The practice of physick in seventeen several books wherein is plainly set forth the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs : together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ...

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Title: The practice of physick in seventeen several books wherein is plainly set forth the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs : together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ...
Author: Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.
Publication: London :: Printed by Peter Cole ... and are to be sold at his shop ...,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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The PREFACE.

THe Liver (as other parts) is subject to all kind of Diseases: For as it is compoun∣ded of similarly parts it hath divers distempers, and as it is an organical part, it is Affected with Tumors and stoppages, as also with solution of Continuity, which is Wounds and Ʋlcers. And although the Dropsie be in the whol Ab∣domen or Belly, as in an Ascites or Tympanites; or in the whol Body, as in Anasarca: yet the Original thereof for the most part is from the Liver. We intend here only to shew the chief Diseases which are most ordinary, and we shal Comprehend them in Six Chapters: The first whereof is concerning the Hot di∣stemper of the Liver: The second of the Inflamation, Ʋlcer, and Imposthume of the Liver: The third of Obstruction of the Liver: The fourth of the Jaundice: The fifth of Scirrhus: The sixth of the Dropsie.