Thirst.
This great Thirst in Fevers doth not proceed from Heat and driness, as in a true and natural Thirst; for this will not be allayed by drinking, as that will; but this Thirst is deceitful, and is produced by some excrementitious matter, which
Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...
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- Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...
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- Couch, Robert.
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- London :: Printed for Robert Hartford ...,
- 1680.
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- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800.
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"Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34728.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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adheres to that sensitive faculty, and de∣ludes the Organ,* 1.1 as if a great dryness had suddenly come unto it, as I have ob∣served in a very malignant Fever, which the Army in Flanders was infected with, being always cold, and very thirsty; as likewise in the cold Fit of an Ague, &c. and so this is evident, that heat in Fevers is not the cause of that inordinate Thirst; besides I have extinguished this Thirst by those things which have been virtually hot;* 1.2 which, if heat had been the cause, would rather have exaspe∣rated.
Thus you have the matter, manner, and Concomitants of this Disease.
The Schools have observed some Heads, from whence they have derived many Spe∣cies of Fevers, (which I shall not insist on, because they depend upon one and the same way and means of Cure) without mention of an Hectick, or intermitting Fever, which differ only in the place they reside, which I shall speak to in their pro∣per places.
It is my chief design to do good unto my
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Countrymen, who (I know) would ra∣ther have something to ease them, and be rid of their Diseases, than to hear curious and learned Discourses, or quaint Di∣stinctions; and in pleasing them, I care not whom I displease.
As I have put the knowledge of the cause into your Heads, so I shall put a re∣medy into your Hands.
Notes
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* 1.1
Nec sitis est ex∣tincta prius quam vita bi∣b••ndo.
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* 1.2
Contraria con∣trariis curan∣tur.