A new method of physick: or, A short view of Paracelsus and Galen's practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius, phylosopher, and physitian in Germany. Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie, dwelling on the east-side of Spittle-fields, neer London.

LIB. VI.

Of General Nosologie.

1 GEneral Nosologie is that Art which sheweth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Diseases.

2 A Disease is an Affect against Nature, wher∣by the Actions of the Body are viciated.

3 A Disease is Essential, or Accidental.

4 An Essential Disease is Particular or Com∣mon.

Particular, are either Similary, Organical, or Dissimilary.

5 Similar, is

• 1 A Distemper either Simple, as Hot, Cold, Moist, or Dry: or Compound, as Cold and Moist, Cold and Dry, Hot and Moist, Hot and Dry.
• 2 Immoderation of the Matter, as when the Part is either too hard, or too soft, too loose, or too much bound, too thick, or too thin.
• 3 A Corruption of the whol Substance,

• which is either Infectious, or Venemous.

6 An Organical 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is, either of the Con∣formation, Number, and Bigness, or Place.

7 A Disease of Conformation is either in the Form, or passages of the Body.

8 A Disease of Bigness, is when the Members of the Body are either bigger or less than they should be.

9 A Disease of the Number, is when the Mem∣bers are either more or less than they should be.

10 A Disease of the place is, when Members are not in their right places, as in Ruptures and Dislocations.

Accidental Diseases.

1 Accidental Diseases are either in respect of Number, or Composition: and both of them are either Singular or Manifold.

2 Singular, is either Simple or Compound.

Simple is either by it self, or with company.

3 Manifold, is either Implicite, Joyned, or Disjoyned.

4 Joyned is, when the Effect of one is the Cause of another.

5 Disjoyned are such as lie in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 parts.

6 Implicite Diseases are, when divers parts conspire together to afflict one Function, as a Pleuresie and an Asthma both afflict the Lungues,

and by the Lungues the Breathing.

7 The Substance of some Diseases is like a Te∣nant at will, quickly removed, the Cause being taken away, as Feavers: Others by tract of time are become Habitual to the Body, as Hectick Feavers.

Diseases according to the Place.

1 According to the Place, they are taken either from the Subject, or adjunct.

Those which are taken from the Subject are ta∣ken either from the Parts, or from the Constituti∣on of Man.

Those which are taken from the Adjunct, are taken in respect of the Region and Air.

2 The Diseases of the Body are either Univer∣sal or Particular.

Universal, as Feavers; or Particular to some parts of the Body, as pain in some particular Member, &c.

3 A Disease, by reason of the Constitution of a Man is taken,

• 1 From the Nature of the Man, and so is more familiar to one Complexion than a∣nother.
• 2 From the Age, and so is most familiar to Child-hood, Youth, Manhood, old age.
• 3 From Sex, and so is most familiar to Men or Women.

4 In respect of the Region,

• 1 Some are scattered up and down here and there, and are called Sporadical.
• 2 Others are Common, and are called Pan∣demical.
• 3 Some are proper to one place, as Agues to Fenny Countreys, and are called Ende∣mical.
• 4 Others rage at some particular times, and are called Epidemical.

Diseases according to Time.

1 They are taken in respect of the Time of the Disease, or the Time of the Yeer.

2 The time of the Disease is taken according to the parts of the Disease, or the Disease it self.

3 The parts of a Disease are, the Beginning, Encrease, Station, and Declination.

4 The Disease it self is to be taken in respect of its Continuing.

5 The Continuing of a Disease is either short, Long, or Chronical.

Short is either with danger or without danger: and in both, it is either very Acute, or Acute; and in these, either Symply, or by Degeneration.

6. In respect of the Continuance of it; it is ei∣ther Continual or Intermitting.

7 In both these consider, their Beginning, En∣crease,

Station, and Declination.

8 In respect of time, some Diseases are most frequent in the Spring; some in Autumn, some in Summer, some in Winter.

Diseases according to Custom.

1 They are taken according to the Nature, or according to the Event of the Disease.

According to the Nature, it is either Gentle or Malignant.

2 According to Event, it is either Healthful or deadly, curable, incurable, or threatning relapse.

Diseases according to Magnitude.

1 A Disease is either great or smal.

2 A Disease is great, either by it self, or by ac∣cident.

By it sesf three waies:

• 1 In respect of its kind, proper Essence, or Cause.
• 2 In-respect of its active Power.
• 3 In respect of its ill Conditions, or ill Symptomes

A Disease is great by Accident,

• 1 In respect of the part afflicted, if that be Noble; as a Disease in the Head is grea∣ter than one of the Toe.
• ...

• 2 In respect of the Faculty of the Body that is hurt by the Disease; and so deprivation of Sences is greater than the Tooth-ach.

Diseases according to Cause.

1 They are caused either Essentially, or accor∣ding to Consent.

2 Some are inbred, or Hereditary: others not Hereditary, but advantitious.

3 Advantitious are of Blood, Choller, Flegm, Melancholly: and each of these are either Inter∣nal, or External.

4 Thus much of Nosologia in the General: the Special follows.

5 Special Nosologie is, that which Numbers up al the special Diseases which afflict Nature.

6 These arise either from Natural Causes, or External.

7 From Natural Causes, are either Universal, which occupy the whol Body as Feavers: Or such as occupy only particular parts of the Body: Of both which in order.