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 ...

The PREFACE.

THough all Diseases of the Joynts depend upon the same Causes, differing only in respect of the place affected, and are wont to be cured with the same Medicines; yet is there some difference between the Sciatica, or Hip-Gout, and the pains of other Joynts, by reason of the structure and largeness of those parts, of which the Huc∣kle or Hip-bone, is articulated, and made up; in respect of which, it requires some diversity in certain Medicines: therefore it is that I have resolved to treat of the Sciatica by it self. And because the Rhewmatick pain incident to the whol Body hath great Affi∣nity with the running Gout which afflicts only the Joynts, I have thought good to annex the Ex∣plication thereof in this place; so that this Book will consist only of three Chapters: Of which, The First will treat of the Pains of the Joynts in General: The Second, of the Pains of the Huckle∣bone, called Sciatica: The Third, of those Rhewmatick Pains which seize all Parts of the Body.