Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey].

  • John Pechey
Date:
1691
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Credit: Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In a.Lethargy Purging Medicines muft bee} milder at the beginning, by reafon. a conti--} nual Fever accompanies it,. made of . Agaric,,} to which fome Rubarb or Scammony may be added, or the Pill de Hiera with Agaric; be- caufe Choler is the Vehicle of Humours to thee} Heads, yet in the Progrefs of the Difeafe, when] the Matter is carried to the Head, and fltickss} there, we moft ufe.the Purges above men—| tion’d. ) | Trallianus gives 34, of Scammony, with 5i..} of Caftor in Oxymel, by which:.he fays, Hef has cur’d mary deplorable’ Lethargies; andi} Orobafius fays, there is no better Medicine for: a Lethargy to purge Phlegm mixt with Choler,, | and carried to the Head, than Scammony given. | with Caftor. , But it often happens that. the Faculties are fo} opprefs'd, that Medicines will’ not work, whichi} is an ij] Sign,and when ’tis fo the Patient feldom: recovers. AndCelfus fays, When things are fo,, a fort of Rafhnefs is allowable. in the ufe of Remedies, and that many things are well done: in fudden dangers, which otherwifle ought to be omitted: And therefore the Remedies. pro- | pos’d,doing no.good,we may ufe Antimonial Me-- | dicines,efpecially thofe that are not over violent, as the Agua Benedifta made of Crocus .Aetallorum, which working powerfully by Vomit and Stool, brings away fo great a quantity of Phlegm, not nly frem the Stomach and inferior Parts, but alfo from the Brain, that the Sick are fome- times cur’d by this Evacuation; and 1 declare bona fide, that I have feen a Nobleman freed | from