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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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 June 8, 2025.
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THE TABLE To the Treatises of FERMENTATION and FEAVERS.
A.
AGues, Page 56
The reason of the Ague fits, 57, 58
The signs of the Disease, 59
Of the Cure of the Ague, 61
Of the double Tertian or Quartan, 63
Of a Tertian Ague or Feaver, ibid.
Some symptoms of the Disease, 65
Its Cure, 66
Histories of the Disease, 67
Of Quotidian Agues, 68
Their Cure, ib.
Of a Quartan Ague, 69
Causes of it, ib.
Why it usually begins in Autumn, 70
Its Cure, 71
Aurum fulminans, What it is, 34, 35
B.
Beer, How made by Fermentation, 17
Blood, The Blood Anatomiz'd, 47, 48
Compared with Wines, 50, 51
The motions and heats of the Blood, 53
The difference of the Fermentation of Wine and the Blood, ib.
The difference of the Blood growing hot in Fea∣vers, 74, 75
Of the inkindling of the Blood in a burning •…•…ea∣ver, 91
How the Blood is infected by Poysons, 102
and its several mutations thereby, ib.
Of the great heat of the Blood in malignant Fea∣vers, 111
Of Blood-letting in the Small-pox, 124
Blood Menstruous, see Menstruous Blood.
Bread, How made by Fermentation, 17
Buboes in the Plague, 107
C.
Carbuncles, Of Carbuncles in the Plague, 107
Catarrhal, Epidemical Feavers, see Feavers.
Causon, Or burning Feavers, 91
Cautions, Concerning Putrid Feavers, 92, 93
Concerning the Plague, 108
Chrystilisation, Of Salts, how made, 42
Chyle, The Concoction of the Chyle in the Ventricle is made by Fermentation, 12
Coagulation, What it is, 41
Congelation, What it is, ib.
A second manner of Congelation, 43
Of artificial Congelation, 44
Crisis, Of a continual Feaver, 56
Of a putrid Feaver, 81
Cure, Of Agues, 61, 66, 68, 71
Of putrid Feavers of every kind, 92
Of the Plague, 108
Of Pestilential Feavers, 113
The Cure of the Small-pox, 122
Of the Milkey Feaver, 128
Of the putrid Feaver of Women in Child-bed, 129
Of the Symptomatic Feaver of Women in Child∣bed, 133
Of Epidemical Feavers, 143, 144, 146, 150
Cyder, How made by Fermentation, 21
D.
Death, And Putrefaction of Bodies, 22
Diarrhea, Of a Diarrhea in Feavers, 87
Dysenterie, Of a Dysenterie in Feavers, ib.
Of a Dysenterie in Child-bed Women, 134
E.
Earth, Of the Chymists, what it is, 5
Ephemera, Or a Feaver of a days continuance, 75
Epidemical, Feavers, see Feavers.
Essential, Putrid Synochus, what it is, 91
F.
Feavers, Of Feavers in general, 47
Of Intermitting Feavers or Agues, see Agues, 56
Of continual Feavers, 74
What causes continual Feavers, ib.
The several kinds of continual Feavers, 75
Of the Feaver for a day, 76
The cause of it, and of its Crisis, ib.
An History of such a Feaver, 77
Of a putrid Feaver, ib.
Four seasons to be observed in it, 78
The causes of it, ib.
A Prognostication of the Disease, 81
Of the Crisis of a putrid Feaver, ib.
The symptoms and signs of putrid Feavers, 83
Of the putrid Synochus or continual Feaver, 90
Of the symptomatic putrid Feaver, ib.
Of the flow Feaver, 91
Of the symptomatical Feaver, from an Ulcer, or a Consumption of the Lungs, ib.
Of an Essential putrid Synochus, ib.
Of the Causon or burning Feaver, ib.
The Cures of putrid Feavers of ever y kind, 92
Histories of several putrid Feavers, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
Of a Pestilential or Malignant Feaver in general, 100
Of a malignant Feaver in specie, 111
How it differs from the Pestilence, ib.
A description of malignant Feavers, ib.
A difference of them, 113
Causes of them, ib.
The Cure of them, ib.
Of Feavers Epidemical of another sort, 114
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...An History of a Pestilential Feaver, ib.
An History of a Malignant Feaver, 116
Of the Feavers of Child-bearing Women, 125
Of the Milkey Feaver, 128
The causes of it, ib.
Its Cure, 129
Of a p•…•…trid Feaver in Women lying In, ib.
A 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Disease, 230
The causes of it, ib.
Its Cure, 131
Of Symptomatic Feavers of Women in Child-bed, 133
The general reason of them, ib.
The Cure of them, 134
Histories of acute Feavers in Women lying In, 135, &c.
Epidemical Feavers, 137
A description of an Epidemical Feaver in the year 1657. ib.
The canses of it, 138
The difference of it from other Feavers, 139
A Prognostication of it, 140
Of the cure of it, 143
A description of a Catarrhal Epidemical Feaver in the year 1658. 144
The causes of it, 145
The symptoms, and cure of it, 145, 146
A description of an Epidemical Feaver arising in the Autumn of the year 1658. 146
The nature and formal reason of it, 148
A Prognostication of it, 150
The Cure of it, 150, &c.
Fermentation, What it is, Page 1
What in Minerals, 9
What it is in Vegetables, 10
Of Fermentation in Animals, 11
Instances to illustrate the doctrine of Fermentation, 12
Of the Ferment in the Ventricle, ib.
Of Fermentation in Artificial things, 14
What Bodies are fit for Fermentation, 25
What promotes Fermentation, ib.
The end and effect of Fermentation, 18, 19, ib. 16
Of Fermentation that tends to perfection, 16
Of Fermentation that tends to the dissolution of Bodies, 22, 26
Of Fermentation in the precipitation of Bodies, 38
Of Fermentation in Coagulation & Congelation, 14
Of Fermentation of the blood in Feavers, 47
Fire, What it is, and its nature, 30
Flux, Of the Flux in Feavers, 87
G.
Glass, see Vitrification.
Gun-powder, The nature of it, and how made, 34
H.
Habit, Of the body in putrid Feavers, 84
Head, Pained in Feavers, 86
Heart, Pained in Feavers, 87
Life proceeds first from the heart, 11
Heat, What it is, 32
Histories, Of Agues, 67, 68
Of an Ephemera or Feaver for a day, 77
Of putrid Feavers, 94, 95, 96, &c.
Of the Plague, 111
Of a Pestilent Feaver, 114
Of another Epidemical Pestilent Feaver, 116, 117
Of the Small-pox, 123, 124
Of acute Feavers of women lying In, 135, 136, &c.
Of several Epidemical Feavers, from 137 to 147
Hysterical, Fits, why Women more subject to them than Men, 129
I.
Indications, Concerning putrid Feavers, 92
Inflammation, Of the Lungs, an effect of the putrid Synochus, 90
Inflammatiens in the Plague, 107
Intentions, For the Cure of a Tertian Ague, 66
For curing the Ephemera, 76
Intentions for the cure of every sort of putrid Fea∣vers, 92
For the curing Epidemical Feavers, 150, 151, &c.
Judgment, Or Prognosticks of the event of a putrid Feaver, 81
L.
Life, First proceeds from the fermenting of the spirit in the heart, 11
Light, What it is, and how made, 33
Lochia, What they are, and their use, 126
M.
Measles, Of the Measles, 123
What they are, ib.
Malignant, Feavers, see Feavers.
Mault, How made by fermentation, 17
Menstrua, The two chief for the dissolution of bodies, fire and water, 26
Menstrua's of several sorts, 27, 28
Menstrua's for Gold and Silver, 29
Menstruous Blood, its use, and why it flows not in Women with Child, 125
Meteors, What they be, 9
Milk In the Breasts, how made, 125
Minerals, How they ferment, ib.
Moldiness, Whence it is made, 24
Mustiness, Whence it comes, ib.
N.
Nitre, What it is, 34
O.
Opinions, Of Philosophers, concerning the prin∣ciples of things, 2
P.
Peruvean Bark, used to cure Agues, 71
Pest, See Plague.
Pestilential Feaver, see Feavers.
Plants, How they germinate, 10
Pleurisie, An effect of the putrid Synochus, 90
Plague, Its nature, 103
Whence its rise, ib.
Of its propagation by Contagion, 105
Its description, 106
Of its signs and symptoms, ib.
Its Prognosticks, 108
Its Cure, ib.
History of it, 111.
Pox, see Small-pox.
Powder, Of the Jesuits, a Peruvean Bark, and its nature, 71
How it operates, 72
Poysons. How they distemper the body, 101
How they work on the animal spirits and nervous liquor, ib.
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...Their various properties, ib.
Precipitation, What it is, and how made, 38
Principles, Of natural things, 1
What he means by Principles, 2
The Principles of the Chymists, 3
Prognostications, In the Plague, 108
In the Small-pox, 121
Prognostications of Epidemical Diseases, 140, 150
Prognostications from the Pulse, 88
From Urins, ib.
Pulse, To be considered in a Putrid Feaver, 88
Prognostications from it, ib.
Purple Spots in the Plague, 108
Putrefaction, How made, 22
Putrid Feaver, its description, 77
S.
Salc, A Principle of the Chymists, what it is, 4
Salt in the Blood, 49
Salt-nitre, What it is, 34
Salts, How Chrystallised, and the reason of the ope∣ration, 42
Signs, Or symptoms of Life and Death in a putrid Feaver, 83
Signs and symptoms of the Plague, 106
Signs of a Pestilential or Malignant Feaver, 113
Signs of the Small-pox, 120
Small-pox, The causes of them, 118, 119
Signs and symptoms of the Small-pox, 120
Prognostications of the disease, 121
Its Cure, 122
Histories of it, 123, 124
Indications of the Small-pox in Child-bed Women, 134
Spirits, Of the Chymists, what they are, 3
Spirits in the Brain, wrought by fermentation, 14
Spirits of the Blood, 47
Spots In the Plague, 108
Squinancy, An effect of the putrid Synochus, 90
Sulphur, A Chymical principle, what it is, 3
Of common Sulphur, 34
Sulphur in the Blood, 49
Swooning, In Feavers, 86
Symptomatick Feavers, what they are, 90, 91
Symptoms And signs chiefly to be noted in a putrid Feaver, 83
Symptoms to be observed in a putrid Synochus, 84
Synochus Putrid, its chief symptoms, ib.
Its kinds and cure, 90
T.
Tongue, Why covered with a white crustiness in Feavers, 85
V.
Vitrification, Or the making of Glass, 43
Vomiting In Feavers, 88
Urins, Of Urins in Feavers, 89
Prognosticks from Urins in Feavers, ib.
W.
Water, A Principle of the Chymists, what it is, 5
Wind, The North-wind apt to produce Catarrhs, 145
Wines, How made by fermentation, 19
Womb, Its falling down in Womens lying In, 126
Of the distempers of the Womb at that time, 127
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