The practice of physick, in seventeen several books / ... by N. Culpeper, A. Cole and W. Rowland. Being chiefly a translation of the works of L. Riverius ... With these books is bound a physical dictionary explaining hard words.

Lazare Rivière

Date:: 1655

Credit: The practice of physick, in seventeen several books / ... by N. Culpeper, A. Cole and W. Rowland. Being chiefly a translation of the works of L. Riverius ... With these books is bound a physical dictionary explaining hard words. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$12- 'Tr^0ke oj-Tkyfic^ And this is to be obfetved, That it is more ptofitabk and ftfe, not to let out fo much bl«,d at o,Ke asXreqi.ire, butby degt^sinlbmehouts diftance; tor by the repeating ot blood-fctcng, the maCSmore eaWytoOvSi, and the ftrength more prefeved. Look in the lick mans fece aticrhis S tofs of blood, iid feel his pulle; for if his tace be better coUed, and more lively, andhis breath Mte tree, and hi puUegood,Siereismuclihope, airf you may let bl^ foe fcond time SdenS Make the Orifice large, otherwifehewillnotble^, hu blood i^fo thick. The toen^ o“blood he hatli, the moce¥ may lofe; But if flegm aboiuid you muft bleed < paringly, left SfvLtheatbe loft, which is to abfolutenecelfary ford.lcu/ta«anddiftolv^otth|f)ileale., A fineular Example of large and often bleeding in an Apoplexy, is laid down by ZMUtin^ iMfita- SleyL? Muid, fellfirji into agpieralferget^Hinefiof f fmgf mdthenmoatrue Apopkxy, with the £wine of her Courfes ; ‘Vnto whom when they had apflyed many ^Udicmes both abow 'L rubbed her Jmghs^ery well, and placed Jhe^gdn toopenthejugular Veins in Apoplexies, and fay Someof ourlate Prafticmners, me toomaa^^^^ Fnft thSy bind the Neck gently with a Inf¬ ra cS*afterthfv”fo ko^nefi, they flows weUwith^ta Li-. medTcthamhhe toeth Ligatures) in his 79. Obfervation in his firft Book ot the A^iirable Prafiice SytScihere he relate a Story of a moft ftiarp Squmancy; in wfoch, by the advice of moft skd- M Phvtons the TueUlar Veins were opened i from whence followed ( as he laies) a moft dange- SS Sood nXbe ftopt, which brought the Patient very weak. Ziicwnr being font to^ ^oltesGTfew Plaiftet which hein his 5. Book of Method, and 4. Chapter ufeth with good iSeis for ftoppiogblodd in Arteries and Jugulars, and bending the Patients Neck gently, he cocnes to his ftrengtlf aSis cured. This Plaifter is made of Frankinlence Aloes, the hairs Ot a H«e mixc with thewSte’of an Eg, having twice as much Frankinlence as Aloes as §afe» te^ech m the place mentioned fomtimes an equal part of each, when the Bi^ies aie harder. And commen^ fheoi^ticm Sire written whenhefaith. This Plaiftetftopsthefluxofthe Jugular Veins with¬ out a^Ligature or bindine. But this I would take notia of, Tfot the bl^ violently in one that hath an Apoplexy, as m one t hat hath a Squinzy, becaule the blood f fed - i^tofiSXwsinhisSeco^BookofDileaies, in the former, from whence the V^ and Arteril raUed Caioditej or Jugulars, are flopped: ^t m the latter the blood is hot and thin, becaule they who have the Quinzy hare alwaies an acute Fearer 'vitM. phvlitian be A few hours after bidding you muft purge without reipe^ ottime Neither let tn^ Bnyliti^ ^ roo curious S fearful in purling, fince the Difeafe doth mi^chret]uire it, andthecime of thedileafe is hot ul'ually long And that purge ought to be very ftrong becaul e t he humor is ftubborn, and the Se^ Swnel that they caSio! be rouzedot ftirredup withow ftrong Medicos. And that Medicine is ufually one ounce of the Eleauary‘Diiict»rtbii»i«»i, dilfolved in Bettony Water wuh fo«rfcraffee: Jgaricktwo dramf. qingertwofcrupler-. Vennelje^ one ferule- CafiorLgriinr! Infufftbem m a fafficient quantity of‘Bettony Water: three oumes of it firained, dijfolw the 'EkSmtry Viacartbamum three dramf: Syi up of ‘Ue/er one “Ttke4aAkV&elelS,dnedram-, Cajiorthreegrainr: Wttb^ettony Wmrinaksf^ tPiUt, and if the pdity cannot fwallow them, dijfolve them in Sage, Lavender, or‘Bettony Water. ^iakeofCochie<Pilltthegreater,and'PiIlrofJgarickj ‘’ffaehbalfadram: The Troch^ ^ JilhdndS,'Diagridium,andCa!ior, of each three graim: With Honey of }\ofemary,malts‘BtUs, T^^rf^ennaha^an ounce: of white oigarickone dramarU an half -.ofTiirbith one Aram: of&m^d^Q^ThZadraJi: ^oyltLn inSage ami tHofemary Water.. In two ouncea and tmhdlfofthefirqmedLiMorputtwo drams^Vtacartbamum thetEkUuary =, and of Ca- ^*lntie^y,d4SMSfoeslSSldetfromthebegmuingbyrto^^^ Skkrteke^leristhattt^ = ^S;«henthetiiattetisfloWntotheHead,andfticksthere, we may ufe the Purges abov^^- ten*$