A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
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A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
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Smith, John, doctor in Physic.
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London :: Printed by J. Streater, for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1656.
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"A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93373.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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SPITTING often, is of that spittle which is bred in the first concoction, and in the third, in the Brain and which falls upon the Tonsils, it is concocted and voided by the Mouth: sometimes it is sharp, sometimes white, &c.
The cause is fleam from the Brain or stomach, chiefly falling in the morning: it comes not alwaies from cold, but oft times in diseases from burning heat; It cometh also, especially that which is made after meat, from affection of the Hypochondres, & the Scurvy; It oft times preserveth from diseases.
It is cured, if the cause be taken away
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as the Catarrh, by Dryers and Evacua∣ters.
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