Sanctorian, a.
(sæŋkˈtɔərɪən)
[f. mod.L. Sanctōri-us (It. Santorio), a Venetian physician (1561–1636): see -an.]
Of or pertaining to Sanctorius, who made experiments and calculations on insensible perspiration by means of a ‘statical chair’. Sanctorian perspiration, insensible perspiration, first discovered by Sanctorius. Sanctorian table, a register of the quantities of perspiration, etc.
For earlier references to the experiments of Sanctorius (not containing this adj.) see 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. iv. 116 and 1711 Addison Spect. No. 25 ¶2.
| 1740 Cheyne Regimen p. liii, To try, by a Sanctorian Chair, the Quantity and Quality of those Foods that perspire the most and soonest. 1743 Lining in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 318 Two Columns in my Sanctorian Tables, where I have daily supposed the Ingesta to be 100 Ounces. 1744 tr. Boerhaave's Inst. III. 306 Through these [vessels] is perpetually transpired a very subtle Humour from every Point of the Body, called from its Inventor the Sanctorian Perspiration. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. 219 note, From this experiment also, the learned may gather upon what a weak foundation the whole doctrine of the Sanctorian perspiration is built. 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 842/1 Sanctorius..made lengthened experiments on perspiration. The insensible perspiration has..been termed ‘Sanctorian’ in honour of him. |