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Axungia de Mumia
Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. Two expressions identifying bone marrow.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 9; facsimile PDF page 337.
Historical Definition
Axungia de Mumia, or Mumia de Medullis, is the marrow of bones.
Meaning
The alternative names belong together in a finding index. Their definition is anatomical: the substance is the marrow within bones. The Mumia vocabulary can look more mysterious than this particular identification warrants, so the plain material gloss is especially helpful.
Elsewhere the dictionary uses Mumia in several qualified expressions. The existence of that wider family does not make all of them bone marrow. Here the complete terms supply the specific sense. Preserve the qualification when following a preparation or comparing passages.
Places to Read
Mumia. Balmed flesh, expressly extending beyond human flesh.
Liquor Mumiæ. A Mumia compound explicitly identified as human fat.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 9; facsimile PDF page 337 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Axungia de Mumia ; compare Mumia, Liquor Mumiæ
See also. Mumia; Liquor Mumiæ