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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    [ *8 ] Diftemper has a Pectoral, and Cephalic, as well as an hepatic Focus, hut the bilious Serum is the Caufe of all Symptoms j the Splenetic Juice will alfo diffolve in the Serum, as we find in black Urines, and that being lodged in the Ar¬ teries and Glands of the Spleen, will make a different Putrifadion from the biliofe Serum, but both are ufually Evacuated together by Stools, Vomits, and as they Putrifie, they cir¬ culate into the vena Cava, and being not fo Acrid as the Bile, but bitter Acid, they diffe¬ rently affed the Blood, and make it longer op- preffed and chill, which makes a rigour; and the Humour being communicated by the Veins, and Lymphatics of the Spleen, that Humour being fub Acid, cannot heat the Blood under the time of three Days, and that produces the Pa- roxyfms of a Quartan: And when this Pu¬ trid mix’t Humours arrive at the Brain, they there make a new Focus, and produce Melan¬ cholic Watchings, Deliria, Convulfions, _ and cold Extremities by a weak Circulation j if the Pituita abounds in the Glands of the Stomach, Guts, Pancreas, it there Putrifies and caufes Naufea, Vomits, Gripes, and becaufe it circu¬ lates readily thro’ the Ladeals; that Putrila- ginous Lympha produces the Quotidian : _ We mayobferve that the Chyle is not affimilated into the Blood under twenty four Hours, that the choler cannot be bred under two Days, nor the fpienetic Juice under three Days, there¬ fore the Plenitude of thefe makes the different Paroxyfm j the Serum may be obftruded in the cutaneous