A treatise of the small-pox and measles describing their nature, causes, and signs, diagnostick and prognostick, in a different way to what hath hitherto been known : together, with the method of curing the said distempers, and all, or most, of the best remedies : also, a particular discourse of opium, diacodium, and other sleeping medicines : with a reference to a very great case / by Gideon Harvey ...
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- A treatise of the small-pox and measles describing their nature, causes, and signs, diagnostick and prognostick, in a different way to what hath hitherto been known : together, with the method of curing the said distempers, and all, or most, of the best remedies : also, a particular discourse of opium, diacodium, and other sleeping medicines : with a reference to a very great case / by Gideon Harvey ...
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- Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?
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- London :: Printed for W. Freeman ...,
- 1696.
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- Subject terms
- Smallpox -- Early works to 1800.
- Measles -- Early works to 1800.
- Opium -- Physiological effect.
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"A treatise of the small-pox and measles describing their nature, causes, and signs, diagnostick and prognostick, in a different way to what hath hitherto been known : together, with the method of curing the said distempers, and all, or most, of the best remedies : also, a particular discourse of opium, diacodium, and other sleeping medicines : with a reference to a very great case / by Gideon Harvey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43025.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- THE Preface.
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A TREATISE OF THE
Small-Pox AND MEASLES.- CHAP. I. Comprising some Objections made by Nurses and Motherly Women, against Physicians, in the Small-pox, and Measles.
- CHAP. II. Reports the general Opinion of the Original of the Small-Pox and Measles.
- CHAP. III. Containing Arguments, proving, That the Measles and Small-Pox are not caused by any impurity in the uterin Blood.
- CHAP. IV. That the Measles and Small-Pox are not the first and most ancient of Diseases, neither are they inevi∣table and hereditary.
- CHAP. V. Proving the Original of the Small-pox and Measles to be in the Air; and the explaining the manner of falling into those Diseases.
- CHAP. VI. Of Contagion, and contagious Diseases, of which the Small-Pox is a species.
- CHAP. VII. Containing several inferences concern∣ing the Plague.
- CHAP. VIII. Of the analogy and resemblance be∣tween the Small-Pox and Plague.
- CHAP. IX. Of Venoms or Poisons, and their Differences.
- CHAP. X. Explains the Nature of Poisons.
- CHAP. XI. Expresses the manner of operation of venenous particles in the Air, whereby, and how they cause the Small-pox or Plague.
- CHAP. XII. Of the Signs in general of the Small-Pox.
- CHAP. XIII. Of the Diagnostick signs of a variolous ebullition of the Blood.
- CHAP. XIV. The signs of a variolous Putrid Fever.
- CHAP. XV. Of the Prognosticks.
- CHAP. XVI. Of the Practick, relating to the Small-pox
- CHAP. XVII. Of Letting Blood in the Small-pox, and Measles.
- CHAP. XVIII. Of Purging in the Small-Pox.
- CHAP. XIX. Of Vrgent Symptoms in the Small-pox; and particularly of Haemorrhages.
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CHAP. XX. Of want of rest and sleep in the Small-pox; and of Hypnoticks, chiefly of
Opium, andDiacodium. - CHAP. XXI. Of the chief indication in the Small-pox, and of the Remedies and Me∣dicines answering to the said indi∣cation.