, Rheum, or a distil­
lation of humors.

Rhodomel, hony of roses.

Rhyas, a certain consuming,
or diminishing of the flesh in the
great corner of the eyes, from
whence it is enlarged.

Rigated, moistened, dissolv­
ed.

Rigidity, stiffness, coldness.

Rob, the juyces of plants and



fruits pressed forth and thickened
in the Sun.

Roboration, strengthening,
comforting.

Rose, a certain tumor or infla­
mation called Erysipelas.

Rosinos, matter like rosin.

Rough Artery, or (as the latin
term used by Anatomists is) the
Aspera Arteria, is the wind-pipe,
or wezand, which is rough, or
the out-side with circles, or
gristly rings.

Rubetude, redness.

Ructus, a belching, or break­
ing wind upwards.

Ruderous places, places where
rubbish lies.


S

Sagacity, prudence, foresight.

Sane, sound, healthful.

Salacity, lechery.



Sal Alkali, that which the
Chymists call their vegetable
salt.

Sal Ammoniaeum, a certain
salt brought out of Turky.

Sal colcotharis, the salt of vi­
triol after the spirits are drawn
off:  it's exceeding astringent,
and drying.

Sal Communis, common salt:
it's discussive, clensing, healing,
very pretious.

Sal gem, a clear transparent
salt like chrystal, growing in the
Mines in Polonia, near Craco­
via.

Saliture, the art of salting or
seasoning any meats.

Sal petræ, salt-peter, of admi­
rable effects, both good and e­
vil.

Sal prunellæ, salt-peter purifi­
ed with brimstone:  clean white
salt-peter is as good for any use.



Sal tartari, the salt of Tartar,
or Wine lees, of excellent use in
physick.

Salutary, healing, or whole­
some.

Salutiferous, bringing health.

Sanguification, the making of
bloud, or the conversion of the
chylus into bloud.

Sanies vint, Wine lees.

Sanity, health.

Sapes, are medicinated juyces
which having been pressed out of
fruits and herbs, have been
brought to a consistency by stan­
ding in the Sun:  but properly a
Rob or Sapa is the juyce of ripe
Grapes squeezed out and boyl­
ed to the consistence of hony.

Saphæna, the vein in the ankle
usually opened for menstrual
affects in Women.

Sapo, Sope, a good attractive
and softening medicine.



Sapor, a taste.

Sapors, tastes.

Sarcoma, flesh growing in the
nostrils like the proud flesh in a
sore.

Sarcotica, medicines used to
breed flesh in hollow sores.

Sarments, twigs of trees.

Sature, sowing of seeds.

Satyrismus, the same with
Pryapismus:  it's a disease wher­
by a mans yard is kept continu­
ally standing.

Scapulation, beating or brui­
sing with a staff.

Scapula, see Omophlata.

Scabies, a scab or itch.

Scabies-Hispanica, the pox.

Scansory, climbing.

Scarrification, is the cutting
of the skin to make a vent for it
to bleed into a Cupping-glass.

Sceleton, the whole frame of
bones in a mans body, the



skin and flesh being consumed
off.

Sceiles, the veins of the Milt
or Spleen.

Scabrosity, roughness, filthi­
ness.

Schirrus, an hard tumor or
swelling without much pain.

Sciatica, the Hip gout which
lies not only in the joynts but in
the flesh also of the bottocks.

Sciolists, smatterers in know­
ledge.

Scorbut, the Scurvy.

Scorbutick persons, such as
are diseased with the scurvy.

Scotoma, a giddiness in the
head.

Scrophula, the Kings-evil so
called because it comes in the
Scropulous parts of the neck and
throat.

Scrotum, the cod or skin wher­
in a mans stones are contained.



Scruple, is twenty grains, or
the weight of so many Barley
corns.

Scrupeus humor, the Gout.

Scurvy, is a disease which pro­
ceeds of the putrefaction of Me­
lancholy.

Scutum, an Emplaister cut in
form of a shield or buckler, to be
applied to the stomach.

Sealed earth, in latin it is cal­
led Terra sigillata:  it's brought
out of the Turks Dominions,
and to prevent cozenage, sealed
with a common seal which hath
his badge, viz. the halfe-Moon
on it.

Sebel Arabum, the ruddy
skin of the eye.

Secession, ceassing to remain,
departing away, separation.

Section, a cutting or dividing
any thing.

Secundine, the skin or mem­



brane wherein the child is wrap­
ped in the Womb.

Sediment, the settling or dregs
of urine or any other liquor.

Sedulity, diligence.

Segragate, separated, or ga­
thered together apart by it self.

Selection, choosing of sim­
ples.

Semi-cupium, an half bath, or
shallow bath that reaches but up
to the navil.

Separation, a Chymical term
signifying to divide or separate
the parts of any liquor or simple
each from other, as the moist
parts by themselves, the dry by
themselves, &c.

Seplasiaries, shop keepers or
such as keep shops of medicines
Druggists, or Apothecaries.

Sericum crudum, raw silk.

Serous-matter, wheyish, like
whey.



Seton, an hole made in the
skin, and a skein of thred or silk
drawn through, and kept in,
which being stirred and moved
every day, causeth the matter
and corruption to come away.

Siccation, is the drying up of
excrementitous humors in bo­
dies, either by the fire, in the
sun, or in the shade.

Siccity, dryness.

Sief Arabum, a medicine for
the eye.

Sigillum Hermetis, Hermes seal: 
a sealing or luting of glasses in a
more excellent way and manner
than ordinary.

Similarity, likeness.

Similar diseases, are such as be­
fal the substance of the body, not
considered as formed into any
limb, organ, or part:  and these
are opposed to organical distem­
pers, which are peculiar only to



the organs, and particular limbs
of the body.

Sinapisms, see Empasms.

Sincere, pure, unmixed.

Singultus, sighing or sobbing:
it signifies also a depraved moti­
on of the stomack called the Hic­
cough by which it desires to ex­
pel somthing that's burdensome
unto it.

Sisarcosis, a joyning together
by flesh.

Sitis Morbosa, the thirsty dis­
ease, caused by an extreme salt
and hot constitution of the body,
and want of drink a great while
together.

Soda Arabum, the head-ach.

Solely, alone.

Solution, a Chymical term:
signifying the dissolving of a bo­
dy or salt after it hath been co­
agulated.

Solution of Continuity, a divi­



ding of such parts as naturally
ought to be united, so every
wound or ulcer is called a solu­
tion of continuity.

Sonitus Aurium, noise in the
ears caused by windy vapors.

Sorb-Apple, a service-berry.

Sorbicle, broth, suppings.

Sorditude, filth, dross, dregs.

Sparadrap, an old linnen rag
dipped all over in any kind of
plaister melted.

Spasmus, Cramp or Cunvul­
sion, an involuntary retraction
of the Nerves and Muscles to­
wards their original.

Species-Lætificantes, a pouder
whereby the heart is mightily
cheared, and exhilerated.

Species retained in the mind: 
are the shapes, ideas, or patterns
of things either seen, or felt, or
heard, or tasted, or smelt.

Specifick quality, a peculiar



hidden property or effect, for
which no reason can be rendred,
according to the received Max­
ims of the schools.

Specifical virtue, that is the
proper essential virtue peculiar to
one particular simple, and no o­
ther.

Species of objects, representa­
tions of things seen; for the vi­
sible things themselves do not
enter into the eye, but certain fi­
gures and ideas of them.

Speculum-oris, an instrument
to hold open the mouth that the
Physitian may view the diseased
parts of the throat.

Sperm, the seed of men or
Women.

Sperma-cœti, it's common
with all Apothecaries, being
mixt with other things, it's used
for blood clotted in the body by
a bruise, or any other accident.



Sphacelus, deadness of any
part, when the flesh and bone are
dead.

Sphacelation, the same as be­
fore.

Sphacelus, or mortification in
the brain, is a suppuration or
corruption of the matter or sub­
stance of the brain, and is called a
Gangrene, Syderation, or blast­
ing of the brain.

Sphincter, the muscle of the
arse.

Spinal, of, or belonging to
the back bone.

Spinalus, a Carbuncle.

Spinous, prickly, thorny.

Spiracles, breathing-holes.

Spissating, thickening.

Splenetick, troubled with the
spleen.

Splenetica, medicines good for
the cure of the spleen:  it signifies
also the vessel of the spleen.



Splen, the Milt.

Spiritus acousticus, that por­
tion of the Animal spirit which
in the ears discerneth sounds.

Spiritus vini, spirit of Wine,
a pure essential liquor distilled
from Wine, cordial, and of in­
finite other virtues.

Spiritus vitales, the vital spi­
rits, the seat wherof is in the heart
and arteries.

Spondilia, the bones of the
back.

Spontaneous, free, willingly,
without constraint, agreeable.

Spume, foam, or froth.

Spurious, counterfeit, not
true.

Sputation, spitting.

Squalor, lothsomness, nasti­
ness.

Squallid, filthy, unwholsome.

Squinancy, the squinzy, and
inflamation in the throat.



State of a disease, is when it
is come to the worst or highest
extremity.

Steeled, liquor wherein steel
hath been quenched or infused.

Stegnotica, things stopping,
or that cause obstructions.

Stercus Caninus, Dogs tord.

Sternon, the great bone of the
breast.

Sternutation, sneezing in swift
motion of the brain whereby the
breath is forced out of the nose.

Sternutatories, medicines to
snuff up into the nose to provoke
sneezing.

Stillatitions , distilled liquors,
either waters, vinegar, or any
thing that is capable of drop­
ping.

Stimulates, thrusts forward,
provokes.

Stomachicals, medicines pe­
culiar to the stomach.



Stranguria, the strangury.

Strangulation, choaking.

Strenuously, stoutly.

Stupefactives, medicines that
benumn and stupifie the part
whereto they are applied.

Stupes, pledgets of lint, tow,
or cotton wool.

Stupifying, taking away the
sense of feeling; benumning.

Stuphes, stoves, or hot houses
to sweat in.

Stupid, benumned, besotted,
that hath no feeling or sense.

Stupor, dulness.

Styptick medicines, binders.

Suaveolent, sweet smell.

Subached, kneaded together
with the hands.

Subduction, is an abstraction
of juyces, oyls, and other liquid
matters, by straining, or fil­
tring.

Subeth, Arabum, a sleepy dis­



ease, or dead sleep.

Subject, a Logical term, sig­
nifying any thing that hath some­
what adjoyned, or annexed to
it.

Subjected, put under.

Sublevated, earned upward,
as the vapors and spirits in disti­
lation, or the dew when the Sun
riseth.

Sublimation, is a Chymical
operation, when the elevated
matter in distillation, being car­
ried to the highest part of the
helm, and finding no passage
forth, sticks to the sides there­
of.

Subsident, that which in ex­
tracts and dissolutions settles to
the botom of a thicker consi­
stency than all the rest.

Substitute, put instead.

Subtiliation, the dissolving
and separating the thin parts from



the thick.

Subvertio ventriculi, the de­
struction, or loss of appetite.

Succe, juyce, vital moisture
either of a plant, or of an humane
body.

Suceedaneous, that take place,
or suceed in the room of o­
thers.

Succinum Album, white Am­
ber.

Succinum Citrinum, yellow
Amber.

Succoraceous, juycie.

Sudoroficks, medicines to pro­
cure sweating.

Sudour, sweat.

Suffocated, choak'd, smother­
ed.

Suffocation, stifling, choak­
ing, smothering.

Suffruticious, between a shrub
and an herb.

Suffusion, a spreading upon



any thing:  it's commonly used
to signifie a pin and web in the
eye.

Sugacious, full of juyce.

Sulphur, Brimstone:  it's of a
discussive, healing, drying vir­
ture, good to preserve the natur­
al heat of the body.

Sulphur Philosophorum, God
knows what the Chymists mean
by it: it signifies most common­
ly an universal medicine.

Superfætation, is the concepti­
on of a second child in the womb
before the first be come to the
birth.

Superficial, sleight, shallow,
thin.

Superficies, the out-side of a­
ny thing.

Superfluous, needless, un­
necessary, that doth more hurt
than good.

Suppository, a little knob or



roll of some saltish, sharp, tickl­
ing stuffe that may provoke to
stool being thrust up into the
fundament:  there are also Sup­
positories to be thrust into the
Womb for divers causes.

Suppression, stopping of the
terms.

Suppeditates, affords.

Suppressio Nocturna, the
night-Mare.

Supurated, a tumor is said to
be supurated when it's ripened
ready to break.

Surcles, yong twigs or bran­
ches.

Suspirious, broken winded.

Sutura, is a joyning of bones
or any thing else, as the bones of
the scull are joyned; it signifies
properly a sticking together:  the
sutures of the scull are the seams
thereof where its pieces are joyn­
ed together.



Silvestrian, such things as de­
light to grow in woods.

Symbolical, eminent, distin­
guishing marks or tokens to
know any thing by.

Sympathy, when things agree
one with another by an hidden
property:  it signifies a fellow­
feeling:  also diseases are said to
be by sympathy when the prin­
cipal cause is in some other part
wherewith the part offending
holds a correspondency:  so
pains in the head caused by evil
humors in the stomach are said
to come by sympathy: and sick­
ness of the stomach caused by the
stone with kidnies is a disease of
the stomach by sympathy.

Symptoms, evil dispositions
of the body which depend on,
and accompany a disease, as heat,
thirst, head-ach, want of sleep,
sickness at stomach, fainting,



swooning, &c.

Syncope, swooning, and stru­
ction of all feeling and stirring of
the whole body with extream
faintness.

Synchonochesis, is a joyning
together by a cartilage or gristle.

Synciput, the fore-part of the
head.

Syneurosis, a joyning toge­
ther by a ligament.

Synulottea, medicines to dry
up a sore, or to bring it to a Ci­
catrice.

Systol and Dyastol, are the
motions of the pulse forward and
backward:  the Diastol, is that
which the Artery thrusting it self
forth doth as it were smite upon
the finger of him that feels the
pulse, and the sinking down a­
gain is the Systol.




T

Tabefied, wasted, melted, cor­
rupted, dissolved.

Tabid, wasted, melted, con­
sumed.

Tablets, are the same with
Lozenges, which are medicines
made up in little flat cakes of the
bigness of an half-peny either
round or squar.

Tact, taste.

Tacamahacca, a sweet Gum
whereof Plaisters for the tooth­
ach are usually made.

Talcum, Talc, the oyl Talc
is much magnified in diseases of
the eyes though the thing it self
be scarce known.

Tartarous matter, congealed
hard substances of an acrimoni­
ous sharp nature, and therefore
compared to Tartar of wine, be­
ing coagulated in the joynts it's 
the principal cause of the Gout.



Tartar, Argal, the Lees of
Wine dried, of excellent and
frequent use in Phisick.

Tenasmus, a continual desire
of going to stool though nothing
be voided:  the place of this dis­
ease is the end of the Arse-gut,
hard by the fundament.

Tenuious, thin, slender.

Tenuifolious, thin-leav'd.

Tepour, warmness.

Terenjabin, Manna.

Terra, earth, vulgarly taken
for potters-earth to make lute
of.

Terestrial, earthly, heavy.

Testicles, the stones called
testes, because they witness a man
to be a man:  in the male they
hang out at the roots of the yard
at the bottom of the belly:  but
in women they are within by rea­
son of a colder disposition.



Tertiana, a fever of that name.

Thorax, the chest is called the
middle belly, it is circumscribed
by the ribs and patel bones, and
is separated from the lower belly
by the midrif, and is the seat of
the vital faculty, which hath its
principal residence in the heart.

Tigillum, a melting-pot or
crucible such as Chymists and
Goldsmiths use to melt metals or
make strong calcinations in.

Tile-tree, or Linden-tree, is a
tree that bears a fine sweet blo­
som of frequent use in physick.

Tincture, the virtue or strength
of any medicine drawn forth by
steeping in vinegar, spirit of
wine, or any piercing liquor
whereby the virtue and colour
thereof being retained, the liquor
is called the tincture of such a
plant or simple.

Tonsilla, the kernels growing



within the mouth.

Tonsillarum Inflamatio, the in­
flamation of the Almonds, which
are of an hot and moist nature,
and therefore more subject to in­
flamation, they are most vexed
with this evil who abound with
bloud.

Topical medicines, such as are
outwardly applied to the part
affected, as plaisters, unguents,
oyls, cere-cloaths.

Torcular, a press.

Tormina, fretting or wringing
in the belly or guts.

Torpor, numbness, or stupidi­
ty of the body or mind, the in­
sensibleness of any part.

Torrefaction, the highest de­
gree of Siccation, or rather the
parching or scorching any thing
by the fire, or in an oven.

Tortions, gripings of the sto­
mach or bowels.



Tortura oris, if it be from moi­
sture, is a kind of palsie; if
through dryness, then a kind of
cramp; and is commonly a sign
of death.

Toxicum, a venom or poy­
son wherewith Arrows are poy­
soned.

Tract, place.

Traction, drawing.

Trajection, straining, as cheese
is strained from the whey.

Trafine, an invention of our
famous Chirurgion Mr. Woodal,
it being an instrument by him u­
sed instead of a Trepan, and far
more commodious, as you may
see in his Surgeons Mate.

Translation, the removal of
an humor or disease from one
part of the body to another.

Transmeat, that passeth through
the pores of the body, as through
the bottom of a sieve.



Transmutation, is the chang­
ing of any thing in substance,
colour, or quality:  it's a Chy­
mical term, signifying the con­
verting of one metal into ano­
ther.

Transparent, clear, that may
be seen through; as glass, cry­
stal, horn, fair water.

Transpiration, the breathing
or steeming forth of vapors
through the skin of the whole
body invisibly, only it may be
discerned by the smell, which
differs according to the predomi­
nant humor, some more, others
less offensive.

Transpire, to breath through.

Transudation, sweating through.

Treble quantity, thrice as much.

Tremor trembling, is an invo­
luntary motion of the whole bo­
dy, caused by fear or the appre­
hension of some eminent danger.



Trepan, an instrument where­
with Surgeons (when necessity
requires) take out a piece of the
scull, it being to bore with like
a wimble.

Trient, a third part.

Triture, breaking, crumming,
or grinding.

Troches, or Trochises, medi­
cines made up in little flat bowls
as the name signifies; they are
never taken (for what intention
soever) but they are first dissol­
ved in some convenient liquor.

Tubercles, knobs or swellings
in a mans body.

Tumor, a swelling that riseth
in any part of the body for the
most part, with design to break
forth into an ulcer.

Tundation, stamping, bruising,
or pounding in a mortar.

Tunica reteformis, the net-like
coat, or tunicle of the brain.



Tunicles, little thin coats or
coverings whereof the eye for
the most part doth consist lying
one within another like the scales
of an onion.

Turbinated, round at the top.

Turbith mineral, a certain pre­
paration of quicksilver, much u­
sed in the cure of the French­
pox:  it had need be rightly pre­
pared, or it's very dangerous.

Turgent, swelling, working,
frothing, bubbling, moving to
and fro:  it's usually spoken of
the humors of the body when
they are in combustion and vio­
lent motion.

Tussis, a cough.

Tutia, the scum of copper.

Tympane, the drum of the
ear.

Tympany, a disease wherby the
belly is caused to swell as if the
patient were with child.



Typliodes, a kind of continual
Ague.


V

Validly, strongly.

Vapid, naughty, old, musty.

Vaporous matter, any thing
that is apt to flie up in fume or
steam.

Vapors, steams ascending into
the head like the steam we see
ascend from a boyling pot.

Varices, broken veins in the
legs, or any other part of the
body.

Varicosa, the same with Va­
rices.

Variegated, differenced, sort­
ted into many kinds.

Vasa deferentia, vessels which
carry the seed from the stones
to the instruments of Generati­
on.



Vasa præparantia, vessels
which prepare the blood to be
concocted into seed as they con­
vey it to the stones.

Vehicle, is that liquor, or o­
ther convenient matter, wherein
any medicine is administred, that
it may be the more effectually
carried to the parts of the body
whereto it's intended.

Vena, a vein.

Vena Cava, the great hollow
vein which receives the bloud
from the Liver, and by its bran­
ches distributes it to all parts of
the body.

Vena Comunis, the median
vein, or black vein.

Vena Manifesta, the mother
vein.

Vena Pulsatilis, the pulse vein.

Vena quieta, the bloud veins.

Venery, the act of Love, of
carnal Copulation:  it's usually



put to signifie excess in that
sport.

Venenosity, poysonfulness.

Ventricle of the brain, a certain
hollowness in the head wherein
the brain lies.

Ventriculus, the ventricle, or
the stomach.

Vermicular, worm-like, the
pulse is so called when it's very
weak and feeble and moves un­
equally more or less, much like
the creeping of a caterpillar.

Vertebræ, the little joynt­
bones which serve for the making
up the back-bone, and for the
bending and turning thereof.

Vertex, the top of the head.

Verticulate, turneth round.

Vertigo, a giddiness in the
head, near of kin to the falling
sickness, wherein the head and
all objects seem to turn round,
so that the patient is neither able



to stand nor go, but falls down,
except he lay hold on something
to stay himself upon.

Verrucales-Hemorrhoides, the
Piles or Hemorrhoides.

Vesicæ, biliariæ, the receptacle
of pure choler.

Vesicatories, things applied to
the skin to draw blisters.

Vicissitude, changes, turnings,
of a perpetual succession of chan­
ges.

Vimineous, any thing made
of wicker rods, like a Bas­
ket.

Vinum dilutum, Wine mixt
with water.

Viscid Phlegm, clammy
tough phlegm, roping like bird­
lime.

Viscous, clammy, roping,
tough, like bird-lime.

Visive-Nerve, the nerve that
is the instrument of the visive fa­



culty, or of seeing, whereby the
objects of sight are carried into
the brain to the imagination and
judgment.

Visor, or visive spirits, the
spirits which are the principal
instruments of sight.

Vital Faculty, the faculty of
life, whereof the heart is the prin­
cipal seat of residence: this is the
cause of life, pulse, and breath­
ing.

Vitiligo, a foulness of the
skin with spots of divers co­
lours.  Morphew.

Vitrification, is the violent
calcination of any Calx or
Ashes, till it melt into
Glass.

Vitriol, Copperas.

Vitrous humor, a moisture
like to molten Glass or Chry­
stal, which is a part of the
eye:  you may see it if you



dissect the eye of a Calf or
Sheep.

Vitrum, Glass; it's used to
signifie Glass distilling vessels,
or any other vessels made of
Glass.

Ulcerated, a sore turned to an
ulcer:  a part that hath Ulcers
in it.

Ulcus, an ulcer.

Umbilical Vessels, the Navel
and the parts thereto belonging
which is called Umbilicus from
its Convolutions or foldings
one within another.

Urbane, pleasant.

Urine, both of men and chil­
dren is used in Alchymy, as
also in Physick and Chirurgery
frequently, both externally and
internally.

Unctious, oyly, fatty.

Uncultivated, untill'd.

Universal Evacuation, a ge­



neral purging of the whole body
all at once.

Voluntary faculty, that power
of the body which serves the
Will in disposing the whole
man to any action, as going,
running, speaking, or what­
ever is voluntary and obedient
to the command of our Wills
and may be acted or forborn at
pleasure:  Whereas the powers
of beating in the pulse, of di­
gestion in the stomach or liver,
of motion in the heart, are not
within our own power; and
therefore are termed involunta­
ry.

Vovulus, Iliaca passio, a pain
in the guts, or the cholerick in the
uppermost gut.

Vomitories, medicines to pro­
cure vomiting.

Urachos, the vessell which
conveyes the Urine from the



Child in the Womb to the Al­
lontois.

Ureters, certain long and
very slender pipes or pas­
sages which convey the urine
form the Kidneys to the Blad­
der.

Ureting, pissing.

Urethra, a common passage
of the yard both for seed and
urine.

Ustion, burning or scorch­
ing of any thing whereby it
may the easier be reduced to
pouder.

Usurped, used.

Vulva, a Womans privie
member.

Uvula, the palat of the
mouth.

Uteri Phymosis, straitness of
the Womb, insomuch that it
will not admit of seed, but if
it do, it brings death to the



Woman:  sometimes the yard
of a Man is troubled with
this Phymosis upon the fore­
skin.

Uvea Tunica, a Coat of
the Eye, resembling the skin
of a Grape, whence it hath its
name.

Vulneral, Medicines belong­
ing to Wounds, viz. Plai­
sters, Salves, &c.  And in­
ward Potions, Diet-Drinks,
&c.


W

Warmth, heat.

Watry Humor, A certain
Humor resembling fair Wa­
ter in the Composition of the
Eye.

Watergate, a Womans privie
member.

Whites in Women, is a flux of 



filthy corrupt stuff, from their
privities.

Womb-fury, a lustful desire.

Womb-Imperforated, such as
Virgins have, like a barrel of
beer unboared till it have a spigot
put in it.


Z

Zanie, a foolish imitator to
a Tumbler:  the familiar of a
Witch.

Zachariæ flos, the blue-bottle.

Zacutus Lusitanus, a Jew that
practizing Physick at Amster­
dam, became very famous in his
Art:  there are many Pieces of
his in Print: he was of the
Gallenical way, & not unlearned.

Zarsa parilla, the Root of
rough Bindweed, brought us
from Spain and Peru, where it
had this name given it.



Zedoary, a certain Root
brought to us from beyond Sea,
sold at the Druggists.

Zenith, that part of the Hea­
vens which is direct over our
heads.

Zyrbus, Barbarorum, the caul
or suet wherein the bowels are
wrapt.



FINIS.