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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    C ] caufe in wet Seafons the Serum and Putrifaftion abounds, and then thepreifure of the Air is lefs, then in the dry, the Bile bred in the Sum¬ mer is ftopt in its Perfpiration by wet, and Fe¬ vers have their ardor from Bile, and that is al- fo the caufe of Delirium and Phrenfy. I n dry and warm Seafons, few burning Fe¬ vers, very mild, nor parotides to Suppurate, dry Coughs, Inflammation in the Stones. Con- fumptions very fatal. Semitertians with horrour and coldnefs, Loofenefs, biliofe fmall Stools, Hsemorrhagies by Stools, Urine ; thefe Fevers ceafed, and the relapfes continued in fome as long as the Fever, in others a leiler time ; a Phrenfy with a caufus has a Crijts on the fixth, or eleventh, or twentieth Day. D R y Seafons have many Confumptions, dry Inflammations in the Eyes, Gouts, Stran¬ guries, in thefe the Serum is wanting, as in mod Inflammations, and both great Heat or Cold makes the Humours vifcid, which flops the Circulation, caufes Pains and Heat, and that procures a purulent Sanies, which paffes thro’ the Veins and Lymphatics, and irritates a fe- verifh Pulfe. All thofe who have the quality of the preternatural State in their Conftitution, thro’ a vitious Regimen, are difpofed to fuch Difeafes as happen by the ill State of the Air, and fuch Conftituticns can only be preferved by a Regimen, contrary to the evident Quali¬ ties of that State, and their depraved Confti- tution. AH the Vifcera fuffer by Defiuxions, the Liver, Spleen, Kidneys, Lungs, Brain; all