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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    ['? ] cutaneous Glands, or thofe of the Kidneys,or con - globate Glands,and theLymphatics: And in thefe it will Putrifie, and Effervefle, and produce De- fluxions thro’ the Glands of the Brain, Mouth, Eyes, Ears, Nofe, Lungs, Stomach, Guts, and if Vifcid it inflames and obftrufts them } and all the other Humours may be colliquated into the Serum • and by the mixture of many Humours, various fpecies of Difeafes are made. Galen imputes the Lepra to a nitrous or fait and bitter Humour, and Difeafes are diffin- guiChedby a mixture of the Cacochyrnia’s, with natural Conftitutions , fo wemuft diftinguifh the Gout in a Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic, or ferofe Conftitution, and fo we diftinguifh De¬ fluxions : When the Serum pafles and affecls the cutaneous Glands, Sweats happen, when the Kidneys a Diabetes,when the Liver or Spleen, a Dropfy, when the Lungs, a thin confump- tive Cough, and when the Head, a Coma, Ob¬ livion, Hydrocephaljj^, Heavinefs, Stupidity. The feveral Humours are collected in the fecretory Organs, before the Fever is excited, then fome procatarftic Caufe begins the Putri- faction in the Vetfels, the firft violent Symp¬ toms in a Fever, fhew where the Focus Futridi- ms is, and the fucceeding Symptoms, whither it is carried, and fome times they return to the lower Parts again Critically ; if the Glands are only Obftrufted, they produce chronical Dif¬ eafes, without a Fever \ the obftrucled Bile, the Jaundice, if a little Putrified, the Eryfipelas, being mix’t with Serum, the melancholic Hu¬ mour obflrucled and diffolved in a Serum, is D 2 the