The generous physician, or medicine made easy: containing plain and exact descriptions of the causes, symptoms, and methods proper for cure of several distempers incident to the human body. With the best receipts in English, and directions ... adapted to ordinary capacities. Written ... for the benefit of those whose narrow circumstances don't enable them to pay the exorbitant fees of a physician / [Sir John Colbatch].

John Colbatch

Date:: [1733]

Credit: The generous physician, or medicine made easy: containing plain and exact descriptions of the causes, symptoms, and methods proper for cure of several distempers incident to the human body. With the best receipts in English, and directions ... adapted to ordinary capacities. Written ... for the benefit of those whose narrow circumstances don't enable them to pay the exorbitant fees of a physician / [Sir John Colbatch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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nz CHAP. III. St. AN? HO NT's FIRE. I SHALL under this Head include likewife the Tetter and Shingles, in regard of: their Affinity to one another, and that all three concur fometimes upon one Place. Eryfipelas, or St. Anthony’s Fire, is a Tumour (depofited within the Skin it felt, or fubjacent Mufcles) arifing from a Vifcidity which obflructs the minute Paffages of the Parts, and attended with a violent Pleat, Inflammation and Pain, and alfo a Fever, where it has not been occaflon’d by an ex¬ ternal Caufe. It feizes commonly upon the Neck, Face, Head,Thighs, or Legs, is of a Colour be¬ tween pale and red, and the Swelling not large, eaflly giving way to the Touch, and as foon returning to its former Extenfion. Where, through an unskilful Management, it comes to fuppurate, a Gangrene is often the Confequence ; or if, after Eruption, it fhould difappear of a fudden, or is imprudently drove back into the Mafs of Blood, without any previous Endeavour to enlarge the Dif- charges by Urine and Perfpiration, the Patient would in cither Cafe be in no fmali Danger: Likewife if a Delirium follows, or the Diflemper has infedted any of the Bowels with its Malignity, the Cure would be both difficult and incertain. The Tetter-fhews it felf in (everal Shapes, fome¬ times disfiguring the Skin with rough hard Puflles, that diffufe their Contagion to the neighbouring Parts, fretting and almofi: ulcerating the Skin when¬ ever they fpread, and without proper Care degene¬ rates into an Elephantiafis [Leprofy] or elfe a Can¬ cer. At another Time it breaks out in the Form of an Ulcer refembling a Pin-hole, but neither in- fhmma-

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