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Congelativa
Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. Medicines classified by stopping a bodily flow.
In the book. Constrictiva and Stiptica provide related categories of restraining or drying medicines.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345.
Historical Definition
Congelativa are medicines that stop any flux.
Meaning
The defining property is the stopping of a flux, a flow or discharge. The entry gives no ingredients and makes no distinction among the different flows that another medical passage might discuss. Its broad wording should remain visible instead of being narrowed to one modern symptom.
Use in the Book
Constrictiva and Stiptica provide related categories of restraining or drying medicines. Repercussiva is also defined through driving back a flux. These are useful historical comparisons, but the dictionary does not say that every member of one class belongs to all the others.
Places to Read
Constrictiva. A surgical class defined through a styptic action.
Repercussiva. Medicines classified by their supposed action of driving a flow back.
Stiptica. A therapeutic class identified by drying.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Congelativa
See also. Constrictiva; Repercussiva; Stiptica