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  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    &c. Naval Architecture, or Ship-Building; is that whichteaches the construction of ships, galleys, and other floating vessels for the water; with ports, moles, docks, &c. on the shore. See VESSEL, SHIP, GALLEY, BOAT, &c. see also Mole, Dock, &c....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS

    rising above their own Level between the Surfaces of nearly contiguous Bodies, or in slender capillary Glass Tubes, or in Vessels filled with Sand, Ashes, or the like porous Substance, See FLUID. This Effect happens as well in vacuo as in the open Air,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    Angle which the secretory Duct makes with the Trunk of the Artery. For all Fluids press the Sides of the containing Vessels in a Direction perpendicular to its Sides; which is evident in the Pulsation of the Arteries, it being to that Pressure that the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASCENDINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENDING

    Anatomy, is applied to such Vessels as carry the Blood upwards, or from lower to higher Parts of the Body. See BLOOD and VESSEL. The Ascending Aorta, Aorta ascendens, is the superior Trunk of the Artery, which furnishes the Head. See Aorta. The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    AVERAGE, AVERAGIUM, in Law, that Duty or Service which the Tenant is to pay the King, or other Lord, by his Beasts and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    ÆOLIPILE, Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See WIND. This...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    AEOLIPILE, Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See Wind. This...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • Anatomyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy

    Adductor, Erector, Depressor, Deltoides, Sartorius, Cucullaris, Orbicularis, Sphincter, &c. Their Tendons, Fibres, &c. Vessels, as Artery, Aorta, Aspera, Trachea, Pulmonary, &c. Veins, as Cava, Porta, Jugular, Carotid, &c. Glands, as Pancreas,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Adductor, Erector, Depressor, Deltoides, Sartorius, Cucullaris, Orbicularis, Sphincter, &c. Their Tendons, Fibres, &c. Vessels, as Artery, Aorta, Aspera, Trachea, Pulmonary, &c. Veins, as Cava, Porta, Jugular, Carotid, &c. Glands, as Pancreas,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • AGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGUE

    giving the Blood a greater Momentum; and the second, by its corrugating the Nerves, and rendering the Contractions of the Vessels more brisk and forcible. Hence also its Effects upon such as are apt to sweat immoderately. AGUE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    deal of Sulphur and Vitriol, not to be taken away but by Calcination or Distillation. The Matter remaining in the Iron Vessels used in separating the Sulphur from the Mineral, being exposed to the Air for some time, becomes a kind of bluish Ashes, which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    Shops. The third is the most impure, the blackest, and the strongest.—It was formerly used by the Indians to pitch their Vessels withal: and is of little Use among us, excepting for Horses and Cattle; for which reason it is called Caballine,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • ARACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARACK

    of its peculiar and agreeable flavour, is preferred to all the other Arracks of India. This is attributed to the earthen vessels, which alone they use at Goa to draw the spirit; whereas at Batavia they use copper stills. The Pariar Arrack, made at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    which is widest, and usually highest, and the water under it deepest: being intended for the passage of boats or other vessels. We read of bridges in the East, which consist of 300 arches. Arch-Stone. See KEY-STONE. Triumphal Arch, is a gate, or passage...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    Duct, in 1651. See RECEPTACULUM CHYLI, and THORACIC DUCT. Rudbeck, a Swede, and Bartholin, a Dane, found out the Lymphatic Vessels, in 1650, and 1651. See LYMPHATICS. Wharton, in 1655, discovered the lower Salival Ducts; and Steno the upper Salival...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    of Fire. See CUPPEL. The Fluid Parts of Animals are the cruder as they are less distant from the Lacteals, and absorbent Vessels. Thus Chyle is little else but a vegetable Juice; but in its farther progress, gradually lays aside its vegetable...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    be so managed, as to operate little or not at all in the Prime Vias, nor be perceived till they are got into the smallest Vessels. And then it is they are qualified to combat the Gout, Pox, Evil, etc. See PURGATIVES. ANTIMONY

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION

    and Suffumigations: Is a Tenesmus attend, Rhubarb is to be us'd;and if there be an habitual Laxity of the Uterine Vessels, Guaiacum. ABORTION is also used where the Child dies in the Womb ;tho it remain there many Years, or even as long as the Mother...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    a Lympha, which stops up the Nerves; or a Plethora, which oppresses them; or Excrescences inside the Cranium, pressing the Vessels; or a Polypus, blocking up the Carotids, etc. See BRAIN. In dissecting Persons dead hereof, clotted extravasated Blood is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    the natural Texture and Viscidity of the Blood, should discose it, by a further degree of Cold, to lag and stagnate in the Vessels : so that the Circulation stopping, and the Animal Functions being in great measure suspended ; there is no sensible Waste...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology
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