Volume 1

The practice of physick. In seventeen several books. Wherein is plainly set forth, the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs; together with the cure of all diseases in the body / By Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... And William Rowland ... Being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarius Riverius ... To which are added, four books containing five hundred and thirteen observations of famous cures. By the same author. And a fifth book of Select medicinal counsels. By John Fernelius ... As also a physical dictionary.

  • Lazare Rivière
Date:
1668
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Credit: The practice of physick. In seventeen several books. Wherein is plainly set forth, the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs; together with the cure of all diseases in the body / By Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... And William Rowland ... Being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarius Riverius ... To which are added, four books containing five hundred and thirteen observations of famous cures. By the same author. And a fifth book of Select medicinal counsels. By John Fernelius ... As also a physical dictionary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /* 'V ) For the Cure of this Difeafe, this is a good Prefervative: Take of Spirit of Wine four ounces : Spirit of Caftpr one ounce: Peony Roots three ounces : Let them h infufed ami ftratned. Waih the whole body ot the child with it warmed. CHAP. IX. Of (fiddineff, called V ertigo. A Vertigo is a falfe Imagination, in which all objefts and the head it rdf feem to turn round, fo as the Patient often fals to the ground, unlefs he lay hold on fome flay at hand. It may be objected, That in a Vertigo the Imagination is not hurt, for if it were fo, the Pa¬ tients would think the objects truly turned round • as men in Madnefs and Phrenzy do think what they imagine to be truly fo. We anfvver, That in a Vertigo the Reafon is not hurt, which percei- veth the error of the Imagination • but in a Phrenzy, or Melancholy, the Reafon is hurt as well as the Imagihat on. DIFFERENCES. There are two forts of Vertigo’s • the one fimple,called in Greek in which the Sight remains unhurt: the other is called or <rxoTo//y©-3 a dark Vertigo, in which the Eyes are both darkned as it were with fmoak, or a cloud. In both kinds the Sight is fomewhat hurt, becaufe the Spirits which life to go diredfly to the Eyes., are moved out of order by the Vifne Nerve, by reaion whereof the Eye doth not fo fitly enjoy them. But in a dark Vertigo there is a more violent Motion of the Spirits,fo that they come lefs to the Eyes, from whence the fight is darkned or hindred. - CAUSES. The immediate Caufe of a Vertigo, is the circumvolution of the Spirits coming ofa vaporous matter or wind, which coming into the Ventricles of the Brain, Plexus Choroide sAi- fturbs the Spirits, and makes them run round; whence the fpecies of the Obje&s brought by thofe fpirits are moved in like manner; and fo the obje&s themfelves feem to be moved alfo the fame way .But here we may doubt,fince a Vertigo is the fymptom ofa hurt a£hon,and every a&ion hurt de¬ pends immediately upon a difeafe, how the Circumvolution of the Spirits can be the immediate caufe of a Vertigo, when it can be referred to no kind ot Difeafe. To which we thus anfvver, A Circum¬ volution of the Spirits is a Difeafe in refpedt of Scituation ; for at that time the Spirits do not keep that place or pofition which naturally ought, but move preternaturally and amifs. And this anfwec hath a weighty inftance : For a Diieafe is an affe&ion of a true part, but fpirits are not true parts* We anfvver. That Axiomeis not alwaies, but lometimes true, according to Galen that which is principal and hinders the adtiorrof its felf, is the true Difeafe : We fay that the Word [Part] ought to be taken in a larger fenfe, comprehending all thofe things which go to the making up of the body, and whatsoever hinders the adlion of any part, is called a Difeafe* So a yellow color in the Eye, hurts the fight immediately, and therefore it is called a Difeafe in number; fo a bitter favor in the tongue, and noife in the Ears, are Difeafes in number, in regard there is fomething in thofe parts befides, which offendeth the actions. After the fame manner is the Circumvolution of the Spirits, a Difeafe in Scituation or Pofition, for the Reafon above mentioned. * But thofe Vapors are fent up from evil humors, not continually without interm iffion, but by com- pafs and going about, and at a diftance, namely, as often as they are raifed up by an external caufe • and the humors are fucji as ufe to produce vapors, namely, Blood, Choller, Flegm, and Melancholy*, and the watery Humor; becaufe both a cold as well as a hot vapor may caufe a Vertigo; as Galen^ 3*delee. affect.chap. 8. and Comment. Aphor. 2 3-Seft. 5; Thefe evil humors are either contained in the Brain, or in the inferior parts. Hence a twofold Vertigo anfeth, one Proper, the other by Confent. Waterifh and flegmy humors heaped up in the Brain fend Wind and vapors to its ventricles, which ftirring about there, do caufe a Vertigo. And fo a proper Vertigo comes to be a forerunner of an Epilepfy or Apoplexy. - But Humors contained in the inferior parts efpecially the ftomach and the fpleen,do eafily fend up Vapors to the head, which if they touch the Ventricles aand the Arteries, caufe a Vertigo. The external Caufes are all fuch things as will quickly diflolve the Humors, and turn them to Va¬ pors, or make an inordinate motion in thofe Valors. Among which are reckoned by Hyperatesy Aphor. 17. Se£t 3. a South wind, and fudden change of Air. To thefe add the heat of the Sun, windy Meats,Garlick, Muftard, Radifh,Peafe and Beans,Drunkennefs,Gluttony,immoderate Exer- cife,and unfeafonable, the fuppreflion of a wanted evacuation, Anger,Baths,Hunger,efpecially in thofe which are full of bitter Choller, often turning of the Body round, long looking upon Wheels and \ 'V ' H i s thing*