Iliac Paffion, a kind of nervous Cholic, wherein the Colon is twisted, or one Part enters the Cavity of the other.

Inappetency, a Lofs or Want of Appetite.

Impotency, the Inability of Males to impreg nate the Females, from a Weakness of the Genital Parts.

Incubus, the Night-Mare or Afthma, proceeding from fome Obftruction of the Blood-Veffels in the Thorax, or of Respiration.

Inflammation, a Swelling with great Heat and

Pain.

Intermittent Fevers. See Ague.

Ifchias, the Hip-Gout.

Ifchury, a Stoppage of Urine, by Stone, Gravel, &c.

Itch, a Cutaneous Diftemper, proceeding from fharp Humours which corrode the Miliary Glands.

Lentigo, a freckly or fcurfy Eruption upon

the Skin.

Leprofy, a dry, white, fcabby Eruption in the Manner of Scales on the Skin.

Lethargy, a Diftemper attended with the Lofs of the rational, at least the retentive Faculties of the Mind, and an Inaptitude to Motion.

Leucorrbæa, the Fluor albus, or Whites in Women.

Lientery, a Loofenefs wherein the Aliments are voided with little or no Alteration.

Lipothymy, a Fainting, or Swooning away.
Lithiafis, the Stone or Gravel.

Lues Venerea, the Pox, or Foul Disease.
Lumbago, troublesome Pains about the Loins.
Lunacy, a kind of Frenzy, or Disorder of
Mind.

Madness is a Delirium without a Fever, or State of Mind wherein the Ideas are receiv'd

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without any natural Order or Coherence, and produce uncommon Effects.

Malacia, a deprav'd Appetite.

Mania. See Madness..

Melancholy, a dull and gloomy Difpofition arifing from too heavy and vifcid a Blood, and Paucity of Animal Spirits.

Mealles. See Small-Pox.

Miafm, a contagious Scent from Diseases, &c.
Miferere Mei, fharp Cholicky Pains, so call'd.
Morphew, the Freckles.

Myopy, Purblindness.

Naufea, a Loathing of Food, &c.

Nebula, Films or little Clouds in the Eye.
Nephritis, the Stone in the Kidneys.

Noli-me-tangere, a very fore tetterous Eruption.
Obftructions, Stoppages in the Veffels of any

fort.

Ophthalmy, an Inflammation of the Tunica Adnata of the Eye, attended with Rednefs, Heat, Pain, Swelling, arifing from a Stagnation of the Blood in the capillary Arteries.

Orthopnea, a great Difficulty of Breathing.

Pain is an uneafy Senfation arifing from a Solution of the Continuity of the Parts of Nerves and Fibres, which is proper to their natural and found State.

Palpitation, a Beating, a Panting of the Heart. Palfy is a Privation of Motion, or Sense of Feeling, or both, proceeding from fome Cause below the Cerebellum, join'd with a Coldness, Softnefs, Flaccidity, and at last a Wafting of the Parts.

Peripneumony, an Inflammation of fome Parts of the Thorax, which occafions great Pain, and Shortness of Breath, and generally goes off by Expectoration, &c. Pernio,

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Pernio, a Kibe or Chilblane.

Peftis, the Plague or Peftilence, which fee. Phrenitis, the Phrenfy, which is a Species of Madness.

Phthifis, the Phthific, a Waste or Confumption of the Body, very various both as to its Caufes and Kinds.

Piles. See Hemorrhoids.

Plague is the moft malignant, acute, and mor tal of all the Nervous Fevers; and is communicated by Contagion.

Plethora is when the Humours are fecreted in too great an Abundance, or beyond what a healthy State requires.

Pleurify, an Inflammation of the Pleura, proceeding from a Stagnation of Blood, and producing very intense Pain.

Poifon, a moft virulent, corrofive, and deftructive Quality in feveral Things, caufing great Swelling, Pain, and Death.

Pox, a Difeafe, defervedly, though too well, known.

Quartan, a third Day's Ague.

Quinfey, an Inflammation of the Jaws and Throat.

Rheumatism, a Diftemper of the common Membrane of the Mufcles, which makes it rigid; and unfit for Motion, without great Pain.

Rickets, a Diftemper in Children proceeding from an unequal Diftribution of Nourishment; which makes the Joints grow knotty, and the Limbs uneven.

Scab. See Itch.

Scrophula, the King's-Evil; and proceeds from an Obftruction and Erofion of the Glands. Scurvy, a Difcafe proceeding from a Blood unequally fluid, and fomewhat corrofive.

Shingles, a kind of corrofive, cutaneous Inflam

mation.

Small-Pox, a contagious Diftemper breaking out on the Skin in numerous Puftules, which ripen into a Scab.

Squinancy, the fame as Quinfey.

Sterility, Barrennefs, which arifes from various. Causes.

Stiches, acute Pains in the Side.

Stone, a Concretion of the harder Parts of the Urine in the Bladder.

Strangury, a Difficulty of Urine attended with a continual Dripping.

Struma, an Induration of the Glands; the King's-Evil.

Surfeit. See Crapula.

Syncope, a fudden Fainting or Swooning away. Tabes, a Confumption, or Decay of Mufcular Flesh.

Tenefmus, a continual Inclination to go to Stool, but ineffectual.

Tentigo,a continued painful Erection of the Yard.
Tertian, an Ague intermitting but one Day.
Tremor, an involuntary trembling of the Nerves.
Tumor, any kind of Swelling.

Tympany, the Dropfy which fwells the Abdomen like a Drum.

Vapours, the Disorders of the Vifcera of the Hypochondria.

Vertigo, Giddinefs; a Disorder of the Brain, wherein Things at reft appear to move round. Ulcer, any running Sore.

Vomiting, a cafting up the Contents of the Stomach, from an Irritation or Vellication of its Coats. Whites. See Gonorrhea.

Xerophthalmia, a Diftemper otherwife call'd the dry Lippitude, where the Eye-Lids turn out red and dry.

SURGERY.

Pernio, a Kibe or Chilblane.

Peftis, the Plague or Peftilence, which fee. Phrenitis, the Phrenfy, which is a Species of Madness.

Phthifis, the Phthific, a Waste or Confumption of the Body, very various both as to its Caufes and Kinds.

Piles. See Hemorrhoids.

Plague is the moft malignant, acute, and mortal of all the Nervous Fevers; and is communicated by Contagion.

Plethora is when the Humours are fecreted in too great an Abundance, or beyond what a healthy State requires.

Pleurify, an Inflammation of the Pleura, proceeding from a Stagnation of Blood, and producing very intense Pain.

Poifon, a moft virulent, corrofive, and deftructive Quality in feveral Things, caufing great Swelling, Pain, and Death.

Pox, a Difeafe, defervedly, though too well, known.

Quartan, a third Day's Ague.

Quinfey, an Inflammation of the Jaws and

Throat.

Rheumatifm, a Diftemper of the common Membrane of the Mufcles, which makes it rigid; and unfit for Motion, without great Pain.

Rickets, a Distemper in Children proceeding from an unequal Diftribution of Nourifhmert; which makes the Joints grow knotty, and the Limbs uneven.

Scab. See Itch.

Scrophula, the King's-Evil; and proceeds from an Obftruction and Erofion of the Glands. Scurvy, a Difeafe proceeding from a Blood unequally fluid, and fomewhat corrofive.