mittent

comparative more mittent · superlative most mittent

1. obsoleteEmitting harmful humors.

   Vicious Humours peccant in quantity or quality are either thrust forth by the Part mittent,[…]or attracted by the Part recipient.

   1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises

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   The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which is […] cured, […] if from the liver, spleen, womb, or whole body, according to the mittent and recipient part, by phlebotomy, catharticks, revulsion and roborants […]

   1661, Robert Lovell, “Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC, page 332

   If the part mittent be less noble, the matter must be drawn to the ignoble part, if the pain of the Stomach proceed from arthritick pains, the Physician need not fear to send the pains to the former place.

   1684, A guide to the practical physician, translated from Théophile Bonet's Mercurius compitalitius (1682?) and edited by anonymous translator, page 631