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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    -—___ o made ofPeacoks dung, whole Pieparation and manner of ufe, may be feen in the Author. If the Dncafe do oblimatdy refill the propounded Remedies, you mud fail to a Diet of the De~ coduon of Guajacum. ‘ , ■ , i. i •■< T A Cautery m the fore part of the Head, is much commended by Zacutm hufit anus \\i his hrft Book of Adm table Practice, Obi. 3 8. in theie Words : a certain man was Jo troubled with a dark?*ertigo, that his Brain did almoji continually feem to run round : and when he had tried many Medicines and there was fear of an^ Apoplexy to follow, with no other means {befides general and particular Evacuations, and Fontanels or Ij]ues in divers parts, and a Seton in the nape of the Neclfi) could be cured, but with a Cautery in the fore part of the Head ; by which only {be¬ yond tbt expiation of Phyfitians) / have cured many of the Fallmg-ficknef, letting them run a longtime. CHAP. X. is j • .... ' # \_/ • 1 , fl.yif t Of Tremor, or 'Trembling* . > , • ■ $ , ; * 9 \ . ■ • • v A ■■ v J ‘ ' ! f • p- 1 * ' ''JS . - - ■ f TRemor is called Tin Greek ; it is a voluntary Mot:on depraved, by which the Member ig fomedmes elevated, fometimesdeprefled, through the mutual contention between the faculty* and the part attested. ^ \ • It is called a depraved motion from Galen, z.de fytqpt. cruf* chap. 1. and he faies the fame in his Book of the Difference of Symptomes, chap. 3. but he feems to contradidi himfelf, when in his Book of Trembling, chap. 4. he reckons Trembling among the Motions which are diminished. But that contradidio.i may be reconciled,by laying, that Motion may be cor fidered two vvaies. Either in refped of it feif, or in refpedt of the faculty : If it be conlidered in refpedf of it Self, it is depraved, becaufe it is not in that manner it ought to be ; if it be conlidered in refped of the faculty , it is a diminifhed motion, becaufe it comes from a faculty fo weak that it cannot produce motion Strong enough. But one may inltance, That the adion is ahvaies diminished when it comes from a weak faculty, but never depraved* I anfwer. That it is true if all the adions depend upon the faculty ; but Trembling comes partly from the Faculty, partly from the heaviness of the part; therefore it is a de¬ praved Motion. The moving faculty defiveth to lift up the Member, and to keep it in that Polition • blit the'weight of the Member preSfeth it downwards, whence comes a trembling Motion. CA’ISES, The Mediate Cctufe of Trembling, is weaknes of the Motive faculty, or rather of its neereSt InRmments, that is, the Animal Spirit, which is not able to exercife a voluntary Motion perfebtly. The Spirits are made weak, either by a fault in themfelves* or by a defed in the Serves, which are , the Conduit Pipes by which they are earned, do ad. The fault is in the Spirits, either when they are but few at the firft* or when they are afterwards 'diilipued. ' They a e few at the firfbeither by reafon of the cold diftemper of the Brain,as in old men,or through the want of vital Spirits, which are the matter of which the animal are made. The Spirits are diRpned Tom many external Caufes, as immoderate Evacuations,much ufe of Ve~ nevy and unfeafonafale, great pain, and conflant faffing, fovrow,and long violent Difeafes. The Spirits are hurt by defedl in the Nerves, and are Weakened either when the Nerves are too cold,or are infected, with a malignant quality or obftmdion or comprcfTed. • They grow too cold, either from cold Air, front ufe of cold meats, or much drinking of Water? fwimmmg often in cold water and the like* They are infected by the ufe of Opium, Henbane,Poppy,and the vapor of Quick-filver, as it is feen inGold-fmrhs,and them which have the French Pox lad have been cured with the fume of Cm- naber. So in malignant FeaVers tremblings come alfo (which are rather to be accounted ConvulfivC Motions) and alfo they come from the provocation or irritation of the Nervous parts. They are.ftopped not wholly, as in a Palfey* but much lefs, but by the fame Caufe, namely* a wa¬ tery humor gently fpdnkied upon th$ Nerves j which is produced of gluttony, drunkennefs, and other C*uufcs. 1 ' v .*• x ■ u ■ ■* ■ ., 1, '* Lafily, Trembling may come from compreffion ofthe Nerves, when excrementitious humors a* born ling in the whole Body do Coffiprefs the Nerves, and hinder the free paflage of the Animal SfJ- rits. * • ■ ■ ■ ■ ‘ Hercules S.axonia,\)zfidesthe c^tife^ mentioned borrowed Tom Galen, acknowledged] another Tnm r coming of wind ; andVManm anotberfrom pain in nervous parts’: But they are deceived, becaufe the Motions produced from thofe Caufes are to be referred to Palpitation, or Con.vuUive Motion* .