Pharmacologia anti-empirica, or, A rational discourse of remedies both chymical and Galenical wherein chymistry is impartially represented, the goodness of natural remedies vincidated, and the most celebrated preparation of art proved uncapable of curing diseases without a judicious and methodical administration : together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the Cortex, or Jesuits powder, and the most notorious impostures of divers empiricks and mountebanks / by Walter Harris ...
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Pharmacologia anti-empirica, or, A rational discourse of remedies both chymical and Galenical wherein chymistry is impartially represented, the goodness of natural remedies vincidated, and the most celebrated preparation of art proved uncapable of curing diseases without a judicious and methodical administration : together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the Cortex, or Jesuits powder, and the most notorious impostures of divers empiricks and mountebanks / by Walter Harris ...
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Harris, Walter, 1647-1732.
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London :: Printed for Richard Chiswell ...,
1683.
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Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.
Gout -- Early works to 1800.
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"Pharmacologia anti-empirica, or, A rational discourse of remedies both chymical and Galenical wherein chymistry is impartially represented, the goodness of natural remedies vincidated, and the most celebrated preparation of art proved uncapable of curing diseases without a judicious and methodical administration : together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the Cortex, or Jesuits powder, and the most notorious impostures of divers empiricks and mountebanks / by Walter Harris ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45666.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.
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A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS.
CHAP. I. THE Introduction. P. 1.
CHAP. II. Of the Inventors of Chymistry. p. 8.
CHAP. III. Of Paracelsus and Helmont on the one side; and of Sir Theodore Mayern, and Quer∣cetan, on the other. p. 15.
CHAP. IV. Of Chymistry and Physick, and of Philoso∣phy in relation to Physick. p. 30.
CHAP. V. Of the use of Gold in Physick, and particularly the Aurum Potabile, &c. p. 38.
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CHAP. VI. Of the Transmutation of Metals, and especi∣ally of the Philosophers Stone. p. 49.
CHAP. VII. Of Distillation, &c. p. 62.
CHAP. VIII. Of six Great Remedies, too much magnified by some Physicians, as well as Empiricks: And first of Mercury. p. 88.
CHAP. IX. Of Antimony. p. 111.
CHAP. X. Of Vitriol. p. 126.
CHAP. XI. Of Chalybeats. p. 145.
CHAP. XII. Of the Cortex, or Jesuits Powder, p. 164.
CHAP. XIII. Of Opium. p. 192.
CHAP. XIV. Of the Causes and Cure of the Gout. p. 214.
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CHAP. XV. Of Simple and Compound Remedies. p. 281.
CHAP. XVI. Of Characters, Charms, Amulets, and Sigills, how they come to Cure Diseases. p. 298.
CHAP. XVII. Of Mountebanks, and other sorts of Em∣piricks. p. 315.
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