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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    +} parts to the circumferential,and h) then Phlebotomy is unnecefiary | and of no ufe, Again the fame ) Author affirmeth, that if this it} puftulous eruption be intenfe | and conjunct witha difficulty of | ‘breathing ,. it is: a fion that | Natureis onerated or over-bur- | thened ; and therefore bloud- | letting isto be ordained for bling it to encounter ‘the re- | mainder’; which is reafonable , | if fuch a part of the onerating humour might folely & per fe i} be extracted without the loffe -} of f{pirit ; for the {up port offpi- tit is the principal {coe of cure -} in this-difeafe, which is no way ‘Peffected by’ bloud-letting. | Therefore this practife is infig- hificant,otherwife the argument | would be acceptable to ‘all Lo- | gical perfons, and.as inaccepta- ble to the whole Sect of Gale- ts D nifts
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