The preternatural state of animal humours described, by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation. And the cure of each particular cacochymia ... To this treatise are added two appendixes. I. About the nature of fevers ... II. Concerning the effervescence tumours, pains, and fluxes of humours ... expecially those in the gout and asthma ... of several cocochymia's [sic] / ... By the author of the ... [i.e. Sir John Floyer].

  • John Floyer
Date:
1696
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Credit: The preternatural state of animal humours described, by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation. And the cure of each particular cacochymia ... To this treatise are added two appendixes. I. About the nature of fevers ... II. Concerning the effervescence tumours, pains, and fluxes of humours ... expecially those in the gout and asthma ... of several cocochymia's [sic] / ... By the author of the ... [i.e. Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C . By AcUs; zsCrem.'Tart. Z\. in Cha¬ momile Flower Pojffet-Drinkf given be¬ fore the Fit, or Juyce of Limons, with Water and Wine, or Spirit of Sulp. ^o drops in Fountain-Water or Purjlain-Water, with Sp. Sulph. 3fs. and Syrup of Limons, 2. Salfo~Acids are Diuretics and Sudo-- rijics; as Tart, Titriol, Sal Armoniac, Arcanum duplicatum^ of any gr. XV; Oc, Cane, 3rs. Or the Salt Mixture of Riverhis.; as Sal Ahfynth, Sfe. Sp, Sulph, gut, xiie Syrup of poppies |fs. Carduiis^Water $uj. Or Mioct Salts ; Sal Ahfynth, Pruned4 Antim, Diaph, ana gr. xv. ^ Bitters have the fame effe(5t of Sweats ing, or re-affimulating the Nutrimus juyees ; as“ Aq, ' Plantag, In], The- riacre 3 i. before the Fit,^ Gentian^ Cen¬ taury^ Feverfews^ Chamomile-Flowers Chamasdrys^ Vervein,^ &c. decoded, and given with Myrrh or Mithridate^ before the Fit; thefe open the Liver, for the better Paflage ot the Choler ; they alfo deputate the - Succus Jfufri- tius, and prevents its putreja^ion in Fevers, . , O 4 Chelan^