Copy 1, Volume 1

The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind].

  • John Freind
Date:
1725-1726
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Credit: The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >s ] W e find in this Author the firft ac¬ count of a ft range and furprizing d li¬ tem per, Aui&vQp1 or Av^iSpuTT©*, a fpecies of melancholy and madneis, which he deicribes thus. <c The per- “ ions afte&ed, go out of their hou- <c ies in the night-time, and in every “ thing imitate Wolves, and wander among the icpulchres of the dead ’till day break m. You may know them by theie iymptoms. Their looks are pale ; their eyes heavy, hollow, dry, “ without the leaft moifture of a tear : their tongue exceedingly parched and dry j no ipittle in the mouth, ex- “ treme thirft; their legs, from the “ falls and bruifes ” they receive, full “ of incurable fores and ulcers.” ALtius gives the very iame defoription, with fome little variation; only calls it <C CC cc cc cc cc i 8, io. m Aquarius adds, that they return home then, and come to their fenfes. Meth. Med. i. 16. * Among Stones and Thorns^ A£tuar. and from the kites of Dogs, JEt. 6. i u Kvvavm