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† ˈscotomy Path. Obs.
[Anglicized form of scotomia.]
= scotoma 1.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 118, & if þat he hadde scotomie, þat is to seie a maner sijknes, whanne þat þer semeþ as flien or oþere smale gnattis fleen tofore his yȝen. a1500in James West. MSS. Trin. Coll. Camb. (1902) III. 494 Scotomye is such a sekenes of the Brayne that maketh a man to seme that he sethe flyes or blake thingis in þe eyre. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe ii. xxxiv. (1541) 50 In swellyng of the body and legges..mygrimes, and scotomies, which is an imagination of darkenes. 1605B. Jonson Volpone i. iv. (1607) C 2, How do's he, with the swimming of his head? Mos. O, Sir, tis past the Scotomy; he, now, Hath lost his feeling, and hath left to snort. a1640Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, I ha got the Scotony [sic] in my head already, The whimzy: you all turne round, do not you dance gallants? 1710T. Fuller Pharmacop. 222 We employ it [i.e. the Infusion] with happy Success in..Scotomy, &c. |