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 Lazarus 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. With ... a physical dictionary, explaining the hard words used in these books.

  • Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655
Date:
1678
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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 Lazarus 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. With ... a physical dictionary, explaining the hard words used in these books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ThePraU:ice of Phyfick. Book I; But becaufethe firB four have their peculiar Organs or parts ^which have divers Difeafes ' fVhen the actions of the Brain are hindred in refp^^^ of motion^ there arifeth Con- vulfton^Falling-Sicknefs^Pdlfej apoplexy,Giddrnejs^orfwimming of the Head,calledyQT- ■t\^o,andTremhling. finally,when the a^ing or working of the Brain is hurt or hinder- ed'in its Nutrition, t?rNourifhment,V/>e Difeafeis either in diftemperature, ordifor^ der of the excrement of the Brain^of which cometh a Catarrh,Defluxion or Distillation, I. I Of the Cold Digemper of the ‘B rain. A LI Diftempers are ufually divided intoSimpIe, and Compound*, Material, and Immaterial. Simple orfinglediftempers are feldom feen^as alfo immaterial diftempers,for they come from Primary Caufes,and either vanifh of their own accord^or with very fmall Remedies or Medicines: But Material Diftempers produce all the difeafes of the Head ^ therefore we will fall clofe to dit courfe of them *, which few Authors have done in handling them feverally, becaufe in the laying down ofthe Difeafes which are produced of thofe diftempers, they are fufficiently explained. We therefore will transfer the handling of the hot diftempers of the Brain,and alfo the moift and dry diftempers, to the Chapters which contain thofe difeafes which are produced from them. But be¬ caufe the greateft number of Difeafes of theHead come from a cold and moift diftemper ofthe Brain, we thought fit to difcourfe of that by it lelf in the beginning of this ^Ireatftqthat the cure of that may be as the Foundation ofthe Cure of all Difeafes coming from thence, and that the Me¬ dicines may be found in this Chapter which appertain to the Cure of their caufe: Therefore we will avoid the vain repetition of thofe difeafes,which is the Cuftom of almoft all Writers of pradfi- cal Phyfick, who by that means enlarge their Volumes, and make the Art more difficult and tedious to young Beginners. The cold diftemper of the Brain which is compound and Material, or joyned with Mafter,is for the moft part waterifh and mpift^becaufe the Brain is that mother of moiftureor Flegm,and Cold* nefs long abiding draws moiftufe to it felf. For albeit fometimes it is joyned with a melancholy hu¬ mor, yet thatHiunipr is feldbm begot in the Brain as Flegm is,but it is for the moft part lodged in theor parts beneath the Ribs,and fent from thence to the Brain, whereby moft greivdus Symptbrn^arc produced. v>,Ci4'L;5:E5./TheCaufes ofa cold and FlegmaVick diftemper of the Brain are thefe * I'.CoId and moift meats which eafily turn into Flegm*,and alio in the time of their Conco^ion,by cooling the Stomach and the Liver too much,produce abundance of Flegm,which after is fent up to tlieBrain. ^ , . • ■ 2. Tpo.greaVa^uantity, not only of Meats which are too cold, but alfo of good and wholfome, wnicndeftroyetli,th\ Natural heat, and begetteth Crudities. 3.Lating prefently after or/before meat,and before the former meat is concofted ^ whence come many Crudities, which fend Flegm to the Head# 4. The