The disease of London, or, A new discovery of the scorvey [sic] comprising the nature, manifold differences, various causes, signs, prognostics, chronology, and several methods of curing the said disease by remedies, galenical and chymical : together with anatomical observations, and discourses on convulsions, palsies, apoplexies, rheumatisms, gouts, malignant fevors, and small pox, with their methods of cure and remedies : likewise, particular observations on most of the fore-mentioned diseases / by Gideon Harvey ...

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The disease of London, or, A new discovery of the scorvey [sic] comprising the nature, manifold differences, various causes, signs, prognostics, chronology, and several methods of curing the said disease by remedies, galenical and chymical : together with anatomical observations, and discourses on convulsions, palsies, apoplexies, rheumatisms, gouts, malignant fevors, and small pox, with their methods of cure and remedies : likewise, particular observations on most of the fore-mentioned diseases / by Gideon Harvey ...

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Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?

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London :: Printed by T. James for W. Thackery ...,

1675.

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Scurvy -- Early works to 1800.

Smallpox -- Early works to 1800.

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"The disease of London, or, A new discovery of the scorvey [sic] comprising the nature, manifold differences, various causes, signs, prognostics, chronology, and several methods of curing the said disease by remedies, galenical and chymical : together with anatomical observations, and discourses on convulsions, palsies, apoplexies, rheumatisms, gouts, malignant fevors, and small pox, with their methods of cure and remedies : likewise, particular observations on most of the fore-mentioned diseases / by Gideon Harvey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43016.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE MOST MIGHTY, AND MOST INVINCIBLE MONARCH, Charles II. KING of Great BRITAIN, France, and Ireland.
• THE PRAEFACE.
• THE DISEASE OF LONDON. CHAP. I. Containing A Praemissory Discourse of the SCORVEY.
• CHAP. II. Of the Mouth-Scorvey.
• CHAP. III. Of the Leg-Scorvey.
• CHAP. IV. Of the Joynt-Scorvey.
• CHAP. V. Of the Causes of the Mouth-Scorvey.
• CHAP. VI.
• CHAP. VII. Of the Procatarctic or Exter∣nal Causes of the Mouth-Scorvey.
• CHAP. VIII. Of a second different internal Cause, being the cause of some Leg-Scorveys, and many or most Terminato∣ry Scorveys; namely Sa∣ponary Blood.
• CHAP. IX. Of the Procatarctic Causes of Lixivial Alcalized Salt, in Scorbutique Blood.
• CHAP. X. Comprizing the Examination of Scorbutic Principles proposed by a late Author.
• CHAP. XI. Containing Practical Ob∣servations Praeliminary to most Scorveys.
• CHAP. XII. Declaring a further Illu∣stration of a Saponary Leg-Scorvey.
• CHAP. XIII. Of the Causes of Scorbutic Symptoms.
• CHAP. XIV. Of the Description of the Scorvey.
• CHAP. XV. Of the Differences of the Scorvey.
• CHAP. XVI. Of the Diagnostick Signs of the SCORVEY.
• CHAP. XVII. Of the Causes of a Termi∣natory-Scorvey.
• CHAP. XVIII. Chronology of the Scor∣vey.
• CHAP. XIX. Of the Praesages of the se∣veral Degrees and Kinds of Scorvey.
• CHAP. XX. Of Praeservatives against the Scorvey.
• CHAP. XXI. Of the Therapeutique in the Scorvey.
• CHAP. XXII. Of Antiscorbutic Laxa∣tives.
• CHAP. XXIII. Of Scorbutique Purga∣tives.
• CHAP. XXIII. Of Antiscorbutic Altera∣tives.
• CHAP. XXIV. Of Specific Alteratives in a Lixivial and Saponary Scorvey.
• CHAP. XXV. Of the Cure of a Stomachic Acid Scorvey.
• CHAP. XXVI. Of the External Cure of the Mouth-Scorvey.
• CHAP. XXVII. Of the External Cure of the Leg-Scorvey.
• CHAP. XXVIII. Of Cordials.
• CHAP. XXIX. The Cures of a Scorbutic Atrophy, of the Gout, and of Convulsions.
• CHAP. XXX. Of Malignant Fevors, and Small Pox.