The method of chemical philosophie and physick. Being a brief introduction to the one, and a true discovery of the other. namely, of diseases, their qualities, causes, symptoms, and certain cures. The like never before extant in English.
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- The method of chemical philosophie and physick. Being a brief introduction to the one, and a true discovery of the other. namely, of diseases, their qualities, causes, symptoms, and certain cures. The like never before extant in English.
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- London :: printed by J.G. for Nath: Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill,
- 1664.
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- Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Early works to 1800.
- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
- The Preface.
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Books Printed for
Nath. Brook, at the Angel inCornhill. -
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- An Introduction to Chemick Philosophy and Physick.
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PART I.
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CHAP. I. The assigned Star of the Ancients. -
CHAP. II. Of the Philosophy ofHermes andHippocrates. -
CHAP. III. Of the Essential Form. -
CHAP. IV. Of the First Matter. Whether the First Matter be the same with the Essential Form. -
CHAP. V. Of the Native or In-bred Heat. -
CHAP. VI. Of Nature. -
CHAP. VII. Of the Soul. What the Soul is, and the substance of it.
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PART II.
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CHAP. I. Of the Original of Forms. -
CHAP. II. Of the difference of Lives, and the varieties of Baulms in the Macrocosm. -
CHAP. III. Of the Beginnings of Bodies, and their Original Dif∣ferences and Properties. -
A true and Philosophical Explana∣tion of all Diseases, both Astral and Material, Acute and Chronical.
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CHAP. I. Of the Beginnings of Diseases. -
CHAP. II. Of the Spirits and Stars of the Elements. -
CHAP. III. Of the visible Stars of the Firmament. -
CHAP. IV. Of the Being of Stars. -
CHAP. V. Of the Being of Poison in the Visible Stars. -
CHAP. VI. Of the differences of Stars, namely, of the Benign, the Mean, and the Extreme hurtful. -
CHAP. VII. Of the differences of Stars, of which some Benign some Malicious. -
CHAP. VIII. Of the Astral Impression. -
CHAP. IX. Of the Anatomy of Astral Diseases. -
CHAP. X. Of the Natural Being. -
CHAP. XI. How much the Firmament of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm diffrs. -
CHAP. XII. How Errours do chance to mans Astronomy, and how from the Being of Nature may be produced the Being of Diseases, or Being of Poison. -
CHAP. XIII. Of Curing of Astral Diseases of the Greater and Lesser World. -
CHAP. XIV. Of the Being of Poison. -
CHAP. XV. What the Being of Poison is. -
CHAP. XV. What the Tartar is, which are the kinds, and which are Excrements. -
CHAP. XVII. Of the Excrements of the first three. -
CHAP. XVIII. Of the twofold Tartar, namely, of Meat and Drink, and what the difference of it is, and how much it differs in the Cure. -
CHAP. XIX. Of the Tartar in the more principal Members. -
CHAP. XX. Of the Tartar of the Lungs, Brain, Heart, Gall and Spleen. -
CHAP. XXI. Of the Tartar of the Bloud, Flesh, and Marrow. -
CHAP. XXII. Of the Tartar of the Flesh. -
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Tartar of the Marrow. -
CHAP. XXIV. Of the Essence of Seed.
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PART III.
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CHAP. I. Of the unity of the Stars of Generation and Transplan∣tation, and of the Curing of Diseases. -
CHAP. II. Of the Causes of the Pain of the Head, and the true Cure of it. -
CHAP. III. Of the Diseases which annoy the substance of the Brain, and first of the Phrensie. -
CHAP. IV. Of Out-raging Madness. -
CHAP. V. Of Melancholy. It is a Sowerness. -
CHAP. VI. Of the Lethargy. -
CHAP. VII. Of the Falling-sickness and his kinds. -
CHAP. VIII. Of the Glewish moisture. -
CHAP. IX. Of the Spasm. -
CHAP. X. Of the Excrements of the Brain and of Plegm. -
CHAP. XI. Of the Diseases and Symptoms of the Eyes and their Causes. -
CHAP. XII. Of the Diseases of the Ears, their Symptoms and their Causes. -
CHAP. XIII. Of the Diseases of the Nostrils, their Causes and Symptoms. -
CHAP. XIV. Of the hurts of the Mouth and Face, and their Causes. -
CHAP. XV. Of the Diseases, Causes, and Symptoms of the Tongue and Jaws. -
CHAP. XVI. Of the hurts of the Lungs, their Symptoms, causes, and Signs. -
CHAP. XVII. Of the diseases of the Breast. -
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Affections of the Heart. -
CHAP. XIX. Of the Diseases of the Ventricle. -
CHAP. XX. Of the Hurts, Causes, and Signs of the Liver. -
CHAP. XXI. Of the diseases in the Receptacles of the Gall. -
CHAP. XXII. Of the Diseases of the Milt, and the Causes and Signs of them. -
CHAP. XXIII. Of the diseases of the middle of the bowels or Mesenterium of that part which is calledPancreas. -
CHAP. XXIV. Of the diseases of the Intestines and their Causes and Signs. -
CHAP. XXV. Of the Symptoms of the Intestines, and their Causes and Signs. -
CHAP. XXVI. Of the diseases of the Fundament. -
CHAP. XXVII. Of the Diseases of the Reins, their causes and signs. -
CHAP. XXVIII. Of the diseases of the Bladder, Causes and Signs. -
CHAP. XXIX. Of the diseases of the Cods, their Causes and Signs. -
CHAP. XXX. Of the affects of the Womb, their Causes and Signs. -
CHAP. XXXI. Of the Symptoms and Causes of the Womb. -
CHAP. XXXII. Of theArthritis, Chiragra, Gonagra, andPodagra. -
CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Plague and the Causes thereof. -
CHAP. XXXIV. Of the Leprie and the causes of it. -
CHAP. XXXV. OfLues Venerea, and the causes. -
CHAP. XXXVI. Of Feavers and their causes.
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- publisher's note