A General and Compleat Treatise on All the Diseases Incident to Children

GLOSSARY,

OR,

An EXPLANATION of the Terms of Art contained in this Treatife.

Bdomen, the belly.

Abdominal, of, or be Brunella, the herb felf

longing to the belly. Abfcefs, an impofthume, or gathering of matter. Acefcent, growing fower. Althea, the herb marshmall

OWS.

Anchylofis, an immoveablenefs of a joint, with a hard tu

mor.

Annuli, little ringlets.
Anodynes, medicines which
allay pain.
Anthelmintic medicines, fuch
as destroy worms.
Antiafthmatic medicines, fuch
as are good against the
afthma.

Antifeptics, medicines which refiit putrefaction. Antifpafmodics, medicines

which hinder contractions. Aorta, the largest artery in the body, immediately connected to the heart.

Argillaceous, clayey, like clay. Articulation, the joining of two parts together, fo as to be moveable; a joint. Aftringents, binding medicines. Attenuants, fuch medicines as thin the blood.

Cuticula, the outward cover Gland, a fleshy fubstance which

ing of the skin.
Cutis, the skin.
Cyclamen, the herb fow-bread.
Cylindrical tube, a round, long,
hollow pipe.

ftrains a liquor; thus the
glands in the mouth fepa-
rate the spittle; the sweet-
bread another kind of li-
quor. See Pancreas.
Glottis, the opening of the
wind pipe.

Deglutition, a fwallowing
Dentes Canini, the dog-teeth, Hod.

down.

or eye-teeth.

Dentes Incifivi, the fore-teeth.
Dentes molares, the jaw-teeth,
or grinders.

Dentition, cutting of teeth.
Diarrhea, a looseness.
Dura Mater, the outward co-
vering of the brain.

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Metic, vomitive.

E the cawl.

Fructation, a windy belching.
Erysipelas, a red, painful fwell-
ing of the fkin; St. An-
thony's fire.

Eryfipelatous, of, or belonging

to an Eryfipelas.
Exoftafis, a fwelling of a bone.

AEces, excrements; alfo
any filth or naftiness.
Femur, the thigh.
Franum lingua, the bridle of

the tongue.

Fungous flesh, flesh like a
fpunge, which arifes in
wounds.

Emorrhage, any flux of blood. > Haemorrhoidal blood, the blood contained in the veins of the great gut. Hepatitis, a pain in the liver. Hernia umbilicalis, a navel

rupture. Hydrocephalus, a dropfy in the

head.

Hypochondrium, the uppermoft part of the belly, under the cheft.

Hypogaftrium, the lower belly,

Diopathic difeafe which

neither depends on nor proceeds from any other. Iliac paffion, a stoppage of the guts, with violent pain. Impetus, force. Infarction, a ftuffing up of the veffels.

Aftric juice, the juice of
the ftomach.
Germina, buds; the upper part
of a tooth, which is break.
ing through the gums.

Inguinal, of or belonging to
the groin.
Infpiffated, thickened.
Inteftinal, belonging the in-

teftines, or guts. Inteftines, the guts.

Lamina, a thin plate. Larynx, the upper part of the wind-pipe. Lentor, fliminefs, an indifpofition of the juices to circulate. Ligature, a binding, as of the arm with a fillet, in bleeding. Lippitude, a diforder of the eyes, in which they feel rough, as if fand was in them.

Lues Venerea, the Frenchpox.

Lymph, a thin, clear liquor, which is feparated by the glands. Lymphatic veffels, those which separate or convey lymph.

Arafmus, a confuming

fever.

Meconium, the black excrements of a foetus, which remain in the guts after birth. Medulla spinalis, the marrow of the back bone.

Menftruation, time of, womens monthly difcharge. Mucus, a thick humour which

-lines the ftomach, &c.

medicines

Arcotics, which abate pain. Nephritis, pain in the reins or kidneys.

Node, an elevation, or rifing of any part without inflam

mation.

Non-naturals, air, meat, drink, fleep, motion, reft, retention and excretion, and the paffions of the mind.

Pancreas,

Ancreas, the sweet-bread; a gland in the belly which conveys liquor to the guts to allay the gall. Pancreatic juice, the liquor of this gland. Paroxyfm, a fit. Parotids,glands behind the ear. Pericranium, the hairy fcalp,

or skin which covers the fcull.

Periofteum, the skin that im

mediately covers the bones. Peristaltic motion, the natural notion of the guts. Perniones, chilblains. Phagedanic, eating, corroding. Pharynx, the upper part of the gullet. Phlegmon, a hard, painful tu

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Spina dorf, the edge of the

back-bone.

Stimulus, any thing that occafions pain.

Sutures, the joinings of the bones of the head.

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