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.
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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.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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London :: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh,
1684.
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Medicine.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66516.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
Pages
I
Jaundies, their cause, p. 89
Sometimes in the Bloud, p. 90
Their Cure, with the Forms of Remedies, and the manner and reason of their operations, p. 91
Silvius bis Empyrical Remedies, and others, in the cure of this Disease, p. 92, 93
Some of which are endued with an Animal volatile Salt, p. 93
Various forms of them, ib.
Other Medicins that are endued with a mi∣neral volatile Salt, ib.
Steel Medicins of several kinds used in this Disease, p. 94
Outward and sympatbetick Medicins, with the reason of some of them, ib.
Impetigo, its several names, p. 161
It is déscribed according to its appearances, its differences, p. 162
Its material cause not an humour of the skin; but tartarous concretions begot in the Bloud ib.
How it differs from the Scab and Leprosie, ib.
Its next cause, p. 163
Its evident causes, ib.
It often follows the Pox and Scurvey, ib.
Its Prognosticks, ib.
Cure, ib.
Why it is of more difficult cure than the Pox, p. 165
Succeeding a Sourvey, how to be cured, ib.
When following the Pox, how it is to be cu∣red, p. 166
Influence of the Air for exciting a Consumption p. 32
Inspiration hurt by the vitious qualities or de∣fect of the Air, p. 21
John English his Empyrical remedy for an Ascites, p. 105
Issues, rather a Preservatory than Curatory Re∣medy, p. 146
About them 3 things to be enquired into, ib.
Where they evacuate too much, p. 147
Why they often pour out the Humour too much, ib.
Why they expend the spirits too much, ib.
They are also inconvenient when they eva∣cuate less than they should do, ib.
Their places are designed according as the ends are of general evacuation, or evacua∣tion and revulsion, or both that derivation ib.
The place ought to be free from vessels and tendons, p. 148
Symptoms accidental to Issues, how to be cu∣red, p. 148, 149, 150
Issues will sometimes heal up, notwithstand∣ing all endeavours to the contrary, p. 150
The reason of Spungy flesh growing about their Lips, p. 151
Itch, it belongs to the sense of Feeling, p. 157
Of what sort its Affection is, ib.
What it is, p. 158
How the spirits are moved in it, ib.
Its Prognosticks, more dangerous to children, and ill juiced or cacbectick persons, ib.
In its cure both outward and inward Medi∣cins are to be taken together, p. 159
Why Sulphur is its Antidote, p. 161
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