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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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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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"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 May 19, 2025.

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THE TABLE To the TRACT of The SCURVER.

A

  • AIr unbealtbful, how it breeds the Scurvy, p. 153
  • Ale Anti-scorbutick p. 198
  • In a more bot constitution, p. 201
  • Ancients rarely mentioned the Scurvy, p. 169
  • Antiscorbuticks, p. 194
  • Apozems against the Scurvey, p. 193
  • Asthmatical Paroxisms in the Scurvey how cured, p. 202
  • Atrophy Scorbutick, or Consumption, p. 188
  • How cured, p. 208

B

  • Belly, Pains in the Belly a symptom of the Scurvy p. 183
  • The cause of them, p. 185
  • How such pains are to be cured, p. 203
  • Bloud, The discrafie of Bloud and Wine compa∣red, p. 171
  • How the Scurvy is derived to the Bloud, p. 177
  • What kind of Affections arise by reason of the Scorbutick discrasie of the Bloud, p. 178
  • Bones, of the crackling or noise of the Bones in the Scurvy, p. 110
  • Brain, How the Scorbutick Taint is derived to the Brain, p. 177
  • How impressed thereon, p. 179
  • Brest, straitness thereof in the Scurvy how caused p. 180
  • Poins in the Brest a Symptom of the Scurvy, p. 186
  • Breathing difficult in the Scurvy, p. 179
  • How it is caused, ib.

C

  • Cardiack Medicins against the Scurvy, p. 211
  • Causes evident of the Scurvy, p. 170
  • More remote causes of it, p. 173
  • Chalybiat Medicins against the Scurvy, p. 195
  • Colick scorbutick how cured, p. 203
  • Confections against the Scurvy, p. 195
  • In a more bot Constitution, p. 200
  • Convulsive distempers of the Scurvy, how cured p. 207
  • Contagion, The Scurvy taken by Contagion, how it is done, p. 176
  • Cure of the Scurvy, p. 191

D

  • Decoctions against the Scurvy, p. 196
  • In a more bot Constitution, p. 200
  • Diet, The order of Diet to be observed in the Scurvy, 211
  • Digestives in the Scurvy, p. 194
  • Diseases, how they differ coming of themselves, and brought on by the Scurvy, p. 189
  • Drink what to be used in the Scurvy, p. 212
  • Dropsie, how cured coming upon the Scurvy, p. 209
  • Dyscrasie of Wine and Bloud compared, p. 174
  • Dysentery a sign of the Scurvy, p. 183
  • How cured, p. 204

E

  • Electuaries against the Scurvy, p. 193, 195
  • In a more hot constitution, p. 199
  • Expressions good against the Scurvy, p. 197, 201
  • Extracts against a more cold Scurvy, p. 193

Page 159

F

  • Fearfulness a sign of the Scurvy, p. 184
  • Fevers long breed the Scurvy, and why, p. 175
  • Wandring Fevers symptoms of the Scurvy, 181
  • How to be cured, p. 208
  • Flux of the Belly a sign of the Scurvy, p. 183
  • How cured, p. 204
  • Flux of Bloud in the Scurvy how cured, ib.

G

  • Gout, of the wandring scorbutick Gout, p. 188
  • How cured, p. 207

H

  • Haemorrhages a sign of the Scurvy, p. 183
  • How cured, p. 204
  • Headachs from the Scurvy p. 170, 186
  • Heart, passions of the Heart in the Scurvy, p. 181
  • Histories of the Scurvy, with observations there∣upon, p. 213, 214, 215, 216, 217

I

  • Indications for the cure of the Scurvy three∣fold, p. 191
  • Preservatory, ib.
  • The curatory Indication both against the Dis∣ease and its Symptoms, p. 202
  • The vital Indication, p. 211
  • Infusions good against the Scurvy, p. 197, 201
  • Intentions therapeutick, p. 191
  • Juices good against the Scurvy, p. 197, 201

L

  • Lask in the Scurvy how cured, p. 204
  • Legs, Pains in the Legs how cured, p. 206
  • Limbs, Pains in the Limbs coming of the Scurvy how cured, ib.
  • Liquid Medicins against the Scurvy, p. 196
  • Loins, pains in the Loins a symptom of the Scur∣vy. p. 186
  • Lozenges against the Scurvy. p. 196

M

  • Marasmus caused by the Scurvy, p. 188
  • How to be cured, p. 208
  • Meats what sort to be used in the Scurvy, p. 212
  • Melancholy a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 184
  • Mouth, Ulcerous affections of the Mouth a sym∣ptome of the Scurvy, p. 182
  • How to cure the vices of the Mouth coming of the Scurvy. p. 205

N

  • Nervous Juice, how the Scorbutick Taint is pressed on the Nervous Juice, p. 172, 179

O

  • Opiates against the Scurvy, p. 212
  • Opinions of the Original of the Scurvy, p. 173
  • Orange Tablets sold in Oxford against the
  • Scurvy how made, p. 196

P

  • Pains of the Scurvy their several species, p. 185
  • The cause of Pains in the Belly, ib.
  • Pains in several parts of the Abdemen, p. 186
  • In the Loins, Brest, and Head, ib.
  • In the Thighs, ib.
  • Pains in the Belly how cured, p. 203
  • Pains in the Limbs and Legs coming of the Scurvy, how to be cured, p. 206
  • Palsie Scorbutick, p. 184
  • From three sorts of causes, ib.
  • How cured, p. 207
  • Phlebotomy how used in the Scurvy, p. 193
  • Pills against the Scurvy, p. 192, 196, 200
  • Pleura, pains in the Pleura a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 186
  • Powders against the Scurvy, p. 193, 196, 200
  • Prognosticks of the Scurvy, p. 190
  • That they ought not to be without considera∣tion, ib.
  • Pulse inordinate in the Scurvy, p. 181
  • Purging, Of Purging in the Scurvy, p. 192
  • In a more cold Constitution, p. 193

R

  • Remedies for both cold and hot Scurvy, several Forms, from 192. to 196
  • For the symptoms, from 202, to 211
  • Respiration difficult in the Scurvey how cured, p. 202
  • Rhumatism comes often upon an inveterate Scur∣vy, p. 189
  • How to cure it, p. 209

S

  • Sadness a cause of the Scurvy, p. 177
  • Scurvy rarely mentioned by the Ancients, p. 169
  • The chief symptoms of the disease recited, ib.
  • The evident causes of the Scurvy, p. 170
  • How the scorbutick Contagion is impressed on the Nervous Juice, p. 172
  • Opinions concerning the original of the Scur∣vy recited, p. 173
  • The Scurvy arises not always by the fault of the Spleen or first passages, p. 174
  • How unhealthful Air breeds the Scurvy, p. 175
  • Why it follows upon long Fevers, ib.

Page 160

  • conjuct dyscrasies of the Bloud and ner∣vcus Juice. p. 188
  • Symptoms of the Scurvy arising by reason of the Taint impressed on the Brain and nervous stock, from 184, to 188
  • How Diseases differ coming of themselves, from the same coming upon the Scurvy, p. 189
  • Prognosticks in the Scurvy, p. 190
  • The Cure of the Scurvy, p. 191
  • The therapeutick Intentions, ib.
  • Of Purging by Vomit and by Stool in the Scurvy, p. 192
  • Forms of Medicins to cure the Scurvy, from 192, to 199
  • Forms of Medicins for the cure of the Scurvy in a more hot constitution, from 199, to 202
  • The curatory Indication of the Scurvy against both the Disease and the Symptoms, p. 202
  • How to cure its Asthmatical fits, ib.
  • How to cure the Vertigo and fluxes of Bloud, p. 204
  • How to cure its Lask Colick and distempers of the Ventricle, p. 203, 204
  • How to cure the Vices of the Mouth coming of the Scurvy, p. 205
  • How to cure the Scorbutick pains in the Legs and Limbs, p. 206
  • How to cure the wandring scorbutick Gout, p. 207
  • How to cure its convulsive and paralytick Distempers, ib.
  • How to cure the Atrophy, or wasting of the Flesh, that attends this Disease, p. 208
  • How to c•…•…e the Rhumatism and Dropsie, p. 209
  • Of the crackling of the Bones in the Scurvy p. 210
  • Of the Vital Indication, p. 211, 212
  • Some Histories of scorbutical Persons, from 213, to 217
  • Sleepiness a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 187
  • Specificks or Antiscorbuticks, p. 194
  • Spaws or Waters drinking in a Rhumatism or Gout of the Scurvy, has increased its evil disposition, p. 217
  • Spitting much a Symptom of the Scurvy, p. 182
  • Spirits fainting in the Scurvy, how cured, p. 204
  • Spleen not always the cause of the Scurvy, p, 174
  • Spots and Whelks various symptoms of the Scurvy, p. 182
  • Study immoderate, a cause of the Scurvy, p. 177
  • Succession contracts the Scurvy, and how it is done, p. 176
  • Sweats nightly, symptoms of the Scurvy, p. 181
  • Symptoms of the Scurvy recited, p. 178, 179
  • Cause of the symptoms unfolded, p. 179
  • Of the symptoms of the Scurvy by reason of the Taint impressed on the Bloud, from p. 178, to 183
  • Of the Symptomes of the Scurvy by reason of the Taint being impressed on the Brain and nervous stock, from 184, to 188
  • Symptoms of the Scurvy which arise from the conjunct dyscrasies of the Bloud and Ner∣vous Juice, p. 188, 189
  • Syrups against the Scurvy, p. 192, 197, 201

T

  • Tablets or Lozenges against the Scurvy, p. 196, 200
  • Thighs, pains in the Thighs a sign of the Scur∣vy, p. 186
  • Tinctures against the Scurvy, p. 193

V

  • Ventricle, distempers in the Scurvy how cured, p. 203
  • Vertigo, a sign of the Scurvy, p. 186
  • How cured, p. 204
  • Viscera, how in fault breeding the Scurvy, p. 176
  • Vomiting a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 183
  • Urine red and lixivial a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 181

W

  • Waking much a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 187
  • Waters distilled good for the Scurvy, p. 198, 201
  • Weariness spontaneous, a symptom of the Scurvy, p. 170, 179
  • Whelks breaking out, signs of the Scurvy, p. 182
  • Wine and Bloud compared, p. 171
  • What is meant by fretted and ropy Wines, ib.
  • Antiscorbutick Wine, p. 198, 201
FINIS.
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