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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    [»] fore the Crifis, till the fourteenth Day, and the lefs afterwards j the Night before a Fit is al¬ ways Grievous. The fatal Signs are Rigours, Coldnefs, partial Sweats, Naufea, averfion to Meat, want of Thirft, Phrenitis, black Urines, Sad- nefs, Fears, Deliria, Convulfions, no Sweat after a Rigour, Coma, dropping of Blood from the Nofe in fmall Quantity} the want of a Cri- fis, or an Imperfed one, seruginofe Vomits, Relies j the Sick generally Die on the Day, Year, Month, imparibus according to Galen: Many Die thro9 Weaknefs, or the Greatnefs of the Difeafe, in the beginning of a Fever without a Crifis, and in the declination of long Fevers thro’ Weaknefs* but after a good Crifis, the Pulfe grows Stronger, and then they do not Die in the declination of a Fever. Great Ab~ fcelfes cannot be borne by the Weak, and little Ones does not fufficiently Evacuate } there is no Relapfe after an AbfcelTe, becaufe Co&ion and a Crifis preceeded ; and the purulent Mat¬ ter is there fix’t, or evacuated on a Part. Thin Urines are a (ign the febrile Matter is lodged in fome Focus, and therefore it re¬ mains Crude, and cannot be Digefted, or ma¬ turated for its Secretion by the Circulation : The Mafs of Blood is not corrupted in our re¬ mittent Fevers, but is difturbed and agitated by the febrile Matter, obflrufted in fome Glands, that alone is to be Putrified by the circulating Blood, which putrifies all Abfceffes and the fediment in the Urine fhew the Crude, or pu¬ rulent