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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    \ . ; ; ' ,; The XXXVI. Counfd. 1 5 , • . .... ■ .. The Cure of a kng and often returning Feaver for one of the Emperours Qourt, THis plain and diftinft Enumeration of all the figns and fymptomes obferved in this fiefe Gentleman 5 has fet before mine eyes the very exprefs Nature of the Difcafe, and all its caufes both internal and external. His forme, figure, habitude and whole conftitutioti of body, and the integrity of his Funftions, both natural and animal do fticw a laudable natural temper rament: but in that the Iargenefs of his Veins argue that it enclines a little to heat,this is hap- ned by courfe of time and his age, which by little and little has made his body hotter. And now at I aft the heat lias exceeded the bounds of Nature; by reafon of great perturbations of mind-, watchings, cares, troubles, which this Gentleman has undergone in the management of great Affairs. From thefe and the like evident caufes, his Liver 1$ inflamed and enclined to breed much Choller; which being augmented in, tv aft* of time, and comiftg to work and boil, is the efficient catafe of all the Symptemes defevibed. This, even in his healthy time, caufes fudden and vehement Paffions of mind and frequent Wrathfulnefs. The lame is the caufe why his Belly being bound, his Head is offended with a fharp vapour, and the reft of his body not having the benefit of tvanfpiration, is fomefimes hot and fometimes cold, and the palms of his hands and foies of his feet are burning hot/which is alfo a fign of anTaot Liver.. And there¬ fore Choller fo much abounding in the by-paft years, has caufed that the whole body a? it were melting, is fallen into a certain leannefs, and alio that Choller not being timely purged, but kept in, and now and then putrifying,bas many times caufed cholerick Feavers : and that much more often in his latter years, wherein a greater quantity thereof has been colkfted,and when his Body has been fo dilpofed and prepared, that upon the lighted occafions of heat, cold, La¬ bor, Paffionsof Mind and Diet, it is wont to fall into thefe kmd of Feavers : which is an argu¬ ment truly of the inner Caufe abounding, foas to be burchenfome and very troublefome to na¬ ture. Moreover, the fort of Feaver, and the manner of itslnvafion do demonftrate and ex- piefs the inner Caufe : for fh akmg at the firfla biting heat,rednefs and inflammation of his face, with a light raving, a quick pulfe, and refutation quick like wife, Urine red, and thick chole¬ rick Stools towards the end of the Difeafe are all figns of fuperabundance of yellow Choller, which by pevmiftion makes the Blood moft thin and fervent. And therefore both the Feaver, and the caufe of all the fymptoms related, can be referred to nothing elfe but to the exuberance of Choller, and the immoderate heat of the Liver, And thereto belongs die Cure of the Eryfipelas,and all fluxions which fall in-o his thighs ; becaufe the EryfipeliS prefect]y follows the Feaver as a certain Indication thereof, fince it anfes from the fame humor that caufes the Feaver.Biit if fo be any Oedematous or Flegmatick tumor of the feet fhall Teem to have difeuffed the Eryfipelas,though he was wont to have it during fos health, and was thought to be familiar • yet ought it robe fufpefted, and we fhould fearlcaftit be the forerunner of a Cachexy fhortly to follow. For commonly the Liver being obftrufted with much thick Choller,does contraftoblcure rudiments of a fchirrhus, while by degree5 and infen- fibly they gather Head, they caft a man headlong into a Cachexia and Dropfy. Arid though thefe frequent returns of Leavers and defluxions into his thighs are inveterate, and the age of the Patient does now decline. Yet he that (mil take tinje and diligence, he may in that fo lufty and vigorous old age of the Patient promife either a perfeft cure, or very great eafe: efpecially if nothing thall be perceived hard, nor refifting the touch in the right Hypochondri¬ um, nor any trouble fhill be perceived when he lies thereon. Now the fcope ofth e Cure muff betoopentheObftruftionsof the Liver, to purge out the fupevabundant Choller thereof by degrees, and to cool and ftrengthen the bowel itfelf. Which things he that (Rail feafonably performs, hefhall verily take away all the Caufe of the Feaver, draw dry the fountain of de¬ fluxions, and lengthen the Patients life yet many years. In the firft place therefore <dve him a purge of the infufion of two drains of Rhubarb rightly prepared, whereby all that iiiperflui- ty of crude and half-putrid humors 3 Fluftuating in the ftomach, and about the Veins of , ( i th 'n