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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

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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[ 2<*7 ] to any large quantities of wind, which opprefs and (Mend the Chejl or the Lower-belly. For one or other of thefe reafons we fee a Palpitation of the Heart is a familiar fymptom, which attends Hy¬ pochondriacal and Hyjlerical perfons, as Acluarius obferves: and Hollerius de- fcribes a cafe relating to this difeafe, where the Pericardium was fwell’d with wind alone to a vaff dimenfion; and no other caufe appear’d, which cou’d occafion the diforder. A&uarius fays more of the cure of a Palpitation, than any of the other Greek Phyflcians; befides Alteratives, which muff be adapted to the caufes of the complaint and the conflitution of the patient, he lays the chief flrefs upon bleeding and purging ; the lafl of which methods I believe is firfl mentioned bv j this author. And certainly as the inten¬ tion of curing, where the diffemper ari« fes from fome particular flate of the Spi¬ rits and the Blood, muff be either to di- minifli

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].

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