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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    her fide, not was rfie troubled with watch ings, but only with a final aH “p ing in the evening. Afterwards by the ufe of feme gentle Remedies, fhe attained her former health. . , r! .-M y? . i r Obferv. 19. A wlrithw or Fclm. - 1 t . .. -v » %*r4 ■ . 1 . <. \ ► r •* 4 * 'Vi ,. ■ V * - • ' ' if- a (5 i o. The Wife of Mfr. SartrauS) Coun- cellor in the Court of Accompts and Subfi- dies, being four daies troubled with a Felon or Whitlow, (lie put her finger into a Cats - Ear, and was cured in a quarter of an _hour. She felt at times an heat come into her fiioul- der and Arm, and defending by little and little with a moft grievous pain of the end ot her finger, which heat would a little while after go away, and then come again with a like pain. And the Cat did violently ftrug- pie by reafon of the pain of her Ear,fo that fhe could hardly -be held by two men. Hence We may colfeL, That there is in the Head of a Cat, ^ i i i • * c c ^ which fympathizes with the qualities ol a Fe¬ lon or Whitlow, by means whereof it draws unto it feif the venome which lies hid in the Tumor. Obferv. 20. A Tertian Ague* ., ] , ■' ' . , y • f I 4 • 611. On the 27 of OBoher, in the year 1646. being called to the Town of Aimar- gaesj to fee the Wife of Mfr.- ColumelUa Au¬ ditor in the Court of Accompts, being twen¬ ty two yeers old, who hid been troubled with a double Tertian levcn daies together, and was once let blood, but took nothing. On the eighth day fhe was let blood again in her left Arm, bccaufe her Spleen appeared Rretched and fwoln. On the ninth day fhe took an Infufion of Senna with half a dram of Cream of Tartar, and on the fame day Crot- lim his Ague Medicament before her fit. On the tenth day tine took the faid Ague-Medi¬ cament again, and her fit came no more. . - - then no fhortnefs of breath, and the Patient performed his wonted bufinefs, going dayly to the Court, nor would he take any Phyfick fave on Holy-daks. I prefently prefenbed him to be let blood twice, and afterward? I purged him, and fo he amended. Ten or twelve daies after he complained of the fame Malady. I prefenbed for him fundry attenuating Medicaments and Cutters which did noT heat , which neverthelefs he took not, being encombred with fundry Affairs. At IaR in the beginning of December, he took his bed with fhortnefs of breath, and fwel- lings in his Legs; and then he ufed the Me¬ dicaments prefenbed, with Phlebotomy re¬ peated, which being continued for twelve daies, and doing no good, but the Malady growing continually worfe, a Counfel of other Phyfitians was called, whofe opinion was, that it was a Difeafe like that mention¬ ed by Galen in his 4. de locis AjfeBisj cap. 8. concerning Antipater the Phyfitian , and fo that it was to be oppofed with cutting and attenuating Medicaments. Sundry forms of Medicaments were prefenbed to this intent, which it were in vain to recount, becaufe they did no good, but the Patient grew con¬ tinually worfe and worfe, being extreamly fhort winded, and no pulfe appearing in hi* wrift, yet his hand being laid upon the Re¬ gion of the Heart, a mofl frequent Palpitati¬ on might be felft, very weak and uneven: for the fwellingof his Legs was fo far encreafed, that it came now up into his Thighs. Reme¬ dies were prefenbed like the former, to which were added Cordials internal and ex¬ ternal. Two daies after the Patient feemed to be at the lafi cafl ; he was extreamly Ri¬ fled, no pulfe appeared in his wriffs, and hardly any in his Heart. The fame day it was conceived he would die, I ordered thereupon a Cupping-glafs to be applyed to the Regfon of his Heart with Scarrification* (by the help whereof Zacutus LvfitanusyOh- fervat. 13 3. Lib. 1. Praxis admiranda^ tefli* Obferv. 21. Palpitation of the Heart, and inequality of the- Pulfe* i * £12. Mfr. de Becharan, Councellor in the Court of Accompts, Subfidies, and the Kings Exchequer, in the beginning of the mbneth November, in theyoer 1646. came to me and complained of a Palpitation of Heart? which for fome dales had troubled him. Feeling his Pulfe I found it unequal in all the kinds of Inequality, fo that it prefent¬ ly brought to my mind that fame Rory in Galen concerning Antipater the Phyfitian whom he conceived to have an dbflruftion in ft his Arteries,or a crude Tubercle. He had deTperate Palpitation of the Heart) where¬ upon he was better, and the following night he began to void by fpitting exceeding black blood, thick and clottered, with a trcuble- fome cough, whereupon he did fetch hk breath more eafily. To help his expecto¬ ration,'he frequently took Syrup of Colts¬ foot with a fourth part of Oxymel Ample, and broth of an old Cock made with Pe£to- al things, once or twice a day. Thefe Re¬ medies being continued four daies together, the Patient continued in the fame condition continually voiding thick and black blood. On the fifth day after his fpitting of blood, which was the fourth of January 1647. I save