Volume 1
The history of physic, or, an account of the rise and progress of the art, and the several discoveries therein from age to age. With remarks on the lives of the most eminent physicians / Written originally in French by Daniel Le Clerc, and made English by Dr. Drake, and Dr. Baden. With additional notes and sculptures.
- Daniel Le Clerc
- Date:
- 1699
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of physic, or, an account of the rise and progress of the art, and the several discoveries therein from age to age. With remarks on the lives of the most eminent physicians / Written originally in French by Daniel Le Clerc, and made English by Dr. Drake, and Dr. Baden. With additional notes and sculptures. Source: Wellcome Collection.
446/460 page 406
![406 The Hiftory of ‘ Part] mother nitrous, another of the colour of a Leck, another. falc, another bitter, another like the yolk of an Egg. He added betides thefe two other fortsofiJuices, one which he calld (i) Edcun@. (7) Raking, that is, which produced a fenfe in the part, asif it were fcrapd with a Knife or fome fach Inétrument, the other he call'd (hy szerO. (R) fix d. (J) Moft difeafes according: to him Thele names,as depended upon thefe difpcfitions of the hu- well as thofe mours, and it was his opinion, that it was in taken from the yain to look any where eife, than into thehu- colour of aLeck pours for the caufes of health or ficknefs. and the Yolk (y\ Galew limits the number of humonts , ofan ERS 6 which Pramagoras diftinguifhed to ten, with- agp: ; #4 But out reckoning the blood which makes cleven , thofe fOwres bye he does not {pecify what they were. eee eae here are divers fpecimens of the practice (gc. were ap- olied by Hip- of Praxagorasm Celius Aurelianus. Amongt other things we find that he was very much pocratés, to sf, ; , the faine rbings for (2) Vomnits. He gave them even in th re before. Quinfey and in Convulfions; the fame he did CL) Lotrodué alfo in the Tliack Paffion, as well as Hippocra- cap: 9. tes, buthe urgd them further, continuing (m)De facul- them until the Excrements came up at the rat. Nat. |. 2emouth; which is,a fymptom that comes * Cae in the extremity of this diftemper, with- aha act: bold. praétitioner + for an this diftemper, if I 3. cap. 17- the Remedies did not operate, he ordered an -ncifion to be made into the Beliy, and even into the Gut itfelf, and the Excrements to be drawnvout, and the wound to be fewed up asain. ‘Thisexample, and thofe before cited, {news that from the beginning of Phyfick, they tried all means they could think of to aniwer their etids, how dangerous foever. ae a) Great Vein, between the Liver and the ‘Kid- neve. Jue hadfeveral Scholars, the moft qo0k! Ae conti Iti» (pe ci ——— TH > Frafii ter Hi) of thol long a0 extreal Bit Ce hs Met](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30330452_0001_0446.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
