An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of small pox : together with problematicall questions concerning the French pest / by T. Whitaker.

  • Tobias Whitaker
Date:
1661
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Credit: An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of small pox : together with problematicall questions concerning the French pest / by T. Whitaker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    morbis curandis , cap. 2. where he difcourfeth of peftilential Paftules in the internal coat of | the aspera arteria, and fuch as are in the external parts..of the bo- dy, by no other appellation than a nomine Exanthesmatum : and the fame Author in his Com- mentarie upon Hippocrates his Vulgar Difeafes, there doth af. firm, that amongft other difea. fes in peftilential conftitutionss there doth appear . Ecthimaia', which are great flourifhing pu- ftules in theskin, arifing out of the ebullition of grofs humors, by’ which he doth apparently demonftrate by -»what name the Small Pox, or'Variola , pafied *, amongft the Ancients. And Se- Meafrbgrafiiancs de morbis puerorum , “ with many. other Writers, are of the fame opinion ; from whom Marcus Antonius, the Florentine Phy fician, doth differ; queft. | |
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