An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern physicians: or a comparison between the practice of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Galen, and Boerhaave, in acute diseases. Intended to shew, what the practice of physick, in such distempers, ought to be / By John Barker.
- John Barker
- Date:
- 1748
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern physicians: or a comparison between the practice of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Galen, and Boerhaave, in acute diseases. Intended to shew, what the practice of physick, in such distempers, ought to be / By John Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![which he gives the Name of *Po$rifza.Tcii (forbitiones) or Barley Gruel*. The Latin and Arabian Phyficians fpeak of another kind of Pti[]'an, befides the two already mentioned, which is that which is made by boiling common Barley, with the Hufk on, in Water; but this may more properly be ranged under the Clafs of Liquors than of Food, being what they made ufe of in Fevers to dilute with -f. The Hippocratick Diet in Fevers then, may properly be diftinguilhed into two kinds, viz. the jull, and the low Diet; the fir ft con lifted of the whole Ptijjan, (Ptijjana iota) and the fecond of the ftrain- ed # We have no Word in our Language which fully anfwers the Meaning of this Term; it figniffes literally Suppings or Spoonmcats, but as it is only applied to one kind ot Spoonmeats, viz. fuch a5 are made of Barley, I could not find a more proper Name for it than what I have here made ufe of, to wit, Barley Gruel. t The Moderns differ from the Ancients in this Point, as they commonly make ufe of the Ptijjana colata, a3 a Diluter in Fevers, which kind of Ptiffan was anciently only ufed for Food.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30530362_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
