Two treatises, the one medical, of the gout, and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto; together with a new way of discharging the same / ... By Herman Busschof Senior ... The other partly chirurgical, partly medical; containing some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel; and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse ... Englished out of Dutch. By a careful hand.

  • Hermann Buschoff
Date:
1676
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Credit: Two treatises, the one medical, of the gout, and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto; together with a new way of discharging the same / ... By Herman Busschof Senior ... The other partly chirurgical, partly medical; containing some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel; and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse ... Englished out of Dutch. By a careful hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wallied it.out with a little wine, gi¬ ving it fomewhat to drink, and let¬ ting irbreath a little. Then having duh^ clofed the flitches, and laid them about with the fllk in the needle, moiflned' with the balfom-oyl, I put upon it a flat wieck, fecuring the drefs with piaiflers and flnali bands,to leave the noflrils free, This done, I gave the ehiifl a cordial, and fome nou- rifliing -meat,, as, alfo fome Syrup of Violets c,to lick, and fo to anoint as ’twereit][ie-^wound^fl;om beneath.; The next day nothing:was done as to the .drefs i bi^t the-third day, the middle needle \yas fo(xe.sflilly taken out, and the'.part ^relied gs.before. The fifth day^the-fowermofl • needle was taken Out . and the v fixth day the upper- moft cwas-taken out; and the tenth day from .the operation', the Child was freed from its drefs and piaiflers, and went: a^way in a good conditi¬ on, ■ ■ The words of the jfylother, parting from me, were thefe; I came to you • with^ q Monger, and now^ God be CVf-'. i ' ’ fraifid