Copy 1
Practical observations in physick, wherein is exhibited the aetiology ... of the most prevalent distempers with a ... method of treating them ... With a new hypothesis concerning the cure of apoplexies, palsies, and many nervous complaints. As also of the gout. To which are added, rules and directions how to preserve good health and long life / [Simon Mason].
- Mason, Simon, 1701-
- Date:
- 1757
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations in physick, wherein is exhibited the aetiology ... of the most prevalent distempers with a ... method of treating them ... With a new hypothesis concerning the cure of apoplexies, palsies, and many nervous complaints. As also of the gout. To which are added, rules and directions how to preserve good health and long life / [Simon Mason]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
56/308
![by thefe Tmpoftors. A Gentleman of great Pro¬ bity, whole Veracity I can’t fufpeft, told me this following Story of a Pils-doftor and his female Patient. A young Woman who had heard much Fame of a H oft or in her Neighbourhood, for curing Diftempers, that all other Lectors had given up as incurable, being inform’d by a Neighbour, who was going with a V ater, to this Doctor, offer’d her Service to accom- pany her, which ftie accordingly cid, and they both the next Morning, with their dif¬ ferent Waters and with different Complaints, waited upon the Doclor. The Woman who had been with this Doctor before, had her Bufinds lb on difpatch’d, but this artful young Lais, put the Doctor to his Ne Pius l]ltray with her Water, as he could get no Informa¬ tion from her. The Doctor after leveral Shakes of the Phial, and as many figniScant Inspec¬ tions, feeing fome Streakes of Blood and Mat¬ ter in it, from which the Loft or concludes it to be a Damage by a JBruile, from a Blow, or Fall, which had wrounded the Kidneys, or Bladder, but mofi likely the Kidneys, begins to fhew his Conjuration, by gueffing, that the Perlon had received a Violent Fall, and as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30522481_0001_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
