Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].

  • Thomas Willis
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1679-1681
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Credit: Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 he T A B L E to the Second Part. A. Page. ABdom^ndireBs the motion of the Diaphrag- ma. 12 Air-yof the .influence of the Air for exciting a Con- fumpion. 34 Why thegrojfer or City Air is hclffnl to fame Confnm- ptive perfons and not to others. lb. A fulphitroiis Air helpful to fame Confumptives. ib. Analarca, the defcription of an kmikrca. 123 flow it differs from an Afcites. ib. The Original fr om the Blood. lb. The material&the efficient caufes Anafarca.ib. J-lovo the Blood is acaufe. 124? 125,126 The material caufe of an Anafarca is partly the Se¬ rum of the blood & partly the nutritious juice. 12 6 'Why the hydropick humor of an Anaiarca is limpidy and not milky or bloody. . 127 The differences of this difeafe. ib. The prognofiicks of it. ib. The Cure of it by two indications. ib. The intentions of Cure. 127,128 How furgersworkjipon the humor ofonhXiTTsiC^, 128 Forms of medicines to be taken in an Anaiarca. 129,130,131,132 An example of Cure of this difeafe. 132 Anodines ufeful in aPleurifie. Apozems againfi fpitting of Blood, 54 Againfl the inflammation of the Lungs. 64 Againfi a Pleurifle. 71 Againfl an Afthma. 86 Againfi the Jaundies. 98 Againfi a Tympany. 121 Againfl the Itch. 170 Arteries,, of the afper Artery. 3 Of the pneumonick. Artery. 6 Its defcription and ufe. lb. The matter of a Confumption brought to the Lungs by the pneumonickArtery. 3 o The tracheal Artery a caufe offpitting blood. 51 Afcites, of an AidtQS. 105 See Droplie. Afper Artery what it is. 3 Afthma a terrible difeafe. 82 The evident cauf? of it. 8 3 Why afihmaticalperfms are worfe in bed. ib. Where the morbifick^matter of an Afthma lyes. ib. mixt PAhmapartlypneurnonickypurtly convuL five. 84 The caufes of an Afthma recited. ib. The prognofiicks of this difeafe. ib. The chief indieationsc^ what is to he done in thefit.S 5 FDrifts, of Remedies for this difeafe. 86,87 Two hflories of this difeafe. 88,89 Atrophy in a Confumption depends on the Blood made finfit to nourijh. 26 •Andfometimes pkoceedfrom the fault of the bowels.1-] ■ Ofl^elfe from the nervous fuice. ib. Page. The nervous Juice of it felf fometimes the chief caufe of an Atrophy. ib. Two chief kinds of Atrophys. 28 Too great expence of Seed induces an Atrophy, ib, B. BAlfams good againfi a Cough. 3 8 Belly fy how many caufes the Belly fwells. 115 Why the Belly fwells in the Dead. 116 Bloodythe difpofition of the blood in pneumonickveins.^ The impediments of the Blood in the Lungs. 18,19 ,The opinion of SyWlMS of the fermenting of the Blood in the Lungs. 18 Dr. Willis his opinion of the fame. ib. The caufe of thepneumonickflopping of theblood. 18,19 The reafons of the impediments of the Blood. 19 Why it lodges its Serum in the Lungs. ib. The various cauf ? and ways of doing it. ib. The blood lodged in the lungs caufes infebiion there. 20 The Blood hindred in the LUngs by reafon of its too thick, confiflance. ib. Several other impediments of the Bloodinthe Lungs 20,2 I Want or default of Air an impediment of the blood.2 % The kinds of the confumptive diferafle of the blood.xj It proceeds fometimes from the fault of the bowels.ih. The fault of the Blood fometimes the caufe of a Con- fumption and how. 3 2 Whataffiebiion of the blood produces an inflammation of the Lungs. 50 The Blood not rightly fanguifying the caufe of an A- nafarca. j 13 The reafon of it. n ^ T he hydropickjemper of the BloodJpringsfrom a dou¬ ble refpebl. ib. What they are, 11 ^ Bloodflowing from feveralpartsficQ Haemorrhages, The Remedies toflop Blood. 14 3 fee Hemorrhages. Spitting of Bloody fee Spitting. Blood-letting, lec Phlebotomy. How letting forth the Blood alters it. 137 Bolus good againfl the jaundies. 9S Breafly a difeafe of the Breafi, fee Empyema. Of the Dropfie of the Breafi, fee Dropfie. The chief difeafe of the Breafi is a Confumption or Phthifis. 2 6 What the confumptive difeafes of the Breafi are. 34 Breathing., the Organs of breathing and their ufe. i Of the Mufcles fervtng thereto. 1 o, 11 Wherefore the triangular Mufcle being fmall in aMan is firetched through the whole Bone in a Dog. 12 Of what kind the ablions of Breathing are. i 3 That they are of a mixt Ablion. ib. Of the fundry kinds of Breathing hurt, their caufes and the account of their Symptoms. 17 Breathing hurt by means of the Organs. ib. The ufe and ends of Breathing. ib. Breathing
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