The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey].

  • John Pechey
Date:
1695
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    468/530 page 486
    fo much relaxed, that efpecially in old Men, ( for Ghi- fters are not ufed with fo good Succefs in old Men as in young) Nature is obftrudted in her: bufinefs.. D) itht But whether Bleeding has been ufed or omitted, if — thy the effervefcence be too languid, and wants to be ftir- ; vith red up 5 in this cafe we mutt wholly abftain from the ie] ule of Glifters, even before the tenth day, and much | ral rather if it be paft, for to what purpofe fhould we en- hi 4 deavour to fupprefs the fermentation that is too weak 9) 7, already ? ; il ~~. As to Cordials, I have found by experience, that the 4]- , too early ufe.of them has been very injurious, vz. 9] | (Bleeding having not been firft ufed ) there is danger §) left the crude’ Matter thould fall upon the-‘Membranes |] ~ of the Brain, or the like, or on the Pleura ; and there- | tk fore I always take care that Cordials be not given, 5 ‘ when no Blood, or but very little has been taken away, ~ 3 and there has been no other confiderable Evacuation, or ; y when the Patient. has not paffed. the flower of ‘his Age. , But if the Patient be weakned by profufe Evacuations, ~ i Lule to give Cordials even at the beginning of the Fe- | “ ver ; but on the twelfth day ofthe Difeafe, things then | tending to Secretion, I fuppofe we ought freely to in- 7 Tix dulge the ufe of hotter Medicines, and indeed a little 9} B fooner, if there be no danger of driving the febrile Mat- a ter upon the principal Parts. : 7 an | Ba _ Jf the Fermentation proceed well, the Defpumation 9» y will be Enifhed about the Fourteenth day. Butif youg| © ufe Codlers too late, and fo by their means fupprefs the} Mi éffervetcence, it is not ftrange if the Fever continue toy the Twenty firt day, and much longer in feeble Bodies} lv ill managed. ° <a? im feribe are fuch as thofe, which TF ; | qi Bat | low, 1 My eT a than when bleeding has not preceded, ot when the’ Patint was in the flower of his Age. 4 T hofe | i
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3