Of Medicine, in Eight Books

Book I. Page

PREFACE 1

CHAP. I. Rules for the healthy, 16

II. Rules for valetudinary people, 17

III. Observations suited to new incidents, and the different constitutions, sexes, and ages; and the seasons of the year, 19

IV. Rules for those that have a weakness in the head, 26

V. Directions for those that labour under a lippitude, gravedo, catarrh, and disorders of the tonsils, 27

VI. The proper regimen for people liable to a purging, 28

VII. Rules for those that are liable to a pain of the colon, 29

VIII. Rules for one that has a weak stomach, 29

IX. Directions for those that are liable to pains of the nerves, 30

X. Directions in a pestilence, 31

BOOK II.

PREFACE, 33

CHAP. I. Of the different seasons, weather, ages, constitutions, and the diseases peculiar to each, 34

II. Of the signs of an approaching illness, 38

III. Good symptoms in sick people, 39

IV. Bad symptoms in sick people, 40

V. Signs of long sickness, 42

VI. The symptoms of death, 43

VII. Of the signs in particular diseases, 46

VIII. What symptoms are dangerous, or hopeful in particular diseases, 52

IX. Of the cure of diseases, 59

X. Of bleeding, 60

XI. Of cupping, 64

XII. Of purging by internal medicines and clysters, 65

XIII. Of vomiting, 67

XIV. Of friction, 68

XV. Of gestation, 70

XVI. Of abstinence, 71

XVII. Of sweating, 72

XVIII. The different kinds of food and drink, 74

XIX. General properties of different foods, 77

XX. Of things containing good juices, 78

XXI. Of foods containing bad juices, 78

XXII. Of mild and acrid things, 79

XXIII. Of those things which generate a thick and a fluid phlegm, 79

XXIV. Of what agrees with the stomach, 80

XXV. Of things hurtful to the stomach, 80

XXVI. Of those things which occasion flatulencies; and the contrary, 81

XXVII. Of those things which heat and cool, 81

XXVIII. Of what is easily corrupted in the stomach, 82

XXIX. Of what opens the belly, 82

XXX. Of what binds the belly, 83

XXXI. Of diuretic meats and drinks, 83

XXXII. Of soporiferous, and exciting substances, 84

XXXIII. Of those things which draw, repel, or cool, or heat, or harden, or soften, 84

BOOK III.

CHAP. I. General division of distempers, 86

II. General diagnostics of acute and chronic, increasing and declining diseases; the difference of regimen in each; and precautions necessary upon the apprehension of an approaching illness, 87

III. Of the several kinds of fevers, 89

IV. Of the different methods of cure, 91

V. Particular directions for giving food in the different species of fevers, 95

VI. The proper times for giving drink to persons in fevers; and the kinds of aliments suited to the several stages of the distempers; together with some general observations, 99

VII. The cure of pestilential, and ardent fevers, 103

VIII. The cure of a semitertian, 105

IX. The cure of slow fevers, 105

X. Remedies for the concomitant symptoms of fevers, 107

XI. Remedies against a coldness of the extremities, preceding a fever, 108

XII. The cure of a shuddering before fevers, 109

XIII. The cure of a quotidian fever, 110

XIV. The cure of a tertian, 111

XV. The cure of a quartan, 112

XVI. The cure of a double quartan, 113

XVII. The cure of a quotidian arising from a quartan, 114

XVIII. Of the several kinds of madness, and their cure, 115

XIX. Of the cardiac disorder, and its cure, 121

XX. Of the lethargy, and its cure, 123

XXI. Of the several species of the dropsy, and their cure, 124

XXII. Of the several species of consumptions, and their cure, 129

XXIII. Of the epilepsy, and its cure, 133

XXIV. Of the jaundice, and its cure, 135

XXV. Of the elephantiasis, and its cure, 136

XXVI. Of apoplectic patients, and their cure, 137

XXVII. Of a palsy, and its cure, 138

Of a pain of the nerves, 139

Of a tremor of the nerves, 139

Of internal suppurations, 140

BOOK IV.

CHAP. I. Of the Internal parts of the human body, 141

II. Of the disorders of the head, and their cure, 144

Of pains of the head, and a hydrocephalus, 144

Of the cynicus spasmus, 146

Of a palsy of the tongue, 147

Of a catarrh and gravedo, 147

III. Of diseases of the neck, and their cure, 149

IV. Of diseases of the fauces, 151

Several species of angina, 151

Difficulty of breathing, 152

An ulcer in the fauces, 154

A cough, 154

A spitting of blood, 155

And their cure, 157

V. Of the disorders of the stomach, and their cure, 158

VI. Of pains of the sides and a pleurisy, and their cure, 161

VII. Of a peripneumony, and its cure, 162

VIII. Of the diseases of the liver, and their cure, 164

IX. Of the diseases of the spleen, and their cure, 165

X. Of the diseases of the kidneys, and their cure, 166

XI. Of the cholera, and its cure, 167

XII. Of the coeliack distemper of the stomach, and its cure, 169

XIII. Of the distemper of the small gut, and its cure, 170

XIV. Of the distemper of the large intestine, and its cure, 171

XV. Of a dysentery, and its cure, 172

XVI. Of a lientery, and its cure, 174

XVII. Of worms in the belly, and their cure, 175

XVIII. Of a tenesmus, and its cure, 175

XIX. Of a simple purging, and its cure, 176

XX. Of the diseases of the womb, and their cure, 178

XXI. Of an excessive discharge of semen, and its cure, 180

XXII. Of the diseases of the hips, and their cure, 181

XXIII. Of a pain in the knees, and its cure, 182

XXIV. Of the diseases of the joints of the hands and feet, and their cure, 182

XXV. Of the treatment of patients recovering, 184

BOOK V.

PREFACE, 186

CHAP. I. Medicines for stopping blood, 187

II. Agglutinants and restringents, 187

III. Medicines for promoting a suppuration, 188

IV. Medicines for opening wounds, 188

V. Cleansers, 188

VI. Corroding medicines, 189

VII. Eating medicines, 189

VIII. Caustics, 190

IX. Medicines for forming crusts upon ulcers, 190

X. Resolvents for crusts, 190

XI. Discutients, 191

XII. Evacuating and drawing medicines, 191

XIII. Lenients, 191

XIV. Incarning medicines, 192

XV. Emollients, 192

XVI. Cleansers of the skin, 192

XVII. Of the mixture of simples, and the proportion of the weights, 193

XVIII. Of malagmas, in all thirty-six recited, 194

XIX. Of plaisters, in all twenty-nine recited, 201

XX. Of troches, in all seven recited, 207

XXI. Of pessaries, in all seven recited, 208

XXII. Medicines, used either in a dry form, or mixed with liquids, 210

XXIII. Of antidotes, and their use, 212

XXIV. Of acopa, 213

XXV. Of catapotia, 214

XXVI. Of five different kinds of disorders incident to the body; and of the nature, symptoms, and cure of wounds, 217

Bad consequences from wounds, 230

Cure of an old ulcer, 231

Cure of an erysipelas, 232

Cure of a gangrene, 232

XXVII. Of wounds caused by bites, poisons taken internally, and burns, 235

XXVIII. Of external disorders proceeding from internal causes, and their cure, 240

Of a carbuncle, 241

Of a cancer, 242

Of a therioma, 244

Of the ignis sacer, 245

Of the chironian ulcer, 246

Of ulcers occasioned by cold, 247

Of the scrophula, 247

Of a furuncle, 248

Of phymata, 248

Of a phygethlon, 248

Of abscesses, 248

Of fistulas, 250

Of the cerion ulcer, 253

Of the acrochordon, &c. 254

Of pustules, 256

Of the scabies, 257

Of the impetigo, 258

Of the papula, 258

Of the vitiligo, 259

BOOK VI.

CHAP. I. Of hairs falling off the head, 261

II. Of a porrigo, 261

III. Of the sycosis, 262

IV. Of the areæ, 263

V. Of vari, lenticulæ, and ephelides, 264

VI. Of the disorders of the eyes, carbuncles of the eyes, pustules, wasting, lice in the eye-lids, dry lippitude, dimness, a cataract, palsy, mydriasis, a weakness, and external hurts in the eyes, and the various collyriums adapted to each disorder, 265

VII. Of the diseases of the ears; pain, pus in the ears, worms, dulness of hearing, a noise, extraneous bodies in the ears, 281

VIII. Of the diseases of the nose, 287

IX. Of the toothach, 288

X. Of the diseases of the tonsils, 290

XI. Of ulcers of the mouth, 291

XII. Of ulcers of the tongue, 293

XIII. Of parulides and ulcers in the gums, 293

XIV. Of an inflammation of the uvula, 295

XV. Of a gangrene of the mouth, 295

XVI. Of parotid swellings, 297

XVII. Of a prominent navel, 297

XVIII. Of the diseases of the private parts, 298

Diseases of the anus, rhagadia, and condylomata, 303

Of the hæmorrhoides, 304

Of a prolapsus of the anus or womb, &c. 305

XIX. Of ulcers in the fingers, 306

BOOK VII.

PREFACE, The province of surgery, &c. 306

CHAP. I. Of contusions 310

II. Of the operations necessary in suppurated tumours 310

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