Quincy's Lexicon medicum. A new medical dictionary ... To which is added, a glossary of obsolete terms from Castelli, Blanchard, Quincy, James, etc / [Revised] By R. Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835
Date:
1802
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Credit: Quincy's Lexicon medicum. A new medical dictionary ... To which is added, a glossary of obsolete terms from Castelli, Blanchard, Quincy, James, etc / [Revised] By R. Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A NEW MEDICAL DICTIONARY. | ail ill n i ■WMBBBWMBMBBMMBWMSMaaBaBaMgMBai A B AAA, ANA, (ana, from ena9 which iignihes of each ). A ^ term in pharmacy. It is never ufed but after the mention of two or more ingredients, when it im- plies that the quantity mentioned of each ingredient (hould be taken, e. g. R. Sal nitri. -puliu—Sacchar. alb. bid 3j. i.e. take fait of nitre powdered, and white fugar, of each one drachm. Abbreviation,/' Abbreviatio, on is, f.). The principal ufes of medicinal abbreviations are in prefcriptions; in which they are certain marks, or half words ufed by phyficians for difpatch and conveniency when they prefcribe, thus—R readily fupplies the place of recipe—h. s. that of bora fomni—n. m. that of nucis mofchata—elebl. that of tleftarium, &c. and in general all the , names of compound medicines, with the feveral ingredients, are frequently wrote only up to their firlt or fecond fyllable, or fometimes to their third or fourth, to make them clear and exprefiive. Thus Croc. Anglic. Hands for Crocus Anglicanus—Con/'. Aromat, for ConfeRio Aromatic a, See. A point being always placed at the end of fuch fyllables in medicine, (hews the word to be incomplete. Abdomen, (Abdomen, inis, n. from abdo to hide, becaufe it hides the vi- fcera. It is alfo derived from abdere to hide, and omentum t the caul; and aB by others It Is laid to be only a term?* nation, 'as from lego, legumen, fo from abdo, abdomen). The abdomen is the larged; cavity in the body, bounded fuperiorly by the.diaphragm, by which it is feparated from the chert: ; infe-* i'iorly by the bones of the pubis and [fcbium ; on each fide by various mu- i'cles, the fhort ribs and ilii; an** teriorly ‘ by the abdominal rriufcles, and porteriorly by the vertebrae of the loins, the os facrum and os coccygis* Internally it is inverted by a fmooth membrane called peritoneum, and ex- ternally by mufcles and common in- teguments. In the cavity of the abdomen ace contained 1. Anteriorly and laterally. 1. The mefentery. 2. The epiploon. 3. The rtomach. 4. The large and fmall inteftmes. 5. The la&eal velfels. 6. The pancreas. 7. The i'pleen. 8. The liver and gall bladder. 2. Pojteriorly, 'Without the peritoneum are * 1. The kidneys. 2. The fupra renal glands. 3. The ureters. 4. The receptacuhim chyll. 5. The defeending aorta. 6. The afeending vena cava. B '