The store-house of physical practice being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies : together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them, by method, medicine and diet : to which is added, for the benefit of young practicers, several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians / by John Pechey ...

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The store-house of physical practice being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies : together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them, by method, medicine and diet : to which is added, for the benefit of young practicers, several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians / by John Pechey ...

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Pechey, John, 1655-1716.

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London :: Printed for Henry Bonwicke ...,

1695.

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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation.

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"The store-house of physical practice being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies : together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them, by method, medicine and diet : to which is added, for the benefit of young practicers, several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians / by John Pechey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53921.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• coat of arms
• THE PREFACE.
• THE INDEX.
• THE STORE-HOUSE OF Physical Practice.
  • Diseases of the HEAD.
    • CHAP. I. Of a Phrensie.
    • CHAP. II. Of Madness.
    • CHAP. III. Of Giddiness.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the Falling Sickness.
    • CHAP. V. Of Childrens Convulsions.
    • CHAP. VI. Of the Night-Mare or Incubus.
    • CHAP. VI. Of Sleepy Diseases, Coma, Lethargy, Carus and Apoplexy.
    • CHAP. VIII. Catalepsis, or Catoche.
    • CHAP. IX. Of a Palsie.
      • The Prognostick Signs.
    • CHAP. X. Of a Convulsion.
    • CHAP. XI. Of Trembling.
    • CHAP. XII. Of a Catarrh.
    • CHAP. XIII. Of the Head-ach.
  • Diseases of the EYES.
    • CHAP. XIV. Of a Gutta Serena.
    • CHAP. XV. Of Diseases of the glassy Humour.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the Diseases of the Cristaline Humour.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of the Diseases of the Watery Humour, and especially of a Suffusion.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of the Dilatation of the Pupil.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of the Narrowness of the Pupil.
    • CHAP. XX. Of an Albugo, Spot, and other Colours of the Cornea changed.
    • CHAP. XXI. Of an Ophthalmia.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of Matter collected under the Cornea.
    • CHAP. XXIII. Of Bladders called Phlyctaenae.
    • CHAP. XXIV. Of the Ʋlcers of the Tunicks called Cornea and Adnata.
    • CHAP. XXV. Of the Cancer of the Cornea.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Of the Rupture of the Cornea.
    • CHAP. XXVII. Of the Falling out of the Uvea.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. Of a Fistula Lachrimalis.
    • CHAP. XXIX. Of Rhyas and Encanthis.
    • CHAP. XXX. Of an Epiphora.
    • CHAP. XXXI. Of the Disease of the Eye, called Unguis Oculorum.
  • Of Diseases of the EARS.
    • CHAP. XXXII. Of Deafness and Difficulty of Hearing.
    • CHAP. XXXIII. Of Noise in the Ears.
    • CHAP. XXXIV. Of Pain of the Ears.
    • CHAP. XXXV. Of things that come out Preternaturally from the Cavities of the Ears.
  • Of Diseases of the NOSE.
    • CHAP. XXXVI. Of Ʋlcers of the Nostrils, and of an Ozaena.
    • CHAP. XXXVII. Of a Sarcoma and Polypus.
    • CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the Loss of Smelling, and other Faults of it.
    • CHAP. XXXIX. Of an ill Scent in the Nostrils.
    • CHAP. XL. Of a Coryza.
    • CHAP. XLI. Of Sneezing.
    • CHAP. XLII. Of Bleeding at the Nose, or Spitting of Blood.
  • Of Diseases of the TONGUE.
    • CHAP. XLIII. Of an Inflammation of the Tongue, and other Tumours of it.
    • CHAP. XLIV. Of the Ranula under the Tongue.
    • CHAP. XLV. Of Tasting diminished, abolished or depraved.
    • CHAP. XLVI. Of a Palsie of the Tongue, and of the Motion of it Hurt.
  • Of Diseases of the Gums, Teeth, Jaws, Uvula, and Larynx.
    • CHAP. XLVII. Of Pains of the Teeth.
    • CHAP. XLVIII. Of Black and Rotten Teeth.
    • CHAP. XLIX. Of the Errosion and Ʋlceration of the Gums.
    • CHAP. L. Of Blood flowing from the Gums.
    • CHAP. LI. Of Ʋlcers of the Mouth and Jaws.
    • CHAP. LII. Of the Relaxation of the Uvula.
    • CHAP. LIII. Of a Quinsie.
    • CHAP. LIV. Of an Asthma.
    • CHAP. LV. Of a Pleurisie.
    • CHAP. LVI. Of a Peripneumonia.
    • CHAP. LVII. Of a Bastard Peripneumonia.
    • CHAP. LVIII. Of an Empyema.
    • CHAP. LIX. Of a Consumption.
      • The Milk-water.
      • Snail-water.
    • CHAP. LX. Of Swooning or Fainting.
    • CHAP. LXI. Of the Palpitation of the Heart, and of the Trembling of it.
    • CHAP. LXII. Of Weakness.
    • CHAP. LXIII. Of Appetite depraved, diminished, and abolished.
    • CHAP. LXIV. Of Nauseousness, Belching, and Vomiting.
    • CHAP. LXV. Of the Hickops
    • CHAP. LXVI. Of Vomiting of Blood.
    • CHAP. LXVII. Of the Cholera Morbus, i. e. Vomiting and Loosness.
    • CHAP. LXVIII. Of a Pain in the Stomach.
    • CHAP. LXIX. Of an Inflammation, Abscess, and Ʋlcer of the Stomach.
    • CHAP. LXX. Of the Chollick.
    • CHAP. LXXI. Of the Bilious Chollick of the Years 1670, 71, 72.
    • CHAP. LXXII. Of the Hysterick Chollick.
    • CHAP. LXXIII. Of the Iliack Passion.
    • CHAP. LXXIV. Of Costiveness.
    • CHAP. LXXV. Of a Lientery, and the Caeliack Passion.
    • CHAP. LXXVI. Of a Diarrhea.
    • CHAP. LXXVI. Of the Bloody Flux.
    • CHAP. LXXVIII. Of a Tenesmus.
    • CHAP. LXXIX. Of Worms.
    • CHAP. LXXX. Of an immoderate Flux of the Hemorrhoides, and of the Pain of them.
    • CHAP. LXXXI. Of the Jaundice.
    • CHAP. LXXXII. Of a Dropsie.
    • CHAP LXXXIII. Of a Timpany.
    • CHAP. LXXXIV. Of an Anasarca.
    • CHAP. LXXXV. Of the Scurvy.
      • Wines and mediated Beers.
    • CHAP. LXXXV. Of the Stone in the Kidneys, and of the Nephri∣tick Pain.
    • CHAP. LXXXVII. Of the Stone in the Bladder.
    • CHAP. LXXXVIII. Of an Inflammation of the Reins and Bladder.
    • CHAP. LXXXIX. Of Bloody Ʋrine.
    • CHAP. XC. Of an Ʋlcer of the Reins and Bladder.
    • CHAP. XCI. Of a Diabetes.
    • CHAP. XCII. Of Incontinence of Ʋrine.
    • CHAP. XCIII. Of a total Suppression of Urine, and of the Strangury.
    • CHAP. XCIV. Of a Dysury, or Heat of Ʋrine.
    • CHAP. XCV. Of a Chlorosis, or the Green-Sickness.
    • CAHP. XCVI. Of the Suppression of the Courses.
    • CHAP. XCV. Of an immoderate Flux of the Courses.
    • CHAP. XCVI. Of the Whites.
    • CHAP. XCVII. Of Hysterick and Hypochondriack Diseases.
    • CHAP. XCVIII. Of an Inflammation in the Womb.
    • CHAP XCIX. Of an Ʋlcer in the Womb.
    • CHAP. C. Of the Scirrhus of the Womb.
    • CHAP. CI. Of a Cancer of the Womb.
    • CHAP. CII. Of a Gangrene and Mortification of the Womb.
    • CHAP CIII. Of a Dropsie and Inflation of the Womb.
    • CHAP. CIV. Of a Falling of the Womb.
    • CHAP. CV. Of Barrenness.
    • CHAP. CVI. Of Miscarriage.
    • CHAP. CVII. Of hard Labour.
    • CHAP. CVIII. Of a Dead Child.
    • CHAP. CIX. Of the Secundine retained.
    • CHAP. CX. Of a Suppression of the Child-bed Purgations.
    • CHAP. CXI. Of After-Pains.
    • CHAP. CXII. Of the Acute Diseases of Women in Child-bed.
    • CHAP. CXIII. Of Childrens Diseases. Of ordering them; and of the Choice of a Nurse.
    • CHAP. CXIV. Of the Rickets.
      • The use of Vomits and Forms of them.
      • Forms of Catharticks.
      • Chyrurgical Remedies.
      • Of the Symptoms.
    • CHAP. CXV. Of the Gout.
    • CHAP. CXVI. Of a Rheumatism.
    • CHAP. CXVII. Of the Pestilential Fever, and of the Plague of the years 1665 and 1666.
    • CHAP CXVIII. Of the regular Small-Pox.
    • CHAP. CXIX. Of the Measles.
    • CHAP. CXX. Of a continual Fever.
    • CHAP. CXXI. Of the Scarlet Fever.
    • CHAP. CXXII. Of Childrens Fevers.
    • CHAP. CXXIII. Of Agues.
    • CHAP. CXXIV. Of the various Forms and Shapes of inter∣mitting Fevers.
    • CHAP. CXXV. Of Over-purging.
    • CHAP CXXVI. Of the French-Pox.
    • CHAP. CXXVII. Of the Itch, and Spots and Pimples in the Face.
• FORMS OF MEDICINES Frequently used by the London Physicians.
  • Medicines for a Consumption.
  • Apozems.
  • Cordials.
  • Catharticks.
  • Diaphoreticks.
  • Diureticks.
  • Eye-Waters.
  • Emulsions.
  • Gargarisms.
  • Glisters.
  • Liniments.
  • Pectorals.
  • Plasters.
  • Pultisses.
  • Stomach Medicines.
  • Suppositories.
  • Vomits.
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• BOOKS Printed for Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard.