The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.
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The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.
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A. B.
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London :: printed by T.R. and N.T. and are to be sold by the booksellers, and by the author, at the sign of the Angel against the Church-door at the upper end of Thredneedle-street, near the Royal-Exchange,
M DC LXXIV. [1674]
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"The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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THE INDEX.
Chap. 1. MEdicine defined. Pag. 1.
Chap. 2. Temprraments. 4.
Chap. 3. Of Parts. 7.
Chap. 4. Of Humours. 9.
Signs of a Sanguine Person. 12.
Signs of •• Cholleric•• Person. 13.
Signs of a Flegmatick Person. 14.
Signs of a Melancholly Person. 15.
Of Spirits. 19.
Of the Faculties. 21.
Of Actions. 22.
Chap. 5. Of tbings Natural. 22.
Of Meats. 23.
Of Sleep. 25.
Exercise how to be performed. 27.
Passion of the Mind. 29.
Chap. 6. A Tract concerning the Scurvy. 33.
Chap. 7. The manner of its Generation. 38,
Chap. 8. A continuation of the Scurvy. 46.
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Chap. 9. The Cause in the Blood. 51.
Chap. 10. The Extrinsick Cause. 55
Chap. 11. The Signs abbreviated. 58.
Chap. 12. Tbe Symptoms by which Persons may discern that they have the Scurvy 59.
Chap. 10. The Cure of the Scurvy. 68.
Vegitables appropriate to the Scurvy. 71.
Rules to be observed in Bread and Beer for Scorbuticks and all others. 72.
Properties of the best Beer & Ale. 81
The Nature, usefulness and profit of Wine. 97.
Of the Stone in the Bladder and Reins. 104.
The Diseases of the Spleen. 108.
The Tenesmus. 110.
Of the Dysury. 110.
Of the Strangury. 112.
Chap. 13. The Leues Venerea. 97.
Chap. 15. the Diagnostick Signs. 103.
Chap. 16. Signs of the increasing Pox. 106.
Chap. 17. Signs of an Inveterate Leues Venerea 110.
Chap. 18 Of a Gonorrhea. 116.
Chap. 19. Description of the Dropsie. 119.
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Chap. 20. The Hypochondriack Melancholly. 124.
Chap. 21. The Histerick Passion. 129.
Chap. 22. The Jaundise. 113.
Chap. 23. The Chollick. 135.
Chap. 24. Diseases of the Liver. 138.
Chap. 25. Cachexia. 142.
Chap. 26. Inflamation of the Lungs. 144.
Chap. 27. A Pleurisie. 145.
Chap. 28. An Impyemate. 147.
Chap. 29. De Phthisis. 148.
Chap. 30. A Catarrh. 150.
Chap. 31. A Dysentery. 153.
Chap. 32. A Diarrhea. 156.
Chap. 33. Caeliack and Lienterial Passion. 117.
Chap. 34. The Asthma. 159.
Chap. 35. Of the Gout. 161.
Chap. 36. Of the Angina or the Quinsie. 162.
Chap. 37. Descriptioni of a Phrensie. 165.
Chap. 38. Melancholly Madness. 167.
Chap. 39. Of a Mania. 168.
Chap. 40. The Palpitation of the Heart. 170.
Chap. 41. Of Worms. 171.
Chap. 42. A continual Fever. 173.
Chap. 43. An Intermitting Fever. 181.
Chap. 44. A Hectick Fever. 186.
Chap. 45. The Ricket. 189.
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Chap. 46. A Convulsion. 191.
Chap. 47. Of a Rheumatism. 193.
Medicines for every Disease. 194.
The great Arcana's. 209.
Instances of great Cures. 219.
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