Iatrica, seu, Praxis medendi, The practice of curing being a medicinal history of above three thousand famous observations in the cure of diseases, performed by the author hereof : together with several of the choicest observations of other famous men ... : wherein for the most part you will find 1. the constitution of the body of the sick, 2. the symptoms predominant, 3. the cause of the disease, what? 4. the exact method which was taken in the cure, 5. an exact account of the medicines exhibited, with the order of their exhibition, various doses and success thereupon ... / perform'd by William Salmon ...

CHAP. II. Of the MEGRIM.

The Authors Observations.

• Sect. 1. An Hemicrania, or Megrim proceeding from the Pox, 17.
• Sect. 2. A Megrim proceeding from a hot Scorbutick habit of Body, 18.
• Sect. 3. A Megrim proceeding from a scorbute in a cold Constitution, 20.
• Sect. 4. A Megrim proceeding from a certain foul∣ness of the Stomach, ib.
• Sect. 5. A Megrim arising from Blood over heared, 21.
• Sect. 6. A Megrim proceeding from a Stomach op∣pressed with Flegm, ib.

• Sect. 7. A Megrim arising from a great blow on the Head, ib.
• Sect. 8. A Megrim with a violent Cough and shortness of Breath, 22.
• Sect. 9. A Megrim with a Catarrh and Scirrhus tu∣mor of the Spleen. ib.
• Sect. 10. A Megrim which proved mortal in a Spha∣celation of the Brain, 25.
• Sect. 11. A Megrim proceeding from a cold taken, 26.
• Sect. 12. A Megrim with the Cramp in many parts of the Body, ib.
• Sect. 13. A Megrim in a Woman which had lately been delivered, 27.

Observations from other Authors.

• Sect. 14. An old Megrim cured by opening an Artery 27.
• Sect. 15. A Megrim with a Catarrh, the Councel of Fernelius, 28.
• Sect. 16. An inveterate Megrim cured by a flux of Blood by the Bowels, 29.
• Sect. 17. Another inveterate Megrim, ib.
• Sect. 18. Another Megrim cured by opening an Ar∣tery, 30.
• Sect. 19. A Megrim returning in the Winter time, ib.
• Sect. 20. A Megrim with pain of the Eyes, and infla∣mation of the Ey-lids. 32.
• Sect. 21. A Megrim cured by opening an Artery in the Temples, that by all other means was in∣curable, 33.
• Sect. 22. A Megrim cured by washing in cold Water, ibid.
• Sect. 23. A Megrim arising from Gluttony, ib.
• Sect. 24. A Megrim proceeding from a cold humour, ibid.
• Sect. 25. A Megrim from an hot cause, with an Oph∣thalmia, 34.
• Sect. 26. A Megrim which came once a month, 35.
• Sect. 27. A periodick pain in the hinder part of the Head, ibid.

SCHOLIA by W. Salmon, the Author of this Work.

• Sect. 28. Of the principal kinds of Diseases, 37.
• Sect. 29. Of the Head-ach, its name, definition, and kinds, 39.
• Sect. 30. The Pathology of the first sort of Headach, beforenamed, and first of the cause thereof, ib.
• Sect. 31. The Prognosticks of a Cephalalgia, 41.
• Sect. 33. The Therapia or method of Cure: and first of a Headach proceeding from a simple in-temperature of heat and dryness, 42.
• Sect. 33. A Headach proceeding from heat and moi∣sture, 43.
• Sect. 34. The cure of the Headach from cold and dry∣ness, ib.
• Sect. 35. The Cure of the Headach proceeding from cold and moisture, 44.
• Sect. 36. The cure of the Headach from Vapours a∣scending up into the Brain, 50.
• Sect. 37. The cure of the Headach arising from a Feaver, ibid.
• Sect. 38. The cure of the Headach arising from the French Pox, 51.
• Sect. 39. The cure of the Headach proceeding from a hurt of the Cranium, or the Menings of the Brain, 54.
• Sect. 40. The Pathology of the second kind of Heach∣ach, called old or inveterate, and first of the signs and causes, 55.
• Sect. 41. The Prognosticks of a Cephalaea, or old Head∣ach, 56.
• Sect. 42. The cure of a Cephalaea or old Headach, in a cold and dry Constitution of Body; Or, ari∣sing from Melancholy, 57.
• Sect. 43. The cure of a Cephalaea or old Headach in a cold and moist Constitution, ib.
• Sect. 44. The Pathology of the Megrim, and first of the Notation thereof, 61.
• Sect. 45. The signs of the Megrim, 62.
• Sect. 46. The causes of the Megrim, ibid.
• Sect. 47. The Prognosticks or Judgments of a Megrim, ibid.
• Sect. 48. The Therapia, or method of Cure, ibid.