Volume 2

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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    O'Jap.To. _ 0/Tfemof3 or TYimbling, 3^: fliadeof Pcacoks dungywhofe Preparation and itiannei: of life, m^y be' feeb in the AuthoV. If the Difcafe do oMikiate^^ refilt the propounded Remedies, you fhll'to a tyfet of the De-i codtion of Guajacum. . .1 , : A Cautery in the fote part of the Head , is' 'much commended by Zacutki Lupanw in i hisfitft B<X>k of Admirable Practice, Obf. 3 8. in thefC vtords • A certain m'A tias Jo trouble'^ mth H i ^(irkJ''eriigo-) that his Brain did almofi continually feem to rm round i dAd vthen he hdd tried ikan) Medicines, and there «as fear of an Ap’r-plexy to follow] mth no ether rAeahs fjtejdet general and particular Evacuations, and Fontanels or JJues in divers parts,'and it Seton in tht nape cf \ the Neck^) could be cured, hut Ttith a Cautery .in the fore part of the Head i by ivhich only (Le- yond the expeflation of Phyjitians) I have cured ptany of the Falling-Jicknef, letting them run a 1 lono time. . ; n ^’h'ap^x; - - Of Tremor, or T*remhling. • ' ' ■ ■' TRemor is called in Greek ; it is a voluntary Motion d‘pr^ived, by which the Member fometimes elevated, fometimesdepreffed, through the mutual contention between the ficUlty,: aiid the part aftedted. . • It is called a depraved motion from Galen, 2.,de f)pj:t. ctuf. chap. i. and he faies the fame in hlsBookoftheDifferenceofSymptomeS,chap. 3.bLithefeems to contradidi himfel£, when in his Book of Trembling, chap. 4. he reckons Trembling among the Motions which are diminilRed. But that contradidio/i maybe feconciled,by faying, that Motion may be coi fidered two waies. Either in relpedl of it lelf, or in vefpeCt of the faculty : If it be confidered in refpedl of it felf, it is depraved, becaufeit is not in that manner it ought to be; if it be confidered in refpefl of the faculty, it is a dmiinillied motion, ‘becaufe it comes from a faculty fo weak that it cannot produce morion Bronp enough. Biit one may inffairce, That the aftion is alvvaies diminilEed when it comes from a weak bacqlty, but never depraveef. l^ani'wer; That it is true if all the aClions depend upon the faculty • bur Trembling comes partly from the Faculty, partly from the heavinefs of the part • therefore it is a de- p,-.,ved hfotion. • ■ ■ ■ The moving faculty defireth to lift up the Member, and to keep it in that Pofition 5, but the weight of the Memberprefleth it downwards, whence comes a trembling Motion. • CAUSES, The'M'ediatc Caufe of Trembling, is weaknesof the Motive faculty, or rather ef its neer.ert In£[rumcnts, ihatis, the AnimaJSpiritjVvhichisnot able to exercife a vbluhtary Motioil perfebtly. • The Spirits are made weak, either by a fault in themfelves, or by a defedb in the Nei'ves, which are the Conduit Pipes by which they ate carried, do a£l. ■ The fault is in the Spirits, either when they are but few at the firft; or when they are afterw'ardsi dilfipated. They are few at the hrft,either by reafon of the cold diftemperofthe Brain,as in old men,or through (he w.lnt of vital Spirits, which are the matter of which the animal are made. The Spirits are^diTpited f.om many external Caufes, as immoderate Ev.acuations,ffluch ufe of Ve- nery and unfeaforiable, great pain, and conflant fafting, fbvrow,and long violent Difeafes. ‘ The Spirits ate hmt by defedl in the Nerves, and arc weakened cither when the NCrves are too cold,'br are infeCled With a malignant quality or obflrui^ion or compre{fed. - • They grow too cold, either from cold Air, from ufe of cold meats, or much drinking of Watef^ fvvimmiug often.ill cold water and thd litre. , ^ . They are infcCldd by the ufe of Opium, Henbane,Poppy,and the Vapor of ^ick-filver, as it tSi feen in Gold - unit hSjJnd them vVhich’have the French Pox^nd have been cured with the fume of Ciri^ naber. So iil mab^aant FerlveTS tremblings come alfo (which are rather to be accounted ConvulfiVe Motions) and alfb-they come from the provocation or irritation of rife Nervous parts. • ■ , They are flopped not wholly, as in a Palfey, but much lefs, but by the fame Caufe, namely, a wa^ tery Irimor gently fprinkled upon-the Nerves, which is produced ofgfuttony, drunkennefs, and other Laffly, Trembling may come from comprefTion of the Nerves,, when excrementitious humors a- born'iing in the vvhole Body do comprefs the Nerves, and hinder the ffe^ paffage of the Animal Sf i- rits. Hercules Saxonia,hMtz\\\z catifes mentioned borrowed fxom Galen, acknowledgeth anOthef Trem r coming of wind ; and Cardanm another from pain in nervous parts; But they are deceived, becaufe the Motions produced from thofe Caufes are to be referred to Palpitation, or COnvulfiYe-' Motion.