Fonticulus excitetur incisione Let an issue be pro (vel ferro, vel vesicatorio, vel medicamento caustico, vel cauterio, vel ferro ignito). Fiat fonticulus purulentus, in interstitiis musculorum brachii; ope ferri vel caustici. Fiat fonticulus in musculorum duorum interstitio ad prohibendum dolorem quo impeditur facilis motus. Sit fonticulus inter musculum Sartorium et Vastum internum (vel inter principia musculi Gastrocnemii, vel interstitio musculi Deltoidis et Bicipitis). duced by incision (by the lancet, by a vesicatory, by caustic, or by the cautery). Let an issue be made between [i. e. in the interstices of] the muscles of the arm; by the lancet or caustic. Let an issue be made between [i. e. in the interstices of] two muscles, to avoid pain, which would impede easy motion. Let an issue be made between the Sartorius and Vastus internus muscles (or between the heads of the Gastrocnemius, or between [i. e. in the interstice] of the Deltoid and Biceps muscles). Fascia pro fonticulis in bra- A bandage for issues chio (vel femore, vel surâ). Setaceum*. Acus; acus ferrea, CELS. Acus pro setaceo. in the arm (thigh, Inseratur setaceum nuchæ Let a seton be in capitis. Acu idoneâ serici fasciculum ducente perforetur cutis colli posterioris partis, serico in vulnere relicto; ut fiat diuturna suppuratio. Quoties pus effundi cessaverit (vel hâc deficiente) illinatur sericum unguento Sabinæ. serted in the nape of the neck. Let the skin at the back part of the neck be perforated by a proper needle carrying a skein of silk; the silk being left within the wound to excite a constant discharge of pus. Whenever the pus ceases to be discharged (or when the pus is deficient in quantity), let the silk be anointed with Savine ointment. From seta, a bristle, or horse-hair; because horsehairs were first used to keep open the wound. Acus admovere, CELS. To apply a needle. Acu1apprehendere, transuere, To 'take hold of, 2sow 3trajicere, CELS. Cutem candentibus ferramentis exulcerare, CELS. Non, ut primum fieri potest, ulcera sanare, CELS. Tum, qua notæ sunt, cutis acu filum ducente transuitur, ejusque fili capita inter se deligantur, quotidieque id movetur, donec circa foramina cicatriculæ fiant, CELS. through, traverse, -with a needle. To make ulcers in the skin by hot irons [i. e. by the actual cautery]. Not to heal the ul cers as soon as possible. Then, where the marks are, the skin is pierced by a needle carrying a thread, and the two ends of this thread are tied together, and the thread is moved daily until smal! Acupunctura.* The acupuncture. SECT. 8.-De electricitatet, Of Electricity, &c. 1Electricitas; aura electrica; 1Electricity [the cause &c. 3fluida electrica; virtus of electrical phe festucarum trahax. [This nomena]; 2the elec last phrase occurs in some tric aura; the elec Latin Dictionaries.] tric fluid; the force attracting straws. *Acupunctura, from acus, a needle, and pungo, I prick, Nearly all the words in this section are of modern origin, and necessarily so: for, with a few exceptions, electrical phenomena are of modern discovery, and the language of the ancients is incompetent to express them. The Greeks and Romans were acquainted with the attractive power which amber acquired by being rubbed; and, as the Greeks called amber nλékтpov, and the Latins, electrum, Dr. Gilbert (in his Tractatus de Magnete, Lond. 1600,) called all bodies which manifested a similar attractive power, electrics. The word electricity was soon after introduced to indicate the power which electrics thus evinced. It occurs in the writings both of Sir Thomas Browne (Inquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, Lond. 1646), and the Hon. Robert Boyle (Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Electricity, 1676). It was used in a Latin form (electricitas), by Euler (Disquisitio de causa physica electricitatis Petropoli [1755]; by Epinus (Tentamen theore electricitatis et magnetismi, Petropoli [1751]; by Beccaria (Experimenta atque observationes quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur atque explicatur, Augustæ Taurinorum [1769]), and by many other writers of the last century. The word electrisatio was employed in the last century by Bohadsch (Dissertatio de utilitate electrisationis in arte medica, Praga [1751]). 1Trahere in se (said by PLINY To attract [electri of the action on straws, &c. of amber when rubbed): 2rapere ad se (said by the same author of the action of the Lyncurium [Tourmaline?] on straws and metallic plates. cally]; to draw to or towards; 2to take suddenly, to catch at. 1Torpere; torpescere; 3ob- 1To be numbed or torpere (PLINY uses all Electricitas positiva; nega- Machina electrica. benumbed ; 2to grow torpid or benumbed; to grow numb. Electrization (the act of electrifying). Electricity positive; negative. Electricity obtained by friction (of glass, sulphur, resinous bodies,&c.); friction electricity. An electric machine. |