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THE TABLE To the First Part of PHARMACUTICE RATIONALIS.

A

• AFfections, Description, and Uses of the Parts in which Medicins being first to operate. pag. 3.
• Anatomical description of an Artery. p. 123.
• Anodinous Medicins their distinction. p. 137.
• Antimony, wherein its vomitive power consists. p. 25.
• Crude Antimony no Vomit, how the particles of it become a Vomit. ibid.
• Its various Preparations. ib.
• As Glass of Antimony, and the reason thereof ib.
• Flower of Antimony, and its reason. ib.
• Crocus Metallorum. p. 26.
• And the reason of it. ib.
• Sulphur of Antimony how to prepare, and the reason of it. ib.
• It is a Composition of Antimony and common Sulphur. ib.
• The reason of the Preparation. p. 27.
• Its Correction. ib.
• Antimony Diaphoretick. p. 92.
• Antidotes and Cordials have always been of most common use. p. 104
• Their common Attributes. ib.
• Whence Remedies that preserve Life, are so called. ib.
• They act not properly on the Heart, but on the Bloud and Animal Spirits, and how on the Bloud. ib.
• They are requisite when the Blood is too loose p. 106
• Antidotes preserving and curing. p. 112
• Opiates, why called Antidotes. p. 132
• Aptness to catch Cold. p. 97
• The Reason. p. 98
• Its Original. p. 99
• Cure. ib.
• Arteries are endued with moving fibres, and are moved like other Muscles, or the heart it self. p. 116
• Are often troubled with Convulsions. ib.
• Their Anatomical Description. p. 123
• They have four Coats according to Galen, ib.
• Their use. p. 124
• In an Artery the Plat of Vessels above the Muscular Coat, is otherwise in the Viscera, and the reason. ib.
• Aurum Vitae. p. 29

B

• Bezoarticum Minerale, its preparation, and reason thereof. p. 91
• Bloud, that it might rightly separate the Serum, it ought to be kept from being too thick, or too thin. p. 63
• Faulty in its heat and temperature. p. 105
• how it becomes less hot than it should be ib.
• Being irritated in its temper or mixture, it requires Cordials onely in Fevers. ib.
• And then it is either too strict or close in its constitution, or too loose. ib.
• What remedies the latter fault requires. p. 106
• Bovius's Hercules. p. 29
• And the reason of the Preparation. p. 30
• His Epicaene, or common Menstruum of both kinds. p. 30

C

• Catalogue of all Narcoticks. p. 137
• Cause of the frequent motions in Purges. p. 39
• Ceruse of Antimony. p. 92
• Coffee and its effects. p. 142
• The reason of it. ib.
• Its conveniences, and inconveniences. p. 143
• It makes People lean and paralytic, &c. ib.
• Common Precipitate Mercury. p. 28
• The reason of the preparation, and why it grows red in this case. p. 29
• Composition of Antimony and common Sulphur. p. 26
• The reason of its preparation. ib.
• Its correction. ib.
• Convulsive motions in Muscles explained and distinguished. p. 119.
• Some private Convulsions belong to them on∣ly. ib.
• Two sorts of them. ib.
• The latter a kind of trepidation in a Muscle, p. 120
• Its true reason. ib.
• Their Causes not rightly imputed to the Spleen ib.
• ...

• ... Contractions performed by fibres onely. 4
• Cordials and Antidotes, have always been of more common use. 104
• When Remedies that preserve Life are so called. ib.
• They act not properly on the Heart, but on the Bloud and Animal Spirits. ib.
• How on the Bloud. ib.
• They are required onely in Fevers, the bloud being vitiated in its temper or mixture, as being either too strict and close in its con∣stitution, or too loose; what the latter re∣quires, and what the first. p. 106
• Salt Cordials of different sorts. p. 107
• Some impregnated with volatile Salt. ib.
• Some with an Alcali, or petrifying Salt. ib.
• Some have a fluid, or sower Salt, or a fixed Salt in them. ib.
• Or a nitrous Salt in them. p. 108
• Which are all more properly called Vitals. ib.
• How when taken into the Stomach, they pre∣sently operate upon the Bloud. ib.
• Cordials that respect the Animal Spirits ib.
• Are of two kinds, smooth and gentle to the spirits. ib.
• And how they work upon the Bowels, or Sen∣ses, or Brain: or they are rough or provo∣cative, which reduce the spirits to order, by as it were lashing them. ib.
• Cordials, their several sorts and Receipts. p. 110
• Of such as increase the heat of Bloud. ib.
• Their abuse. ib.
• Of such as allay its excessive heat. p. 111
• Of such as open the Constitution of the Bloud, whilest it boils up, and is too close. ib.
• Of such whose ground is a volatile or alcali Salt. ib.
• Nitrous Cordials, and such whose ground is an acid, or fixed Salt. p. 112
• What Cordials most proper in Pleurisies. ib.
• Crocus Metallorum, and the reason of its preparation. p. 26

D

• Description, uses, and affections of the Parts in which Medicins begin first to operate. p. 3
• Diabetes, its description. p. 71
• Formerly rare, and is not yet well known. ib.
• Proceeds not from the attraction in the Reins, but rather from a fusion in the Bloud. ib.
• Its immediate cause, chiefly in the Bloud. p. 72
• Sometimes partly in the Reins. ib.
• Most commonly it proceeds from the dissolu∣tion of the Bloud. ib.
• Its original cause. p. 73
• How it and a Dropsie differ. ib.
• Its evident causes. p. 74
• Its symptoms explicated. ib.
• Its prognosticks p. 75
• Indications of cure. ib.
• Stories. p. 76
• It proceeds from the same cause as the English Sweat. p. 103
• Diacodiates. p. 138
• Diaphoreticks, what are their Forms. p. 87
• Such as have the Integral p•…•…rts of a mixed Body for their Basis. ib.
• The Receipts of them. ib.
• Those that are easily got. p. 89
• Forms of Chymical Diaphoreticks. ib.
• Such as have spirituous particles for their foundations, and such as have spirituous
• particles united with others. ib.
• Those whose Basis is Salt, fixed, or volatile, or nitrous, or acid Salt. p. 90
• Sulphurous Diaphoreticks. p. 91
• Dogs-Tongue, its preparation. p. 140
• Dropsie, how it and a Diabetes differ. p. 73
• Dysentery of London. p. 81
• Two sorts thereof. ib.
• Its cure. ib. & 54, 56
• The reason thereof, p. 52
• Its remove causes. p. 53
• Why Autumnal and Epidemical. ib.
• Its first and evident causes. ib.
• Its description. p. 54
• An irregular Fever useth to accompany it. ib.
• Three things concur to cause it. p. 56
• Its Stories. p. 57, &c.
• An unbloudy Dysentery proceeds from the same cause as the English Sweat. p. 103

E

• Evacuation by Stool, what moves it. p. 38
• Expansions caused by nervous fibres. p. 4
• Examples of strong Purges. p. 42
• Extract of Black Hellebore. p. 49

F

• Fallopius his opinion of the motion of the Mem∣branes. p. 4
• Fibres, Membranes, Vessels, and Passages, the second subjects upon which Medicins work. p. 3
• Flower of Antimony, and the reason of its Pre∣paration. p. 25
• Of Sal Armoniack. p. 92
• Forms of Diureticks. p. 64

G

• Galens Anatomical Description of an Artery. p. 123
• Its Coats, according to him, are four. ib.
• Glass of Antimony, and the reason of its Prepa∣ration. p. 25
• Guts, they have three Coats. p. 10
• How fastned to the Mesentery. ib.
• Their Use. p. 11
• Their motion whence it proceeds. ib.
• Their natural expulsive motion, how perfor∣med. p. 36, 37.
• How excited. ib.

H

• Hairy Vail, its uses, p. 5
• Heart, its indispositions, are either a trembling, or a beating of it, p. 114
• The latter described, and its cause inquired into, ib.
• It depends oftentimes upon the indisposition of the Bloud, and Vessels belonging to the Heart, p. 115
• How it is a convulsive Distemper, p. 116
• Whence it often arises, ib.
• Why this Disease is familiar to Hypochon∣driacal People, p. 117
• Its Cure, by what means procured, when the Bloud is in fault, ib.
• How it ought to be dealt withal when it ariseth from an obstruction. ib.
• Its cure when it arises from Convulsions in the Arteries, p. 118
• How the Hearts trembling differs from its Palpitation, ib.
• Its trembling described, it depends upon the doctrine of the Muscles, ib.
• The Heart not disturbed by vapours, p. 120
• Among the Hearts distempers, an intermit∣ting Pulse may be reckoned for one, p. 121
• Helmonts Laudanum, p. 140
• Histories of the efficacy of Opiates, p. 132
• Humours, their several sorts, p. 2
• How Medicins operate on them, ib.
• They and the Spirits are the first subjects upon which Medicins work, p. 3

I

• Indications of Vomiting, p. 23
• Indispositions in the Heart, are either a trem∣bling, or the beating of it, p. 114
• The latter described, and its cause inquired into, ib.
• It depends oftentimes upon the Indisposition of the Bloud and vessels belonging to the Heart, p. 115
• How it is a convulsive Distemper, p. 116
• Intermitting Pulse may be reckoned for one among the Distempers of the Heart, p. 121
• Two sorts thereof, ib.
• The first by default of the Aorta, ib.
• The second from the Heart it self, p. 122
• Not always an ill token, ib.
• Its several sorts, ib.
• Its cause, ib.
• How to know when it is coming, ib.
• Its cure, ib.

L

• Lasks symptomatical, what is to be done in them, p. 50
• Laudana, or Opiates invented by the Modern Doctors, p. 139
• Laudana in the Form of an Extract, ib.
• Liquid Laudana, ib.
• What is the best Menstruum to make Lau∣danum with, ib.
• Helmonts Laudanum, p. 140
• Laudanum extracted, p. 142
• Liquid Laudanum lactarized, ib.
• Liquid Laudanum prepared with Quinces, ib.

M

• Medicins, an account of their operations want∣ing, p. 1
• Their Mechanical reason inquired into, ib.
• The places where they begin to operate, ib.
• The Subjects on which they operate, ib.
• How they operate upon the Spirits and Hu∣mours, p. 2
• In every kind of Medicin are three things to be observed, ib.
• Medicins causing sleep, 125
• Hindering sleep, 142
• Stopping excessive pissing, p. 77
• Against excessive Purging, p. 50
• Excessive vomiting, p. 31
• Membranes, Fibres, Vessels, and Passages, se∣cond subjects for Medicins to work upon, i p. 3
• Menstruum of Bovius his Hercules, and the reason of it, p. 30
• The best Monstruum to make Laudanum with, p. 139
• Milk, how to hinder its curdling, p. 61
• The Reasons shewed, p. 62
• Mercurial Medicins how they work, p. 27
• Upon the Stomach, p. 29
• Mercury, or Quick-silver not purging or ve∣miting of it self, p. 27
• How made to operate, ib.
• Precipitated by it self, how prepared, and the reason of its process, p. 28
• Precipitate Solar, how made, and the reason of its preparation, ib.
• Common Precipitate with corrosive liquors, and the reason of it, ib.
• Mercurius Vitae, and the reason of its Prepa∣ration, p. 27
• Its correction, ib.
• Mercurius Dulcis, and corrosive Mercury sub∣limate, how prepared, and the reason of both, p. 48
• Method of this Treatise, p. 2
• Minerals, some of their Medicins not properly called Purging, p. 44

N

• Narcoticks, A Catalogue of all of them, p. 137
• Their grounds, p. 141
• Nerves, to what end so many are inserted into the Coats of the Arteries, p. 116

O

• Opiates, Four things to be inquired into concer∣ning their Nature, p. 125
• ...

• ... How they work upon the Animal Spirits, ib.
• In what sort of Particles their virtue consists, p. 126
• In what places they work primarily and chiefly, ib.
• When they kill the outmost spirits, they make the next to them white, ib.
• And lessen or recall the affux of them, p. 10
• The nervous parts, ib.
• The reason thereof, p. 127
• How far and into what parts their Virtue is extended, ib.
• They poison not the Bloud, as théy do the Spirits, ib.
• They work chiefly upon the Animal Spirits, p. 128
• Sometimes their force reaches the Cerebellum, ib.
• Their good and bad effects, ib.
• The good respect either the Spirits, or Bloud and Humours, ib.
• Good for the Spirits, in respect to sense and motion, ib.
• To both in a different kind, ib.
• In respect of the inward senses to Watching and Madness, ib.
• In respect of the external sense for pain, p. 129
• How they remove Pain without sleep, or af∣ter it, ib.
• The reason thereof, p. 130
• They remove Convulsions, for the same rea∣son, ib.
• They are good in the Gout and Stone, ib.
• How they cure irregularities of Motion, ib.
• They diminish the vehemency of the Pulse and respiration, ib.
• They regulate the disorders of Respiration, p. 131
• How their Particles work upon the Bloud, ib.
• They soon pass through the Bloud, ib.
• Therefore are called Antidotes, p. 132
• They cause Sweat and Urine, ib.
• Notable Histories of their Efficacy, ib.
• Opiates of the Ancient, p. 138
• Opium, how many and by what way it h•…•…rs us, p. 133
• Its poison works first upon the Brain, and then upon the hinder part of the Brain, ib.
• Hurtful to the Head, Breast, and Belly, p. 134
• How it works upon the Turks, ib.
• What hurt it doth the Breast, ib.
• What to the Belly, p. 135
• Medicinal cautions concerning its use, in re∣spect of the Patients constitution, of the Distemper of the Animal Spirits, and the Bloud and Humours, ib.
• Its Nature and Parts, p. 137
• In what its power consists, ib.
• It works not the same way in all, ib.
• Hurts not a Dog, as it doth a Cat or a Man, ib.
• Some Instances thereof, p. 138
• Its Preparation, ib.
• Oil Diuretick p. 68
• Oil of Wine, p. 70
• Oils how extracted, p. 94

P

• Palpitation of the Heart described, p. 114
• Its cause inquired into, ib.
• It depends oftentimes upon the indisposition of the Bloud and vessels belonging to the Heart, p. 115
• How it is a convulsive Distemper, p. 116
• From whence it often arises, ib.
• Why this disease familiar to Hypochondria∣cal persons, p. 117
• Its cure, and by what means procured, when the Bloud is in fault, ib.
• How it ought to be dealt withall when it ari∣seth from an obstruction, ib.
• Its cure when it ariseth from Convulsions in the Arteries, p. 118
• How it dissers from the trembling of the Heart, ib.
• Palsie in the Stomach, how it may be cured, p. 34.
• The first Passages, Fibres, Membranes, and Ves∣sels, are the second Subjects upon which Medicins work, p. 3
• Passages and Vessels belonging to the Guts, p. 12
• Philonium, is good for the Colick in a cold tem∣perament, p. 142
• Physick, its original, progress, and increase, p. 1
• It supplies the defects of natural evacuations p. 80
• Pills purgative of several sorts, p. 46
• Diuretical, p. 66
• To cause sleep, p. 142
• Of Storax and Cynogloss, to cause sleep, ib.
• Places where Medicins begin to operate, p. 1
• Poppy, white, its nature, p. 137
• Red Poppy, its preparation, p. 140
• Preparations of Opiates, p. 137
• Of other Medicins in their several titles
• Prevention of excessive Purging, p. 50
• Pulse intermitting, a Distemper of the Heart. p. 121
• Two sorts thereof, ib.
• The first by the default of the Aorta, ib.
• The second proceeds from the Heart it self, p. 122
• Not always an ill token, ib.
• Its several sorts, ib.
• Its cause, ib.
• How to know when it is curing, ib.
• Its cure, ib.
• Purging, its description, p. 35
• Contrary to Vomiting, ib.
• Purgers, how they work upon the Stomach and Guts, p. 38
• The cause of their frequent motions, p. 39
• ...

• ... Their operation in the Duodenum, Gall, and Sweet-bread juice, ib.
• The Glandules and mouths of the Arteries, p. 40
• The Bloud and whole habit, ib.
• Three degrees of Purging by Medicin, ib.
• Purges work not by attraction or specifick qualities, p. 41
• Purging operations, their differences, ib.
• Strong Purges, the ills that follow them, ib.
• A notable Example thereof, p. 42
• A Purges Virtues are either irritating or fermenting, p. 43
• Purges are taken most from Vegetables, p. 49
• Their various sorts, ib.
• Scarce any made of Minerals though Vomits and Sweating Medicins are, ib.
• Those from Minerals improperly so called, ib.
• Purging Vegetables need not much Chymical Preparation, p. 45
• Some bettered by Extraction, ib.
• Excessive Purging, p. 50
• By Urine, p. 59

Q

• Quicksilver, of it self not Purging or Vomiting, p. 27
• How made to operate, ib.
• See Mercury.

R

• Reason why Membranes are distended, p. 5
• Why we vomit rather than discharge by Stool, p. 20
• Of the several Preparations of Antimony, p. 25, 26, &c.
• Of the difference of Mineral Medicins, &c. p. 44
• Of some Chymical Preparations, p. 48
• Of excessive Purging caused by Medicins, p. 50
• Of some Chymical Diaphoreticks, p. 91, &c.
• Why Sweating is sometimes a symptome, sometimes an effect of another Disease, p. 96
• Receipts for Vomits, p. 24, &c.
• Against Vomiting, p. 32
• For Purges, p. 45
• For excessive Purging, p. 50
• To provoke Urine, p. 64
• For excessive Pissing. p. 77
• To cause Sweat, p. 87
• Of Opiates, p. 137
• Reins, their make and use, p. 60
• They have a ferment in them, ib.
• Part of the Nutritive juice is carried away through them, ib.
• Relation between Piss and Sweat, p. 59
• Remedies proper when the Bloud becomes less
• hot than it should be, p. 105
• And when it is too hot, ib.
• Renodeus his complaint against Laudanum, p. 139
• Rosin of Jalap and Sca•…•…, and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 their Preparations, p. 49
• Of Guaiacum, and •…•…e rea•…•…on of its prepara∣tion, p. 94

S

• Sal Prunellae, and the reason of its Preparation, p. 68
• Sal Armoniac, its Flowers, p. 92
• Its Spirit, p. 93.
• It hath no Sulphur as that of Harts horn, &c. hath, ib.
• It of Amber, p. 70
• Reason of its process, p. 71
• Salt, their divers states, p. 64
• Salt of Tartar, what it contributes to the ex∣tracting a purging Tincture, p. 45
• Salt Cordials imprognated with volatile Salt, p. 107
• With an Alcali, or petrifying Salt, ib.
• Such as have in them a fluid, or sower Salt, ib.
• Fixed Salt, ib.
• A Nitrous Salt in them, p. 108
• Serum, how separated from the Bloud, p. 59
• Not attracted to the Reins, p. 60
• It is separated by percolation, ib.
• With it part of the nutritive Juice is carried away through the Reins, ib.
• It is separated from the Bloud, sometimes with difficulty, sometimes too easily, p. 61
• Reason thereof how explained, ib.
• That the Bloud may rightly separate it, it ought to be kept from growing too thick or too thin, p. 63
• Its excessive and defective separation, ib.
• Septalius says that Physitian is a sneaking Fool that draws Opiates into practice in light Distempers, p. 135
• Stories of Dysenteries, p. 57
• Of Diabetes, p. 76
• Of immoderate Sweating, p. 101
• Of the English Sweat, ib.
• Spirits and Humours are the first Subjects upon which Medicins work, p. 3
• Spirit of Nitre, and the reason of it, p. 69
• Of Sea-salt, ib.
• Of Soot, Harts horn, &c. p. 93
• Of Sal Armoniack, ib.
• It hath no Sulphur in it, as that of Harts horn, &c. hath, ib.
• Spirit of Guaiacum, Box, &c. p. 94
• Of Tartar, ib.
• Stomach, its description, p. 5
• Anatomy, 7, &c.
• How affected in Vomiting, p. 15
• An Organ of Sense in it, p. 17
• Sulphur of Antimony how to prepare, p. 26
• The reason thereof, ib.
• Sulphur, or Oil of Wine, p. 70
• Sulphurous Diaphoreticks, p. 91
• Suppression of Urine proceeds from compactness of Bloud, p. 72
• Confirmed by Anatomical Observations, ib.
• ...

• ... Sweating, how it differs from Purging, 80
• Sweat, its matter, ib.
• Things required in Sweating, p. 81
• Sweating excessive, its causes, p. 82
• Its true nature, and unmediate and remote cause, ib.
• Too frequent, p. 95
• Sometimes the symptom; sometimes the effect of another Disease, ib.
• The reason, p. 96
• Its causes and cure, ib.
• Its third sort, 101
• A notable story of it, and its reason, ib.
• The English Sweat, ib.
• Its Story, ib.
• Its description, p. 102
• Cure, ib.
• The reason thereof, ib.
• Its primary cause, in the nervous liquor, ib.
• Reasons of its symptoms, p. 103
• Symptomatical Lasks, what to be done to them, p. 50
• Syrup and Water of Rhead Poppy, p. 144

T

• Tobacco, a Narcotick, the effects of Smoaking it, and the reason, p. 140, 141
• Theophrastus his Gilla, p. 24
• Its use, ib.
• Tincture of Tartar, and reason of it, p. 70
• Trembling of the Heart, how it differs from the Palpitation thereof, p. 118
• Its description, ib.
• It depends upon the doctrine of the Muscles, ib.
• Its Cure, p. 120
• Turbith Mineral, and the reason of its prepa∣ration, p. 29
• Tympany, its cause hinted at, p. 6

V

• Vessels, Fibres, Membranes, and Passages are the second Subjects upon which Medicins work, p. 3
• Vessels and Passages belonging to the Guts, p. 12
• Vomits, what Fibres perform its business, p. 15
• Vomiting is a Convulsion, p. 16
• How it differs from other Sp•…•…sms, ib.
• Its immediate cause, ib.
• How Vomiting moves the Spirits, ib.
• Its remote and chief cause, p. 17
• Provocatives to Vomit, are either taken in at the mouth, or generated in the Stomach, or sent from some other part, ib.
• The Vomitive matter comes through the Nerves too, p. 18
• Vomiting by consent of what parts it comes, ib.
• Causes of Vomiting, p. 19
• Vomits, how they work, p. 20, 21
• The stronger Vomits are next to poison, ib.
• Why Intervals in Vomiting, p. 21
• Vomits not easily stopt, ib.
• Why they work sooner in some, p. 22
• How they work in a solid Form, ib.
• They work not alike in all Doses, ib.
• Nor by a specifick virtue, ib.
• Nor upon peculiar Humours, ib.
• If convenient, they are better than any other Thysick, p. 23
• They are to be used with caution, ib.
• Their Indications, ib.
• Their Receipts, p. 24
• Immoderate Vomiting proceeds either from an Emetick Medicin, or other causes, p. 31
• The reasons of the former explained, ib.
• Its Cure, ib.
• Natural Vomiting is either Critical or Sym∣ptomatical, ib.
• The latter is either Idiopathetical, or affect∣ing one proper part; or Symphathical, af∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by consent. p. 32
• H•…•…w Vom•…•…ng that arises from a vitiated St•…•…mach is to be cured ib.
• Vomiting caus•…•…d •…•…akness of the Sto∣m•…•… •…•…es; either the Fibres are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 much relax•…•…d; or the Nerves are obstructed, so as the Animal spirits cannot flow into them, p. 33
• The Cure in the former case, ib.
• The Cure in the latter, p. 34
• Urine, what its matter is, and whence it comes, p. 59
• It is threefold, ib.
• Its matter proceeds chiefly from the mass of Bloud, p. 61
• Its suppression proceeds from the compactness of the Bloud, p. 72
• The same confirmed from Anatomical Obser∣vations, ib.
• Why sweet like Honey in a Diabetes, p. 74
• Uses, Descriptions, and Affections of the parts in which Medicins begin first to operate, p. 3

W

• Water and Syrup of Rhead Poppy, p. 141
• Weazon, it hath three Coats, p. 3
• The inner Coat is nervous, but covered with a kind of Doun, ib.
• It goes into the mouth of the Stomach, and covers it for some space, and creates a sense of tasting in the Weazon and mouth of the Stomach, ib.
• The second Coat hath two opposite ranks of Fibres that cause motion, ib.
• The third and outmost is common to it and the Stomach, &c. ib.
• The uses of these Coats inquired into, ib.

Y

• Yawning how performed, p. 4