Volume 1

The nature and cures of fluxes; to which is added the method of finding the doses of purgating and vomiting medicines ... together with the doses of these medicines in common use / [W. Cockburn].

  • William Cockburn
Date:
1724
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Credit: The nature and cures of fluxes; to which is added the method of finding the doses of purgating and vomiting medicines ... together with the doses of these medicines in common use / [W. Cockburn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. IV. ~ Alutecedent Caufes of aDI1ARRHOEA, Miee| T is commonly obferyed that cold JS} 2] Weather, arainy and changeable Sea- @FUSS} fon, precede a Diarrhoea. Hippocra- tes fays, ? The Difeafes moft common in ramy Weather are Fevers, a Loofnefs, &c. And afterwards, Befides the mentioned Difeafes, there are, in Summer, tertian and quartan Agues, Vomitings and Fluxes. Unwhol- fome Food often occafions a Loofnefs, and Meat hard to be concocted; as alfo, early and unripe Fruit, atoo great Dofe of a purging Medicine. Old People are fubject to Fluxes, Hippocrates alledges, that Air comjng from the Head © caufes frathy Stools. Hippocrates has long ago warned Phyfi- cians againft the ‘Fallacy. of Experience ; for whoever has but the leat Experience in Phy- fick, muft be fenfible, that he has not made any great Number of Obfervations, before he complains of Experience being fallacious. Nymberlefs Examples might be brought to confirm this Obferyation by Experience ; but as we have already given fome, in _ the fore- 2 Aphor. 46. Sect. 3. 2 » Aphor. 30. ‘See. 7: | going
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