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‖ ˈludus Med. Obs.
[Mod.L. (Paracelsus), app. an application of L. lūdus play (perh. taken in the sense ‘freak of nature’).]
A name applied to certain septarian nodules formerly regarded as specific in cases of calcareous concretionary disease.
a1728Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils (1729) I. 83 He [Dr. Grew] supposes the Waxen-Vein to be the same with the Ludus of Paracelsus and Van Helmont. Ibid. 84 Sir I. Newton gave me a Piece of this kind of Body brought over from Germany by the younger Helmont, as the true Ludus of his Father; which does not differ..from those commonly found in England. |