The PREFACE.
WE find by many Authors great Volumns written touching the Theory and Cure of Feavers; in which, innumerable Controversies, and difficult Disputations are handled. Which as they are in the Schools very useful, yea, and necessary; so are they tedious to most Physitians, who having left the Ʋniversities, do give themselves unto the Practice of Physick: For they desire a short and cleer Expli∣cation of the Theory of Diseases, which may suffice to declare their Nature, Cau∣ses, and Signs, both Diagnostick and Prognostick, with their right Method of Curing, which is the only thing they regard. It being my endeavor in this whol Work to satisfie their Desires, I have banished all Controversies, briefly expounding the decision of Questions only which seem most nices∣sary for a Practitioner. This we have likewise done in our Doctrine of Feavers; and letting pass all tedious Controversies, which are continually handled in the Schools, usque ad Nauseam; we have declared only such things as principally regard Practice. And this Book for better Methods sake, I have distributed into three Sections, following that General Division of Feavers, into Sim∣ple, Putrid, and Pestilential. So that the first Section of this Book shall treat of Simple Feavers: The second of Putrid: And the third of Pestilential.