The marrow of physicke. Or, a learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body. Being a Medicamentary teaching the maner and way of making ... such oiles, unguents, sirrups ... pilles, &c ... as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... And also an addition of divers experimented medicines. Which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body. Together with some rare receipts for beauties, and the newest and best way of preserving and conserving: with divers other secrets never before published ... / Collected ... by ... T. B., Gen. Practitioner in Physicke and Chyrurgery.

  • Thomas Brugis
Date:
1640
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Credit: The marrow of physicke. Or, a learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body. Being a Medicamentary teaching the maner and way of making ... such oiles, unguents, sirrups ... pilles, &c ... as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... And also an addition of divers experimented medicines. Which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body. Together with some rare receipts for beauties, and the newest and best way of preserving and conserving: with divers other secrets never before published ... / Collected ... by ... T. B., Gen. Practitioner in Physicke and Chyrurgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A folution of continn*• % ncflfc, 4 the roughnefle: fonae have their noftrils either by nature or accident depreffbd and doled ,' tome their nofe cither turning too much up , or prefled too much downe, which we call a difeafe in figure, alio crooked legges arc called a dilcafe in figure; iU]iej}orcs of the skin, the vetoes, arteries, nerves, or«uccters<arc too big and wide, or too narrow, (and fmall, or crufhcd by fora neighbouring part, it is called a difeafe in the paflage, or hollowncs.thc like if the guttes are flopped : when the part made by nature light, becomes heavy; as the afpea arteria whofe inner coat ought to be light, if it be made heavier, or (harper by tome acride diftillation 9 or if the part whichought to be rough, as thcventicle, wombe, and guttes, the better to containe, if they be made light or fmoth, as it happens to the guttes a flexed with a fluxe,and to women with child,who mifearry by rcafon of the flippejinefle of the wombe, it is called a difeafe of r@ughnes,Qr fmoothnes. A diftemperaturc only hurts the adionsof the fimilar parts ; an organicall difeafe hurts the inftrument : but a folution of continuity, as an ulcer, a wound, a fra&urc* a luxation, and tumors againft nature, doe hurt both the operations of the fimilar parts,& trouble and hinder the «fe of the inftrumeni$,and therfore are called common difeafes;a fratflure in a bone is called a folution of conti¬ nuity, in a nerve a convulfion, in a ligament a divulfion, in the skin the excoriation, in the flefh a wound, ulcer, rupture, contufion, a rupture of the flfhy part, as of a mufclcs, and fometimes of a veinc or artery is a folution without a wound; a wound is a folution of continuity in the fkfhy part from an outward caufe, an ulcer from an inward caufe, as a (harp corroding humour. CH A P. )