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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    829/954 (page 377)
    Seka Medicinal Comfels of John FcrnH m7^7~7 , --— -------iil Crncilu'Jbitf- Phyjttun to the King. ,, Orris roots, each half an ounce. Plaifter de Murii*.- •, ----——1 Aiakje all into a plainer for his Spleen. Hs* dc Meliloto0 each one ounce* It the difeafe dull ftubbornly continue, the inner voin^i- . r . nes.t faring, if nothing diffivade. His diet muft be ordered ofv !fft be opened, the incline fomewhat to coldnefs. For all hot things are rher/p00d and th,n JtlIce> which fholl whet this fame black cholerbredof yellow chofer over fLch/f contrai7> became they y encreafing the fame alfo, do raife more grievous fymptoms I Jr ^ ^ L3n e%e uPon and thmgs and peppered things, and muftard, and ftrong wine, and u™,h?refore aTOld all fait chufe things of a contrary nature to thefe. a unanxed wine: And let him N * .• ■ • t( * • X * The X L VI. Counfel. I Of letting 'Blood in cafe of the Itch. The Litter of Mfr. Melinus 4 Phy finito Mfr. Fernefrus, (he Am not ignorant of the multitude ofyoar Employments and trouble, c .. , bled with any very grievous difeafe do.flie to you for help as toan Iff', * * ^ troQ' Deity: which thing would peradventure have feared another’man °r Terrene who know the fruitful,!efs of your wit, and how eafie a th in- lU o vo.ho '^r (° y0lh But 1 ftion propounded in the Art of Healing, do knoW alfo, That fame 4nt leJIw ^ qU£' nets,which gives eafie accefs to all in a manner: and therefore °f y0/’!'®aP“ longer vexed with that fcruple, whereof I informed you mU fa Utters w? fdf-« ,bc more eafie for you to take out of my mind, than offer it to me7 to be taken' n u- ,7 H entreat you again and again, that you will be pleafed to do The former Wm^’- uf 1 ulcerous wearmefs, which came of it felt, which practitioner* ( if I ^ x I dl,?t0 an »«- a »ha«ta, <i,,b„,he„d aver HfSSra* .'SSfSiV T time, puflieshave rifen in fundry parts, very dry, and ftickin® vervrW» ,Ju- ku • lncc ' l11 ed off, black and thick blood came out Atlaft a furunculi, Srf/h, ntf ^ fcfch' part of my right Leg, as alfo an Herpes or tetter K *<£ S TV^a remedies. Whereupon I opentd a vein, and took awayalLt three , ft!'on§a' tfc «re e aW uss^ssssijisiff !. Catholicon, Senna, Confeaion Hamech, fometimes addin/Rhubarb r J /u I ' 7, Wltf] afewtopicks, I was cured. Yet about eight d«« gain opened my Bafilica vein, and took away about two ounces of blood Butch- ruV.. a~ Which Claudius Lav alius EmbaiTador from the moft Chriftitn Kin? h1ri 1' * c ^lLll^eoiT fure me,and the Phyfitians were of opinion that I LuS fofe mS Mood rtV vvas this.my blood was very bad, and my age and ftrength were in their prime',or wmadidV n »m°TVer UfedufUCeh 3 k,,nd °f 1^Jood-letting, and that with g/od fucceft Bm I following the mind of'Galen in his fourth Book of prefervation of Health, Ee he difcou?- fes of. ulcerous wearmefs coming of itsown accord, of the Itch and Scabbinefs. ImainSied that I was to Iofe very little or no blood at all. and that for revulfion fake rather than v ma¬ tron. For thus he fares. Whin there is a corning fhon of Hood, or a prouidin, hnJ l famia a man may boldly let blood : which place of Gttlm I thus interpret, when th* hlnnd Z under or over boyling is either crude or cholerick,then there is no danger in lar-^e evacuation thereof.But there werenoneof thofe figns in my urine, which G*/tn a little before laid were l guments of crudity. Moreover, the laft winter foregoing, Idl'd eat for the mofr part on v once a day: therefore that fmall crudity could not perinde me to draw much blood M™- oramyblood isnolehole.ick.o.defiled wid, blockcW»bicb«.,s»ed bl,bb.” V1 and Age which is now declining,and the colour of my whole body which is yellowifh lead-co¬ loured; alfo my by-part labours, cares, and long ftudies, and therefore I ought not to bleed For G.U, te «U,,o ,be M foregoing;ml,theree, „„ li7\ZVtn U, Very m?ch'in fuch not ln bMat *• And by and by after, he fcuesil&ewue* It ts good alfo to view the quantity ; as far txmflts fafy; if there he little fOC.