Sanctorio, a most ingenious and learned physician, was professor in the university of Padua, in the beginning of the 17th century. He contrived a kind of statical chair, by means of which, after estimating the aliments received, and the sensible discharges, he was enabled to determine with great exactness the quantity of insensible perspiration, as well as what kind of victuals and drink increased or diminished it. On these experiments he erected a curious system, which he published under the title of De Medicina Statica; which is translated into English by Dr Quincy. Sanctorius published several other treatises, which showed great abilities and learning.

Sanctuary, among the Jews, also called Sanctum sanctorum, or Holy of holies, was the holiest and most retired part of the temple of Jerusalem, in which the ark of the covenant was preserved, and into which none but the high-priest was allowed to enter, and that only once a year, to intercede for the people.

Some distinguish the sanctuary from the sanctum sanctorum, and maintain that the whole temple was called the sanctuary.

To try and examine anything by the weight of the sanctuary, is to examine it by a just and equal scale; because, among the Jews, it was the custom of the priests to keep stone weights, to serve as standards for regulating all weights by, though these were not at all different from the royal or profane weights.