The London medical dictionary: including, under distinct heads, every branch of medicine, viz. anatomy, physiology, and pathology, the practice of physic and surgery, therapeutics, and materia medica ; with whatever relates to medicine in natural philosophy, chemistry, and natural history (Volume 2).

  • Parr, Bartholomew, 1750-1810.
Date:
1819
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    often with hcctica, frequently wilh a swcU- injj of the abdomen. Order VIII. PARANOL.E. Violentor irregular ex- ertion of the different corporeal or mental functions, often alternating with languor and depression of body or mind. Genus I. Morositas. Violent or irregular derange- ments of the appetite, occasionally of di- gestion. Sp. 1. Bulimia. A craving appetite for a la;ger pro- portion of food than the stomach can digest, or oflener than the system requires. Var. « Hclluo7ium. From indulgence of glut- tony. ... /3 Synco/ialis. From a sense of inanition. y Convalescentium. After fevers, or ex- cessive discharges. 2. Pica. An aversion to common food, and an eager desire for substances not esculent or alimentary. Var. » Chiorotica. Attending amenorrhoea, often about the age of puberty. /3 Pregnantium. The pica of pregnancy. y Afrorum. Cachexia, Africana, dirt eat- ing ; a disease of negroes in Jamaica. 3. Hyfiochondriasis. Dyspepsia with costive- ncss, fancies irregular, mind desponding. Var. X A'ostalgia. Hypochondriasis, w ith a longing for home, when in a foreign country. Genus II. Hallucinatio. Violent or irregular sexual passions. Sp. 1. Satyriasis. Violent and excessive lust, with priapism. 2. J^^'ymfihomania. Satyriasis of females, with in- flammation of the nymphae. ?•.. Erotomania. Chaste love in excess, when the object is unattainable ; with melancholy, sleeplessness, and often hectic. Genus III. Vesaxia. Irregular exertion of the men- tal functions, occasionally with excess of excitement, sometimes of depression; without coma or fever. Sp. 1. Melancholia. Depression of the mental pow- ers with erroneous judgment, though in general .with correct perceptions, without dyspepsia. Alunia. Erroneous perceptions or judgment, often of both ; with great violence. Var. et Mentalis. Apparently from passions of the mind only. /3 Metastatica. From repelled eruptions, gout, or obstructed discharges. y Venenata. From narcotic poisons, pa- raphrosyneauctorum. VanHelmont. Oneirodynia. Disturbed sleep, sometimes with an imagination peculiarly active, at others, with a sense of oppression. Var. » Activa. Sonambulism. /3 Gravans. Ephialtes, night mare. Order IX. CACHEXI.£. A change in the colour of 3. NOS the skin, generally from a chemical change in the nature of the fluids. Genus I. Sp. Impetigo. body. Scorbutus. A change of colour in the whole Livid spots over the whole body, particularly at the roots of the hair, with great loss of strength, and blecdmg from the gums; generally from food not alimen- tary, p ., Var. cc Xautarum. The scurvy of sailors on long voyages, without a supply ot vegetables. /3 Asthenica. Occurring in besieged towns, or from poor living in con- fined apartments without exercise. 2. Syphilis. Spots sometimes level with the skin, but occasionally rising in small tubercles, particularly at the roots of the hair, dege- nerating into crusty ulcers; pains in the middle of the bones, particularly when warm in bed, with exostosis; generally af- ter some local complaint of the genitals. 3. Aurigo. A dark yellowness of the skin, with dyspepsia, generally terminating in dropsy; stools natural; urine not tinging linen yellow. 4. Phgnigmus. Redness of the skin, either dif- fused or in spots; without fever. 5. Melasma. A dark blue or purple colour of the skin, generally with dyspnoea and pal- pitation, from the blood not flowing freely through the lungs. 6. Rubigo. A general redness of the skin: of- ten with coma. Genus II. Macula. A partial change of colour. Sp, 1. £ccAz/moszs. A blue colour in particular parts, sometimes black, changing to a brown and yellow ; from fluids effused in consequence of a bruise. 2. J\''(evus. Irregular marks on the skin, some- times of a bright red, at other times yellow or brown, absurdly attributed to the mo- ther's longing. , Order X. INTUMESCENTItE. Enlargement of the whole body, or of particular parts. § I. Total. Sp. 1. Polysarcia. General enlargement, usually from accumulated fat. § II. Partial. 2. Rachitis. Bones of the joints enlarged, head swollen, particularly in front; with phys- conia. 3. Exostosis. See Periostea. 4. Physconia. Enlargement of the abdomen, without fluctuation. Var. a Hcfiatica. A hard tumour in the right hypochondrium, verging towards, and sometimes appearing at, the pit of the stomach. /3 Splenica. A little below the false ribs, on the left side, and towards thlp spine of that side*