A new practice of physic : wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are orderly described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof ... the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham, ... / by Peter Shaw.

  • Peter Shaw
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1728
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Credit: A new practice of physic : wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are orderly described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof ... the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham, ... / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Progm. 4, Tis often mortal; and more certainly fo, flics. if tremors, gnalhing of the teeth, &c. appear’; or if grumous, or fluid blood diftils through the noftrils. , ,, Cure, 5. The cure is the fame as of an apoplexy ; but if the caufe be a retention of the ptenfes] thofe are firft to be promoted, before the diftemper will give way. 6. A phrenitis may turn to a fphacelation of the brain, which is a fuppuration of its fubflance, or a gangrene from an abfcefs therein. This may alfo have for its caufe an acute fever, wounds, contuflons, &c. in the head; rarifa&ion of the blood, producing an inflammation of the velfels in the brain, ftagnation, putrefa&ion, or a mortification; pain in the head, efpecially in the! occiput, communicated to the fpine • a lofs of the! fenfes -3 convulfive motions, &c. An abfcefs from contufion is fignified by the fudden falling down of the patient, a torpor, fad- nefs, fmall fever, augmenting gradually, a vertigo, darknefs of fight, vomiting, haemorrhage at, the ears or nofe, a paralyfis in the fphinffier dniy &c.! from whence an involuntary emiffion of the excre¬ ments, urine and the femen. This cafe is always dangerous, and generally mortal. A cooling diet fhou’d be order’d, and all motion avoided. If it proceeds from inflammation, bleed largely, unlefs weaknefs prevent* and injed purgative glyflers every day. Ufe epifpaftics, fhave the head, and embrocate it. To this purpofe, ly Acet. acerrim. fpt. vin. cumph. lavend, comp. fdl. volat. ok of. aq. hungav, act f. cmbfocutio. Laxative
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