An exact enquiry into, and cure of the acute diseases of infants by Walter Harris ; Englished by W.C. M.S., with a preface in vindication of the work.

THE CONTENTS.

• THat the things that make for a more certain Cure of Infants were, before, wanting amongst Physitians. page 2.
• But it is easier than is commonly believed. p. 3.
• That is proved by an Agurment taken from the difference of Ages and Constitutions. p. 4.
• There is but one cause of all Infants Diseases. p. 5.
• What that is. ibid.
• By what infallible Signs the Diagnostick of these Diseases is to be enquired into. p. 7.
• What was the seeming uncertainty of the Diag∣nostick. p. 8.
• The foregoing Cause of these Diseases. p. 10.
• How much the Health of the Infant dependeth upon the Mother. p. 11.
• Other Causes of Infants Diseases are recounted. 15.
• Cold, viz. very easily catch'd. ibid.
• The faulty Milk of the Nurse. p. 17.
• Their over soon eating Flesh. p. 20.
• The imprudent allowance of drinking Spirituous Liquors. p. 21.
• With whom Wine doth best agree, and whom it most injureth. p. 22.
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• All the Causes of Infants Diseases do always con¦centrate in one that is more immediate. 24
• All the Symptoms have their Rise from a pre∣vailing Acid. p. 30.
• That Hipp. did take his Indications of Cure from defeating the second, and not the first Qualities. p. 34.
• The Prognostick p. 37.
• The Cure. p. 39.
• What's the Foundation we should chiefly lay for the curing Infants Diseases. p. 41.
• The Designs of Cure are twofold. p. 42.
• The first is, to prepare the Acid aright. p. 47.
• That the Preparation of Humours of old, was of no use, and without any design. ibid.
• Why so many antient Physitians have neglected Purging in Fevers. p. 48.
• That the Concoction is better advanced by Purg∣ing than any other way. ibid.
• The Preparing Medicaments are enume∣rated. p. 51.
• Why the Volatile Spirits are not reckon'd a∣mongst such as do Prepare. p. 53.
• Why the foregoing Medicines are amongst the best Anodynes. p. 54.
• That the ignorance of their Vertues is the reason that That Vertue of these Medicaments was altogether unknown to Physitians. p. 55.
• By what the Knowledge of Physitians is to be measured. p. 56.
• Forms and Ʋses of preparing Medicaments. p. 57.
• Forms of gentle Purgatives are described. p. 62.
• The deserved Commendation of Rhubarb, above all other Purgatives. p. 64.
• In what esteem we should have Aloes. p. 65.
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• Some things out of Hipp. that oppose us, and are against Purging in Fevers. p. 68.
• An Answer. p. 69 and 70.
• The Fatal Mistake of some Physitians that over-thwartly prescribe Purging. p. 71.
• Concerning the Blooding of Children. p. 72.
• The Vertues of Testaceous Medicaments. p. 73.
• What are meant here by such. p. 75.
• The extravagant giving of Opiats, hath been introduced through the ignorance of their use. ib.
• That Narcoticks are neither necessary nor safe for Infants. p. 77.
• The danger of all Warm Medicaments and Cordi∣als in the cure of these tender Ones, is obser∣ved. p. 78.
• Whether the using Testaceous Medicaments doth produce Obstructions. p. 79.
• What my Opinion is about the Crissis. p. 80.
• What is to be determin'd concerning the use of Precipitating Medicaments. p. 82.
• How very gentle Fevers do frequently become such as are called Malignant. p. 84.
• The constant Practice amongst the Turks in curing the Plague. p. 86.
• The Notion of Malignity is refelled. p. 87.
• What Sudorificks, and in how much they, are of use. p. 88.
• An account of the Fever that was Epidemick last year. p. 89.
• Of the difficult breeding of Teeth of Infants, and its Cure. p. 91.
• The Cure of Thrushes. p. 94.
• How a Flux is to be cured. p. 96.
• And their Vomiting. p. 98.
• ...

• What are the Specificks for their Gripes. p. 99
• What are best in Convulsions. p. 100.
• The Specificks of the Ancients against Con∣vulsions, have not those Virtues they ascrib∣ed to them. p. 101.
• An Example of a Girl seized with most severe Convulsions, and recovered by things of no value. p. 102.
• Some things about the Small Pox and Measles of Infants. p. 105.
• An Argument taken from the Nature of the Small Pox, against the custom of too warm Trait∣ment. p. 106.
• Examples of sundry Infants cured of their Fe∣vers by this my Method. p. 109.
• A remarkable Instance of the Hurt of Aloeticks, in the Fevers of these Young Ones. p. 125
• The cure of a Boy almost destroyed by an abun∣dance of Worms. p. 129
• The description of a Black Mineral, and its com∣parison with the common Preparation. p. 130
• An Objestion against the fore-going Method. 133
• The Reply. ib.
• What my thoughts are concorning Chymistry. 134
• The excellency of the Works of Nature in relation with those of Art. p. 137
• The Conclusion. p. 138