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Show 128 An EXPLANATION of the TERMS of ART. OfMEDrCINES zifid 2'72 SURGERY. Dersnsrvs OPHTHALMICS are Olz'bammz, Myrrh, Sugar-candy, and white Vitiiol. Des; CCATIVE OPUTH ALMICS are, the compound Powder of Ceiui's, Tutty, Lime-water, and Sacc/mrum Saturm'. In all the Llafies of ivledicines, fuch are to be chofen as are warranted by Experience and Analogy? and as are molt agreeable to the Age, Sex, and other Circumltances of the Patient. They are combined, mixt, and prel‘crihed under dillerent Fanny/4', called Cataplahns, Fomcntations, Embrocations, Pomatums, Liniments, Injections, Lotions, Furnigations, digefiive Ointments, Collyriums, and Gargarifms. To thefe mav be added Bleeding, Leeches, Cupping, Bliflers, Setons, Glyllers, Suppofitories, Bougies, prepared Sponge, Baths, and mineral Waters. Thefe different Helps and Allillances, though {ome Wlll hardly allow them to be called Medicines, may be properly ufed as fuch ; for they certainly act upon the Fluids by evacuating and altering the Humour-s, and upon the Solids, in relaxing them or encrealing their Spring. I {hall defer the giving Examples of (Sample/2m, Fla/fem, 85c. becaule they will be inferted hereafter in a compmdz‘am Diffezgfiitoiy, among other Re- medies of every Kind, and (hall proceed to give fome Account of Bleeding, Cupping, &C, purulent matter, unlcfs it attends a dyl'entcry, or other flux of the belly. ‘Jln‘élmliz'm, Turpentine. Tyres/[w Rsrrlzzzz'ris xii/0r, arifes from the interior 21:1;le of the fella/a, and termi. " 1 nates tnree fingers ioreadth be.ow the head of thc bilme'i'us. . Terr'rfim Rofiiitujfls y, arifcs from the inferior in t. of thefmipu/a, and afterwards making one tendon with the m- f/afpizruiur, is inl'erted into the poflcrior part of the neck of the lumen". Terra fir/GEM. 12,]apan earth. Iii/{Pm Fri/1's I‘lli‘ii‘fili‘lt'ffili, fee Fifi/1': [crill/[\fld. ‘Tiflrr mulfcbrcr, the Ovaries. Tc/fc: (Si'i/irz',ai'e two poi'lerier prominences of the brain. ‘I‘r/m «vii-F/rs, are the two oval bodies in~ eluded in theft-ram»; which {erve for the generation Offlim'h'. Ts'mm/r, is a very grievous kind of convul- lion, whereby the body continues ercfl: and rigid like a frame. ‘Tflzidol the fame as talfzz. Yii‘i'apl'uirmarum, is a medicine conhi'ling of Of oi/yrr EXTERNAL REMEDIES. {our ingi (lients. The Eilicé‘ts which are produced from thefe exierna/ Remedies, properly tiled, are very {alutary, and therefore I {hall give agenerlrz/ Idea of them, and mention what Succour may be reafonably expected from them. BLLEDZNC, or ly'liNfl'SECTlON, in various Difeafes is a prel'ent Reme- dy, and in many Cafes exceeds all others. But as it is lomezimes hurtful, it requires the greateli Care and Caution in its Adminillration. It 13 €- vident, that many grievous and dangerous Diieal'cs proceed merely from a Rcdundance of Blood; as allo from a Deficiency ofthoi/e critical Evacuations which in women are made by the Uterus, in T's/zen by the Immorrljoi'a'a/ Vein: ; for :1 P/el/Jw‘a. either with Relpeét to the Veli'els or the Strength, retards the free and equable Circulation of the Blood, and tends to collect the [mpzirz'zies ofthe Humours, to caufe [so/file Szgnaizaiir, Inflzrflz'om, Oliflrziflz'om, andfatn/ Sta/er, as well as Extravalations and Ruptures of the Veffels. Plenty of Blood refills the contraé‘iiic and elallic Force of the Heart, Arteries, and other Velfels. Whencc proceed ipfllllc Strié‘tures and Congel‘cions of the Blood in the noble Parts, which prOdUCC gl‘ie‘vom Di'éu'ffl'r in the Head, Brew , and Prrtwra'itz, all which are p"; vented by fin/ei stile and jlslflfiauJ Bleeding, unlefs the Blood is carried on by the Eliza/m or the Hemorrhoids, for then it is filperliuous. . . The 1'5)?le Egzu'xcx is generally the heft Sealon for filming, but1 It may fometimes be anticipated when the Spring is forward, and tin, Warmth of the Air caules a Turgeicence of the Blood Some bleedvat the autumnal Egziz'nox, lell the Blood lhould grow thick and foul from the TAD/am m" ‘2‘}‘1/771 CIIIIIL'EJ‘JIM, two protuberances of the brain,from whence the optic nerves have been laid to arife ; but Hofimn denit. ‘t and affirms that they proceed from t) inferior and anterior part of the (rum of the mica/lg: ably/i- £11.71. The root purge" upwards and downwards, but it But-if the ell /g- 3'90"" is urgent; there is no Neeefiity of waiting for any particular cea- ion, efpecially if the Weather is calm and ferene. .. d When the Blood is too little in Quantity, attended with Wealtnefs, an» 3509/0411, meal, and /ngz.'irl, Bleeding‘is dangerous, But fomeiinlie": ,i. w; acquaintance with theltruéturc of a hu~ mm body. It was formerly {aid that aflronomy and anatom y were the two eyes or medicine, and tho mer is not of to muc ugh the forh tile as it "Ill thought to be formtrly , yet it might not to be entirely rejected, becaufeiti'upplics us With accurate talilcs of the moon‘s progrefs through the ("€ch figns upon which a great many morbid motions depend. However natural philofo‘: phy is now properly firfli ltS‘ room, I mean that tuted in philoibphy which includes chemiilry and me- chanics: For all the real iins which .1 pliy ficinn hrin;s,unli'is they are phy fical or anatomical, are mer e lpcculatiuns and the idle inventions of :1 i'ruiti'ul erlll. Though at the ilune tim e it mull lie ac- knowledged \'.'c are in the dark with rclpecl to many things whi ch relate t) a‘humrin bod). of which the various 0- pinions (‘liphylicians about them is acouVincmg proof. 7A rJ/n‘ilxci', Therapeut ics, is a part trim!" dicmc which teach". the rule; that an: to he obfei \t'ii in tin ic oi‘dfcal'cs. 771c'r,;rm‘liot natural b l‘iS. (Iii/422', Trestle or mituii'itc Mufl Jrrl - .‘I‘v I" o . '1 he feeds promote urine and the Mun/i1, coagulatad blood. (/gf: is from one lii‘uiile to tho. The 1:: chief ufe is in Mix/"ma? and lim it» [Mar/B. This has a gentle afirit'lion, whereby it tlrerigtlicn: the flomach, and prevents the hot vsuter from relaxing it too much. It likeuifl: tends to rellore the tone and ol‘cillatitvit (if the fibres. It is not improper in fluxes otthc belly, for it will Prop the apt :ion ti .1 gentle purge. Drank late at nipht it will prevent fleep. The com‘ nt tile ofit "ill hinder the breeding ntw t . nravel ; but that perhaps may be 0 g to the hot Water diliiilviug the {alts of the blood. In a loofencfs 1 the bloody-flux halt-an ounce of tea mufl lie infill-Ml in a pint of Irilk, and l~<t (l :11 " ' ‘f/t‘ntzi'. II‘ill'i . trunl'veifv lig. . of the ' ' ' (fig/[His is a comprei'lion of the mill-l: lion: an internal Caui‘c, {o as to dcllroy their Cavity; Tim-Jilin, are peflnml medicines. 7Z-ti-Jx. This is the mititile 7- IN or hel- ly. It is circuml'cribed on c: upper part by the clavicle. or ("llarliuii (.0n the loner by the (if iphi 1.5m, on lb: 102'; part by tlzr/J'.n- ,x, on the l .h tlic, bones ol the l‘ilL'li, and. mi tlxi‘ Lira by the ribs. lungs. ‘Tlmr mii/i It contains the llUJlItllltl the fee Olyi'Jrjaii finm the 5 the hours iiir,ariil is inferred into the hill and formidp/f‘iI/dizt'. Coldnels of the Air and the Inclemency oftlie Section. knOWledge of all corporeal {UllllJann . "5 1111i) anatomy which viclds an iliflfll'lattf and dillolve 'Tilvipjz'a, the deadly Carrot. 5" ral philo{0phy, \i-hjch lends us to a 'J‘zwznli, Theory ; is the knowledge of all thole thin 3 \iliiL' ' :g to :1 human hotly either in ho. . OHS 'o difiufl's; which can never be pcrfcc't without under-flaming intu- ‘lumc. Thole are . .L'i‘h.,.;iil the v: Ul-tllL‘nl helps diuefiion i. b ' attrmuztts t i‘LkrllJ humnrs y 7 good in the a linm and ili'itng-iiiens the brain. The {177715.11 :i'.' is good to flrengthen the iloniath, te‘wfc tl.; Non, |