A comment on forty two histories discribed by Hippocrates in the first and third books of his Epidemics. In the first part Hippocrates's pathology is explained, and defended ... In the second part are fourteen histories of the first book of the Epidemics. In the third part are twenty eight histories of the third book of the Epidemics. The general method of curing an epidemical fever is deduced from Hippocrates's histories ... To which is added a Letter [to Dr. John Gibson], to shew that Hippocrates mentions a year of 360 days, which Daniel used, chap. ix. and that prophecy is explained from the copy of it in the Septuagint ... / [Sir John Floyer].

  • John Floyer
Date:
1726
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Credit: A comment on forty two histories discribed by Hippocrates in the first and third books of his Epidemics. In the first part Hippocrates's pathology is explained, and defended ... In the second part are fourteen histories of the first book of the Epidemics. In the third part are twenty eight histories of the third book of the Epidemics. The general method of curing an epidemical fever is deduced from Hippocrates's histories ... To which is added a Letter [to Dr. John Gibson], to shew that Hippocrates mentions a year of 360 days, which Daniel used, chap. ix. and that prophecy is explained from the copy of it in the Septuagint ... / [Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Baths, and Sweating j but if they continue long, they produce a continued putrid Fever: The fecond Caufe of preternatural Heat and Fever, is the Putrifadion of fbme Blood, or its Hu¬ mours, when obftruded in the fecretory Glands5 and the Arteries apd Veins belonging to them. He that confiders the F&tor in the breath of the Feverifh, and in their Sweats, Urines, and Stools, cannot deny that there is a Putrifacli- on of fome Humours in our Fevers. • GALEN fays, this is the moft antient Q- pinion, that all Fevers depend on Putrifadion, except the Ephemeras •<, the Blood is evidently Putrified in infedious Fevers, by a putrined Va¬ pour emitted from animal Bodies, which floats in the Air, and is admitted into a humane Body by Infpiration, or the Pores after Exercife, or with the Saliva, into our Stomachs. Thus the Small-Pox, Meajles, and peflilent Fevers are <J produced by a venomous Ferment, and none can deny the Factor of the Effluviums, and the Putrifadion they produce ; to thefe fort of Fe¬ vers our Bodies are difpofed by moift and hot Seafcns, by Intemperance, violent Exercifes and Paflions, by great Plenitude, or hot Cacochy- mia’s, and hot ftrong Wines. I am perfuaded by the Fjfflories in the Epi¬ demics, that all the fecretipus Humours mix’t with the Blood about t]pf Glands will Putrifie* becaufe they are naturaflyhot andhumid • and when they Stagnate in a warm Place, and are continually agitated by the circulating Blood, tho’ they be at firft vifcid and thick, and only