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Orexis
Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A heat attributed to tartarous matter.
In the book. Tartarum provides the fuller vocabulary of hard deposits in wine vessels and stones or gravel in human bodies.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364.
Historical Definition
Orexis is a heat caused by tartarous matter.
Meaning
The sentence supplies a cause as well as a condition. The material described as tartarous is said to produce heat. The term should not be identified from a familiar meaning in another language while disregarding this local gloss.
Use in the Book
Tartarum provides the fuller vocabulary of hard deposits in wine vessels and stones or gravel in human bodies. That connection helps explain the adjective while leaving the present definition’s account of heat visible.
Places to Read
Tartarum. A wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.
Qualitas. The balance of hot, cold, dry and moist qualities.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Orexis; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 364; compare Tartarum, Qualitas