The sixth book of Practical physick Of occult or hidden diseases; in nine parts Part I. Of diseases from occult qualities in general. Part. II. Of occult, malignant, and venemous diseases arising from the internal fault of the humors. Part III. Of occult diseases from water, air, and infections, and of infectious diseases. Part IV. Of the venereal pox. Part V. Of outward poysons in general Part VI. Of poysons from minerals and metals. Part. VII. Of poysons from plants. Part VIII. Of poysons that come from living creatures. Part IX. Of diseases by witchcraft, incantation, and charmes. By Daniel Sennertus, N Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole, Doctors of Physick
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The sixth book of Practical physick Of occult or hidden diseases; in nine parts Part I. Of diseases from occult qualities in general. Part. II. Of occult, malignant, and venemous diseases arising from the internal fault of the humors. Part III. Of occult diseases from water, air, and infections, and of infectious diseases. Part IV. Of the venereal pox. Part V. Of outward poysons in general Part VI. Of poysons from minerals and metals. Part. VII. Of poysons from plants. Part VIII. Of poysons that come from living creatures. Part IX. Of diseases by witchcraft, incantation, and charmes. By Daniel Sennertus, N Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole, Doctors of Physick
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Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.
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London :: printed by Peter Cole, printer and bookseller, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange,
1662.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Witchcraft -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Poisonous snakes -- Early works to 1800.
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"The sixth book of Practical physick Of occult or hidden diseases; in nine parts Part I. Of diseases from occult qualities in general. Part. II. Of occult, malignant, and venemous diseases arising from the internal fault of the humors. Part III. Of occult diseases from water, air, and infections, and of infectious diseases. Part IV. Of the venereal pox. Part V. Of outward poysons in general Part VI. Of poysons from minerals and metals. Part. VII. Of poysons from plants. Part VIII. Of poysons that come from living creatures. Part IX. Of diseases by witchcraft, incantation, and charmes. By Daniel Sennertus, N Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole, Doctors of Physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59200.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.
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The Symptoms and Signs.
You may know it from the Patients relation, or by a part stung or bitten, that swels presently, is inflamed, and hath great pain, with other symptoms that poyson.
* 1.1I•• a bite or sting hurt the Artery, the wound is worse, because the poyson gets sooner to the he••rt, and there is a deadly Syncope: A••so
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if a nerve be hurt the brain consents and there is the like danger; if a vein be only hurt there is less danger, for it threatneth only the corrupti∣on of humors.
We spake of the cure:* 1.2 but now I shal shew the proper Antidote against every venemous creature.