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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- 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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- Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.
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- London :: Printed by Peter Cole ... and are to be sold at his shop ...,
- 1655.
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Contents
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- title page
- THE PRINTER TO THE READER.
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The Names of several Books Printed by
Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall,London, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil, neer the Exchange. - The Author to the Reader.
- An EPIGRAM, shewing who are Doctors of Physick, and who not.
- The Contents of all the Seventeen Books.
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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Head. - The PREFACE.
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CHAP. 1. Of the Distemper of the Brain. -
CHAP. II. Of Drouzie Diseases, called,Coma, Lethargy, Carus, andApoplexy. -
CHAP. III. Of Waking Coma. -
CHAP. IV. Of the Sleeping Diseases called,Catoche, andCata∣lepsis, orCongelation. -
CHAP. V. Of the Palsey, orParalysis. -
CHAP. VI. Of a Convulsion. -
CHAP. VII. Of the Epilepsie, or Falling-sickness. -
CHAP. VIII. Of the Falling-sickness in Children. -
CHAP. IX. Of Giddiness, calledVertigo. -
CHAP. X. OfTremor, or Trembling. -
CHAP. XI. OfPhrenitis, or Phrenzie. -
Chap. XII. Of the Imposthume, andSpacelus, or Mortifica∣tion of the Brain. -
CHAP. XIII. OfMania, or Madness. -
CHAP. XIV. Of Melancholly: -
CHAP. XV. Of a Catarrh, or Defluxion. -
CHAP. XVI. Of the Head-ach.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Eyes. - The PREFACE.
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CHAP. I. OfGutta Serena, orAmaurosis, -
CHAP. II. Of the Disease of the Vitrous, or Glassy Humor. -
CHAP. III. Of the Diseases in the Crystalline Humor. -
CHAP. IV. Of the Diseases of the Watery Humor, and especially of a Suffusion. -
CHAP. V. Of the Enlarging, or Dilatation of thePupilla. -
CHAP. VI. Of the straitness, or Contraction of thePupilla. -
CHAP. VII. OfAlbugo, or the white Spot called Pin and Web, and of other Colours of the Cornea changed. -
CHAP. VIII. OfOphthalmia, or Inflamation of the Eyes. -
Chap. 9. OfHypopyo, or Matter under the CORNEA. -
Chap. 10. OfPhlyctaenae, or Blisters in the Eyes. -
Chap. 11. Of the Vlcers in theCornea andAdnata. -
Chap. 12. Of a Cancer in theCornea. -
Chap. 13. Of the Rupture of the Cornea. -
Chap. 14. Of the Coming forth of theUvea. -
Chap. 15. Of Aegylops, and Fistula Lacrymalis. -
Chap. 16. Of Rhyas and Encanthis. -
Chap: 17: Of Epiphora. -
CHAP. XVIII. OfPterygium, or Haw in the Eyes, calledUnguis.
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THE THIRD BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Ears. -
THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Nostrils. -
THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Tongue. -
THE SIXTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Teeth, Gums, Jaws, Pallat, and Wind-pipe, or Larynx. - The PREFACE.
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Chap. 1. Of the Tooth-Ach. -
Chap. 2. Of the blackness and rottenness of the Teeth. -
Chap. 3. Of the Erosion or eating away, and of the Exulcerati∣on of the Gums. -
Chap. 4. Of bleeding at the Gums. -
Chap. 5. Of the Ʋcers of the Mouth, and Jaws. -
Chap. 6. Of the Relaxation of the Ʋvula, or Falling Down of the Pallate. -
Chap. 7. OfAngina, or Quinzie, or Squinzie.
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THE SEVENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Breast. - The PREFACE.
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Chap. 1. OfAsthma, or Difficulty of Breathing. -
Chap. 2. OfPleuritis, or a Pleurisie. -
Chap. 3. OfPeripneumonia, or Inflamation of the Lungs. -
Chap. 4. OfEmpyema, or matter in the hollow of the Thorax. -
Chap. 5. Of the Dropsie in the Breast. -
Chap. 6. OfHaemoptysis, or Spetting of Blood. -
Chap. 7. OfPhthisis, or Consumption.
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THE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Heart. -
THE NINTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Stomach. - The PREFACE.
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Chap. 1. Of Want of Appetite, or Loathing of Meat. -
Chap. 2. Of Dogs Appetite, calledFames canina. -
Chap. 3. Of Pica and Malacia. -
Chap. 4. Of the Thirsty Disease, calledSitis Morbosa. -
Chap. 5. Of the Hurt Concoction of the Stomach. -
Chap. 6. OfSingultus, or Hiccough. -
Chap. 8. OfNausea, and Vomiting. -
Chap. 8. Of Vomiting Blood. -
Chap. 9. Of the Disease called Cholera. -
Chap. 10. Of Pain in the Stomach, calledDolor Ventriculi. -
Chap. 11. Of the Inflamation, Ʋlcer, and Im∣posthume in the Stomach.
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THE TENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Intestines, or Guts. - The PREFACE.
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Chap. 1. Of the Chollick. -
Chap. 2. Of the Iliack Passion. -
Chap. 3. Of Astriction, or binding of the Belly. -
Chap. 4. Of Lientery, and Coeliack Passion. -
Chap. 5. Of Diarrhoea. -
Chap. 6. OfDysenteria, or Dysentery. -
Chap. 7. Of Tenesmus. -
Chap. 8. OfFluxus Hepaticus, or Flux of the Liver. -
Chap. 9. Of the Worms. -
Chap.10. Of the Immoderate Flux of the Hoemorrhoids. -
Chap. 11. Of the Pain of the Haemorrhoids.
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THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Liver. -
THE TWELEFTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Spleen. -
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Mesentery, Sweet-bread, and Caule. -
THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of the Diseases of the Reins and Bladder. - The PREFACE.
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Chap. 1. Of the Stone in the Kidneyes, and Pain in the Reins, calledDolor Nephriticus. -
Chap. 2. Of the Stone in the Bladder. -
Chap. 3. Of the Inflamation of the Reins and Bladder. -
Chap. 4. Of Pissing of Blood. -
Chap. 5. Of the Ʋlcer of the Reins and Bladder. -
Chap. 6. OfDiabetes, or extraordinary Pissing. -
Chap. 7. Of Pissing the Bed, of Involuntary Pissing, or not containing of Ʋrine. -
Chap. 8. Of stoppage of the Ʋrine, and Strangury. -
Chap. 9. OfDysuria, or Scalding of the Ʋrine.
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THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of WOMENS Diseases. - The PREFACE.
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Chap. 1. Of the Green-sickness, calledChlorosis. -
Chap. 2. Of the stoppage of the Terms. -
Chap. 3. Of the Immoderate Flux of the Courses. -
Chap. 4. Of the Whites. -
Chap. 5. Madness from the Womb. -
Chap. 6. Of the Mother-Fits, or Womb-sickness. -
Chap. 7. Of Inflamation of the Womb. -
Chap. 8. Of an Ʋlcer of the Womb. -
Chap. 9. Of aScirrhus, or a Painless hard Swelling of the Womb. -
Chap. 10. Of a Cancer of the Womb. -
Chap. 11. Of Mortification, or Gangrenation, and Spha∣celation, or Blasting of the Womb. -
Chap. 12. Of the Wombs Wind-and-Water Swelling, or Dropsie. -
Chap. 11. Of the falling down of the Womb. -
Chap. 14. Of the Womb shut up, or Imperforated. -
Chap. 15. Of Barrenness. -
Chap. 16. Of Acute and Chronical Diseases of Women with Child. -
Chap. 17. Of Abortion or Miscarriage. -
Chap. 18. Of Hard Child-birth. -
Chap. 19. Of A Dead Child. -
Chap. 20. Of the After-birth retained. -
Chap. 21. Of Immoderate Flux of theLoches, or Child-bed Purgations. -
Chap. 22. Of Suppression of Child-bed Purgations. -
Chap. 23. Of Gripings after Child-bearing. -
Chap. 24. Of Acute Diseases of Women in Child-bed.
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THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of Diseases of the Joynts, and Rhewmatick Pain of the whol Body. -
THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK.
Of FEAVERS. - title page
- A Physical Dictionary.
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The Vertues, Use, and variety of Operations of the True and Phylosophical
AURUM POTABILE, Attained by the Studies of Doctor Freeman, and Dr.Culpeper, and left with his Widdow, and administred by a Physitian in her House neerLondon, on the East side of Spit∣tle-fields, next door to the red Lyon. -
REader, By reason of the mistakes in the printing of this Book in Latin, there are two words mis-translated: And by reason of the foulness of the English Copy, there are some other mis∣takes in printing. All which are thus to be amended.