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OF ehc Anciene Medals, the most Ancient are ) simen t0 be oblerred in the Preserration ot
he Greck; and the Consular Medals, are the most FTCalth.
Ancient of the Latine ones.
MEDLANA Vena is che Midale Vein in che
bendins of che Cubit, betrvixe the Ceptralick
and Bahlick; ic is satelr opened, because theres
neicher NCrre NOF Arcery under iC.
MEDTAL Alligation. See Allication Me-
dial.
MIEDIASTINOMI, is a doublins ofthe Pleu
ra, or Membrane clorhins ihic incernal Parts ot
the Thorax, Ribs, 65. and ic divides the Lungs
and other Viscera oF the BrCaM, INEO LNO PaTIS.
5. Therapeurica, wohich reaches che manage
MenEOE Diet; and comprehends Chyrursery, anet
che Ar oF Medicine, property (0 called.
The general Dirision OF Physick is oniy into
EvO ParIS; The Theory and che Practick: AN aC
curare Still in boch which, are necessarr romake
a Mtan a so0d Physician.
MEDLOS Venter. Sec ThoraX.
MEDDLLA Cerebri is the rHILC (OEE ParE OF
he Brain, corered onthe ourside with che Corri
cal Substance, Wrhich is oF a more dark Or 2Mh7.
Ec proceeds trom the Verrebres ot the Back, and colour: Ic is calld plsothe Corpus callosum, ariet
eoins on formard, reaches the Brealt.bone, and
is an Onion or Conjunction OF both che sdes oE
chere makes un eminent Partirion in the verr che Brain into one. Willis obserred, Thac lenoth-
midale of the ThoraX.
MEDIASTINTA, is a Branch OF the Subclavial
vise chis Parr consised ot an Innumerable Stria,
Or Fibrae, cendine lenochvile: And Malpiehius
Veins, which ordinarily comes From the Trunk asserrs, Thac bY the help of a Microscope they
oF the Cava, ic soesto the Mediastinum and Thy-
mus.
MEDTATIOHI, according co Tome VVrirer
OF Rrichmerick, is Division Dy 23 Or caking the
appear (o visible as t0 l0o Comechins like che
Tech oF an Irory Comb.
MEDDLEA oblonzataq IS ThaE PArE OE EHE
Brain wichin the Stull, Which is ehie begimine
halF oF any Plumber ex Onancier. This is cal- OE che Spinal Marro; ir is abouc 3 Or A Inches
Ded also Biparrition; and in Relerence to Lines, in lensrh ichinthe Scull, and chen ir descendsro
ulually Bissection.
the Os Sacrum, thro che Hole oF che hinder parr
MIEDIATOS LineuR, OE Parry-Fury, 15 a Ju- OF the FPCad and the Verrebres: it sends outrer
ey Impanelled uxon any Cause, Wherein a STran-
Pair oF Nerres ro the Chest, the Abdomen, and
per is Party, Whereot the one half consilts oF che Limbs. Ir is calld also the Common sensory
Denizens, the orher oF Scrangers, and is uled in Decause ihe Original oF the Nerres beine
Pleas, Where one Parry is a Denizen, and the o- there, it is the common place or receptacle ol
ther Stranger
MHMO Acquitrando, 15 a Wrie Judicial, 10
distrain a Lord tor the acquittine a Nean LOrd
FrOm 2 RCHC WICH dC Tormerty acknoledged
in Court, Hoc to belons cohim.
AACDTOM in Nacurat PMOTOPS, AStHeS
that peculiar Constiturion ol any Space Or RC-
sion chro Wen boctes more. Phiusche Ather
is supposed by lome ro be the Medium in exhrich
all thac comes ro the Brain by che externat
Senles.
MEDVELA Osstum, Marron in che Bones, is
a sotc tac Cubstance plac d in the Carities, OF PO-
rohries oF the Bones; it is kept in a Membrane,
and is quire destiture oF all Sense; it is red in
rhe greater Cavicies, whire in the less, and sot
and lucculene in spunoy Bones.
MIEDOLLA Spinalis, Or ihe Spinal Marrov
che Planers and Hearenty Bodies more. Theis che Continuarion oF che Medulla Oblonsata
Nir is ee ledium in ertrich all Meteors are gene-
rated anet more; and by the means ot wtict
ic is thac al Land Animals, a5 Insects, Birds,
withour the Scull; and vrtich passins chro aIl
the Verrebres oF the Back, ends at last at the 05
Sacrum; it is a kind ot Coasmentation oF Nerres.
Beacts, and Men, can Breath and Lire. Buc sendins out chiry pair of Nerres on cach side, to
Nater is the Medium in Wrtich Fistres Lire and the Limbs, roche sreac Caviries, and octrer parte
MOVC. L aert CCMES; O Lenacier) oF che Body. IF it De astid with a conveniene
chere is in The Laris oF chis Flura Mcarum, Micles Liquor, ic will serer inco a great mans licle Fin
by Bodies oring in ic are hindred et scopped; bres, Which allo are rerz conspicuous in ies Ori-
MEDOL LA OF 2 PlatE, Or rather TreC, i5
the lame wich Cor; irhich sec
MEDDLLART Oil is ihie Ainer and more
Subrile paFE OF the MlarrOW OE the Bones; Whict
pasles intothem noc by Ducts (Paith Dr. FTavers,
bur bY mail Pores Formed in the Vesicles Or
Glandules (wrhich are conglomerared inco di
sicte, is an ArE altittant to Nature, and deligned Sinet Lobules contained in lereral Membranes
Or BaG5, and these Bags are conrained in one
common Membrane Inresting the Wtole Mar
Remeales. Senertus and Oets, diride ic into row: And all chele Veheles, BaGS, and COaF O
AVe ParS.
Membrane are propasared From the oucward
. Physiolozia wrhich erears oF an FTuman CMIL. COaL OF the AETerieS) by wtrich ic passes Fro
one ro anocher, cill ir arrires ac che sides DF ex
tream parts OF he BOnC.
FHaE PatE OE ic Which is suxplied co che TnEer-
Rices oF che soines, passes into them by PasageS
penerrarins chro che Bone inco chose Cavities;
and lornied soc vio ere.
in parE to cale, i5 called ee Resistance of the
Medium. And MF. Iaac Nemion hach proved,
(0 thar the Morion becomes POrver, ol l thade ginal, the Medulla Obloncata
Thac chis Resistance oF ihe Medium to the NO.
tion oF Bodies, is alwvays a5 the Square OF the
Velocies oF che movins Body. Princip. Philos.
Math. P. 245. Sec ResisaMC os the Mcu.
MEDICIME, or ad i commonty called Phy-
For the preserring oF Flealch in Flumane Bodies,
as much as is posible, by the VSc oF conreniene
Stitution, as ic is sound and Wet, t0 which be.
IOnsS Anatomy 100.
2. Pathologia, Wrhich erears oE rhe lselerna
cural Consticution ot out BOdiCS.
3. Semiotica, which ereats oE HC C
Hlealch and Diseales.
Hysicina, wlick delirers Rules 1t