[The oracle for the sick.]

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Title
[The oracle for the sick.]
Author
Groeneveldt, Jan, 1647?-1710?.
Publication
[London? :: s.n.,
1685?]
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Subject terms
Diagnosis -- History -- 17th century -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Cite this Item
"[The oracle for the sick.]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42185.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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CHAP. II. For Males.

HE is married, a Widower or a Bat∣chelor.

He has not been able to keep his Seed 1, 2, 34, 5, 6, 7, 8 days, weeks, months, years: which is thin or thick, watry, white, or [ 25] it discolours his linnen: of a yellow or green colour, of a bad scent: he voids it with pain, or without perceiving it: when

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he makes or makes not water, before or after he has made water: mingled with his urine or not.

Runs often or seldom.

In a great, midling, or small quantity. [ 5]

With, or without erection of the Yard.

Having, or not at all having his Yard swollen.

With, or without swelling of the Nut.

With, or without swelling of the Fore∣skin [ 10] or of the skin that covers the Nut: which skin covers or uncovers the Nut easily, or cannot cover it, or else cannot uncover it.

With, or without smarting in the pas∣sage. [ 15]

With, or without an Ulcer upon the Nut, or upon the skin that comes over it: which Ulcer has edges hard or soft, has proud flesh, or is even or hollow, has been [ 20] cured and is come again, or has not been cured at all, but is a little diminished.

He has had for some days, months or years the kernels of his Groin large, soft, hard, with, or without pain: which have Matter in them or not, of the big∣ness [ 25] of a small nut, walnut, an egg, of the bigness of ones fist or bigger: his Cods or Stones are swollen, with or without the

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coming down of a Gut, which goes up a∣gain in the night, or does not go up again into its place,

He hath pimples or warts upon the Nut, or upon the skin that covers the Nut. [ 5]

He hath a Carnosity in the passage of his Yard, that stops his water: which may then be known, when putting in a wax Candle one finds some resistence.

Which Accidents have lasted

Years.Mon.Days.Hours.
1234111223112
5678221324213
9101112331425314
13141516441526415
17181920551627516
21222324661728617
25262728771829718
29303132881930819
333435369920 920
37383940101021 1021
4142just, 111122 112223
or thereabout. just, or thereabout.

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