# Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular/Medical
## Lesson XX. medical.
### 先生

    Sin-seⁿ
       A doctor.

### 醫

    Ui
       To cure.

### 病

    Pēⁿ
       To be ill; sickness.

### 人不好

    Nâng m̄-móⁿ
       Unwell.

### 抱病

    Phùa-pēⁿ
       To be very ill for a long period.

### 着力

    Tíh-lát
       To be very ill, almost dying.

### 醫袂好

    Ui bõi-hó
       Incurable.

### 醫難好

    Ui oh-hó

### 難醫

    Oh-ui
       Difficult to cure.

### 畧好

    Ióu-hó
    Tsuáh
       Better.

### 全愈

    Tshuân-zú
       Quite recovered.

### 斷氣

    Tñg-khùi
       To expire.

### 頭壳痛

    Thâu-khak thiàⁿ

### 頭壳眩

    Thâu-khak hîn
       Headache.

### 人𤍠

    Nâng zuáh

### 發燒

    Huat-sie
       Fever.

### 畏冷

    Uì-chhìn
       Ague.

### 發燒畏冷

    Huat-sie ùi-chhìn
       Fever and ague. ​

### 肚痛

    Tóu-thiàⁿ
       Stomachache.

### 抽痛

    Thiu-thiàⁿ
       Cramp.

### 嘔

    Thôu
       To vomit.

### 瀉屎

    Làu-sái

### 肚瀉

    Tóu làu
       Diarrhoea.

### 放血

    Pàng-àng

### 滯氣

    Thì-khì

### 痢疾

    Lĩ-chit
       Dysentery.

### 肚澁

    Tóu-siap
       Costiveness.

### 着痧

    Tiéh-sua
       Colic.

### 損病

    Sùn-pēⁿ
       Consumption.

### 瘋痛

    Huang-thiàⁿ

### 生瘋

    Seⁿ-huang
       Rheumatism.

### 傷風

    Sieⁿ-huang
       To catch cold when ill, or just after being ill.

### 寒着

    Kûaⁿ--tiéh
       To catch cold.

### 甘虫

    Kam-thâng
       Tape-worms.

### 甘癪

    Kam-chek
       Having tape-worms in the stomach.

### 喘

    Tshuán
       DIfficult respiration.

### 咬嗽

    Ka-sàu
       To cough. ​

### 呾話重句

    Tàⁿ-uē têng-kù

### 大舌

    Tūa-chíh
       Stammering.

### 鮡

    Thiôu
       Pimples.

### 瘡

    Tshng
       Ulcers.

### 痔

    Thĩ
       Piles.

### 疥

    Kòi
       Itch.

### 癢

    Chiẽⁿ
       Itchy.

### 泡

    Phã
       A blister.

### 起泡

    Phok-phã
       To rise in blister.

### 腫

    Chéng
       Swelling.

### 不知人

    M̄-tsai-nâng
       Fainting.

### 眩

    Hîn
       Giddy.

### 眩船

    Hîn-tsûn
       Sea-sick.

### 齒痛

    Khí-thiàⁿ
       Toothache.

### 吐瀉

    Thòu-sià
       Cholera.

### 賢亞娘

    Gâu-a-niêⁿ

### 出珠

    Tshut-tsu
       Small-pox.

### 食痘

    Chiáh-tāu

### 出痘

    Tshut-tāu
       Chicken-pox.

### 種珠

    Chèng-tsu
       To vacinate. ​

### 食粥

    Chiáh-mûeⁿ
       Measles.

### 大頸奎

    Tūn-ãm-kui
       Goitre.

### 瘤

    Liû
       Tumour.

### 軟疕

    Nńg-nîⁿ

### 痒癲

    Kuàn-pien
       Palsy.

### 顚

    Sióu
       Mad.

### 心神不定

    Sim-sîn m̄-tiāⁿ
       Insane.

### 愩

    Kòng
       Crazy.

### 輩

    Bùi
    Pùi
       Prickly heat.

### 癬

    Sién
       Ringworm.

### 目痛

    Mák--thiàⁿ
       Sore-eyes.

### 近視

    Kṳ̃n-sī
    Kṳ̃n-tshṳ̀
       Near-sighted.

### 睛盲

    Chheⁿ-mêⁿ
       Blind.

### 眼睛灰

    Mák-chiu-hue
       Dimness.

### 斜目

    Siâ-mák-chióu
       Squinting.

### 耳聾

    Hĩⁿ--lâng
       Deaf.

### 啞

    É
       Dumb.

### 缺嘴

    Khih-tshùi
       Hare-lip. ​

### 腰龜

    Ie-ku
       Humpback.

### 拐脚

    Kuái-kha
       Lame.

### 枋脚䥥

    Páng-kha-liâm.

### 縻脚

    Miⁿ-kha
       Ulcerated leg.

### 生物

    Seⁿ-muéh
       To have a disease.

### 生㿗

    Seⁿ-thûe
       To have a boil.

### 濃

    Lâng
       Matter.

### ⿸疒尉

    Uè
       To infect.

### 傷痕

    Sieⁿ-hûn
       A scar.

### 痣

    Kì
       A wart.

### 侯蠅屎痣

    Hôu-sîn-sái-kì
       A mole.

### 破相

    Phùa-sièⁿ
       Deformed.

### 瘟疫

    Un-chiàng

### 天時粗澁

    Thiⁿ-sî tshou-siap
       A plague.

### 平安

    Phêng-an
       Peace.

### 藥單

    Iéh-tuaⁿ

### 藥方

    Iéh-hng
       A prescription.

### 藥

    Iéh
       Medicine.

### 藥丸

    Iéh-íⁿ
       Pills.

### 膏藥

    Ko-iéh
       Ointment, plaster. ​

### 藥粉

    Iéh-hún
       Powder, for taking.

### 藥末

    Iéh-buáh
       Powder,„ for„ applying.

### 寒藥

    Kûaⁿ-iéh
       Quinine.

### 紅藥

    Âng-iéh
       Pain-killer.

### 戒芬丸

    Kói-hun-îⁿ
       “Stop-opium” pills.

### 卑蔴油

    Pi-mûaⁿ-iû
       Castor oil.

### 食瀉

    Chiáh-sià
       To take an aperient.

### 瀉

    Sià
       To purge.

### 食死人

    Chiáh-sí-nâng
       Poison.

### 飯粒

    Pn̄g-liáp
       Poultice.

### 薄荷油

    Pô-hò-iû
       Peppermint.

### 毒

    Ták
       Poisonous, as snakes.

### 食凉

    Chiáh-liâng
       To take something cooling.

### 食補

    Chiáh-póu
       To take something very strenghtening as gin-seng, deer horn, &c.

### 有補

    Ũ-póu
       Nutritious.

### 貼

    Tah
       To apply, as a poultice, plaster &c.

### 抹

    Buah
       To apply, as iodine, oinment &c.

### 食藥

    Chiáh-iéh
       To take medicine.

### 解藥

    Kói-iéh
       To act as an antidote. ​

### 壹帖

    Chék-thiap
       A dose, (as of Chinese medicine.)

### 壹日食三餐

    Chék-jít chiáh-saⁿ-tǹg
       To be taken three times a day.

### 空心肚食

    Khang-sim-tóu chiáh
       To be taken when the stomach is empty.

### 未食先食

    Būe-chiáh soiⁿ-chiáh
       To be taken before meals.