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  • 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

  • ACCRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCRETION

    stones, shells, etc. are supposed to grow. See STONE and SHELL. The other is by some solid matter received into proper vessels and gradually brought to adhere or grow to the sides thereof. This is what we call Intussusception; and thus, plants and...

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

  • APERIENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERIENTS

    or Aperitive Medicines, are such as open the obstructed Passages of the small Vessels, Glands, and Pores; and by that means promote a due Circulation of the contained Juices. See OBSTRUCTION, CAPILLARY, GLAND, CIRCULATION, etc. Aperients, then, coincide...

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

  • ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION

    Feet, sometimes the Head, and oftentimes the whole Body : For which purpose, at the Entrance into their Temples were plac'd Vessels made of Marble Triumphant (as Du Choul calls it) fill'd with Water. This Custom, without doubt, they learnt from the...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    ANTIPERISTASIS, in Philosophy, the Action of two opposite Qualities, one whereof, by its Opposition excites and heightens the Force of the other. See QUALITY. This Word is Greek, Ἀντιπερίστασις; formed of ἀντί, contra against, and περιίστημι, to stand...

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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • ABAFThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABAFT

    in the Sea Language, denotes the Stern, or Hind-part of a Vessel ; call'd also AFT. See AFT. The Stern, strictly speaking, is only the Outside ; Abaft includes both inside and out. See STERN. ARRIERE

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

  • ALEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALE

    ALE, a popular beverage drink, made from malt. See MALT, and DRINK. For the method of brewing ale, see Brewing. Ale is chiefly distinguished from beer, another potable liquor made from the same ingredients, by the quantity of hops used therein; which is...

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

  • AORTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AORTA

    AORTA, in Anatomy, an Artery, which arises immediately out of the left Ventricle of the Heart; and is distributed thence through all Parts of the Body. See ARTERY and HEART. The Aorta is otherwise called the great Artery; as being the Trunk, out of...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    AXIS properly signifies a line or long piece of iron or wood passing through the centre of a sphere, which is moveable upon the same. See SPHERE. In this sense we say the axis of a sphere, or globe; the axis, or axle-tree of a wheel, etc. See GLOBE,...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    AMALGAMATION, in Chemistry, the Operation of making an Amalgama; i.e., of calcining, or rather dissolving some Metal, especially Gold, by means of Mercury. See AMALGAMA. Amalgamation is performed by fusing, or at least igniting the Metal; and in this...

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

  • ACETABULUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACETABULUM

    ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a little vase or cup used at table to serve up things proper for sauce or seasoning, much after the manner of our salts and vinegar cruets. See VASE, and VESSEL. Hence, Agricola, in his treatise of Roman measures, L. I., takes...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    ARMONIACK, or rather Ammoniac, in natural History, a sort of volatile Salt; whereof there are two Kinds; ancient and modern. See SALT. The ancient Sal Ammoniac, called also Sal Cyrenaica, described by Pliny and Dioscorides, was a native Salt, generated...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...

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