Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675., Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691?

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THE TABLE To the Treatise of CONVULSIVE DISEASES.

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Chalybiats, See Steel Medicines.
Children, Of Convulsions in Children, 22
Children very liable to Convulsions, 23
The causes of them, ib.
Why they follow upon their breeding of teeth, 25
How to cure Convulsions of children, 26
How to preserve children from them, ib.
How to cure the Convulsion in Children coming of breeding of teeth, 27
Of other sorts of Convulsions in Children, ib.
How to cure them, ib.
Children are subject to a Convulsive cough, 92
The reason of it, ib.
Convulsions, Of Convulsive motions in general, 1
What they are, ib.
The conjunct cause of Convulsions, 3
Repletion and emptiness not the cause of Convul∣sions, ib.
The kinds of Convulsions, 4
The more remote cause of Convulsions, 5
How the morbific matter of Convulsions is disposed in the head, 6
Twofold Convulsions, continual, or by fits, 7
The evident cause of Convulsions, 8
Of direct and reflected Convulsions, ib.
Of the places affected by Convulsions, ib.
The difference of Convulsions in respect of their origine, 9
The cause of them, ib.
Of the extent of Convulsions, 10
Of the duration of a Convulsive fit, ib.
Of an intermitting Convulsion, ib.
Of Convulsions in children, 22
The causes of them, 23
Why they come upon the breeding of teeth, 27
How to cure Convulsions in children, 26
Of other sorts of Convulsions in children, 27
Of Convulsive Diseases in those of ripe age, 28
Three kinds of such Convulsions, ib.
Histories of such Convulsions, 30, 31, &c.
How the Convulsive matter flows into the Nerves, 29
Why Convulsions proceed from the extremities of the Nerves, 34
Why the blood is soon congealed in Convulsive distempers, 35
How to cure Convulsions in Men and Women, ib.
Of Convulsions from the extremities of the Nerves, and the nervous infoldings, 37
Reasons of such Convulsions so coming, 38
Histories of such Convulsions, 26, 39, &c.
Of Convulsions arising from the nervous liquor, 41
Three kinds of causes of universal Convulsions, ib.
Of Convulsions arising from poysons and sorcery, 42
Of Convulsions caused by the biting of a mad dog, ib.
Of Convulsions from the Tarentula, ib.
Of Convulsions coming by Witchcraft, 43
The reason of them, 44
What Convulsions argue Witchcraft, ib.
Of universal Convulsions from Feavers, ib.
And the reason of the symptoms, ib.
A description of an epidemical Convulsive disease in Hassia, 45
The reason of it, ib.
Of universal Convulsions from the Scurvy, 55
The kinds of such Convulsions, ib.
The nature of the broken Convulsion, ib.
An History of it, 56
The reason of the symptoms, and cause of the disease, 57
Why it grew worse by Baths, 58
The nature and manner of continued Convulsive distempers, 59
Histories of such, 60
The cure of them, 61, 64
Of Convulsions from the Hypochondriacal distem∣per, 81
Convulsive Diseases, see Epilepsie.
Of Convulsive diseases of those of ripe age, 28
Of an epidemical Convulsive disease in Hassia, and the reason of it, 45
The nature of a continual Convulsive disease, 59
The cure of such Convulsive diseases, 60
Of a Convulsive Cough, see Cough.
Convulsive Matter, how it flows into the Nerves, 29
Convulsive Astmah, see Astmah.
Copula, Praeternatural, a cause of Convulsions, 4
The explosive spasmodic Copula, not from the blood, but from the brain, ib.
Cough, Convulsive, 92
An example of it, ib.
Its cure, 95
Cramp, Or Tetanon, what, 1

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