The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.

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The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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"The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a96634.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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THE FIRST INDEX or TABLE, WHEREIN IS Alphabetically digested the principal matters contained in the Treatises of Fermentation and Feavers.

A.
  • ...AGues,
    • Of Agues, Page 68.
    • The reason of the Ague fits, 69, 70, 71.
    • The signs of the Disease, 72.
    • Of the Cure of the Ague, 74.
    • Of the double Tertian or Quartan, 75
    • Of a Tertian Ague or Feaver, 77
    • Some symptoms of the Disease, 78
    • Its Cure, 79, 80
    • Histories of the Disease, 81, 82
    • Of Quotidian Agues, 82
    • Their Cure, 83
    • Of a Quartan Ague, 84
    • Causes of it, 84
    • Why it usually begins in Autumn, 85
    • Its Cure, 86
  • Aurum fulminans, What it is, 40.
B.
  • Beer, How made by Fermentation, 20
  • ...Blood,
    • The Blood Anatomiz'd, 57, 58
    • Compared with Wines, 61
    • The motions and heats of the Blood, 64
    • The difference of the Fermentation of Wine and the Blood, 64
    • The difference of the Blood growing hot in Fea∣vers, 90
    • Of the inkindling of the Blood in a burning Feaver, 109
    • How the Blood is infected by Poysons, 121
    • and its several mutations thereby, ibid.
    • Of the great heat of the Blood in malignant Feavers, 131
    • Of Blood-letting in the Small-pox, 146
    • Blood Menstruous, see Menstruous Blood.
  • Bread, How made by Fermentation, 20
  • Buboes, In the Plague, 126, 127
C.
  • Carbuncles, Of Carbuncles in the Plague, 126 127
  • Catarrhal, Epidemical Feavers, see Feavers,
  • Causon, Or Burning Feavers, 109
  • ...Cautions,
    • Concerning putrid Feavers, 110, 111
    • Concerning the Plague, 128
  • Chrystilisation, Of Salts, how made, 49
  • Chyle, The Concoction of the Chyle in the Ven∣tricle is made by Fermentation, 14
  • Coagulation, What it is, 49
  • ...Congelation,
    • What it is, 49
    • A second manner of Congelation, 51
    • Of artificial Congelation, ibid.
  • ...Crisis,
    • Of a continual Feaver, 91
    • Of a putrid Feavor, 96
  • ...Cure,
    • Of Agues, 74, 79, 80, 83, 86.
    • Of putrid Feavers of every kind, 110
    • Of the Plague, 128
    • Of Pestilential Feavers, 133, 134
    • The Cure of the Small-pox, 143, 144, 145
    • Of the Milkey feaver, 151
    • Of the Malignant feaver of lying in Women, 154 155
    • Of the Symptomatic feaver of Women in Child-bed, 157
    • Of Epidemical feavers, 167, 168, 171, 176, 177, 178.
  • Cyder, How made by Fermentation, 24
D.
  • Death, And Putrefaction of Bodies, 26
  • Diarrhea, Of a Diarrhea in Feavers, 14
  • ...Dysenterie,
    • Of a Dysenterie in Feavors, 104
    • Of a Dysenterie in Child-bed Women, 157
E.
  • Earth, Of the Chymists, what it is 5
  • Ephemera, Or a Feaver of a days continuance, 91
  • Epidemical, Feavers, see Feavers,
  • Essential, Putrid Synochus, what it is, 109
F.
  • ...Feavers,
    • Of Feavers in general, 57
    • Of Intermitting Feavers or Agues, see Agues, 68
    • Of continual Feavers, 89
    • What causes continual Feavers, 89
    • The several kinds of continual Feavers, 91
    • Of the Feaver for a day, ibid.
    • The cause of it, and of its Crisis, ibid.
    • An History of such a Feaver, 92

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  • ...
    • Of a putrid Feaver, 93
    • Four seasons to be observed in it, 94
    • The causes of it, ibid.
    • A Prognostication of the Disease, 97
    • Of the Crisis of a putrid Feaver, ibid.
    • The symptoms and signs of putrid Feavers, 99, 100
    • Of the putrid Synochus or continual Feaver, 107
    • Of the symptomatic putrid Feaver, ibid.
    • Of the slow Feaver, 108
    • Of the symptomatical Feaver, from an Ʋlcer, or a Consumption of the Lungs, ibid.
    • Of an Essential putrid Synochus, 109
    • Of the Causon or Burning feaver, ibid.
    • The Cures of putrid Feavers of every kind, 110
    • Histories of several putrid Feavers, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118.
    • Of a Pestilential or Malignant Feaver in general, 119
    • Of a malignant Feaver in specie, 131
    • How it differs from the Pestilence, ibid.
    • A description of malignant Feavers, ibid.
    • A difference of them, 133
    • Causes of them, ibid.
    • The Cure of them, 133, 134
    • Of Feavers Epidemical of another sort, 134
    • An History of a Pestilential Feaver, 134, 135
    • An History of a Malignant Feaver, 136, 137
    • Of the Feavers of Child-bearing Women, 147
    • Of the Milkey Feaver, 150
    • The causes of it, 151
    • Its Cure, ibid.
    • Of a putrid Feaver in Women lying In, 151
    • A figure of the Disease, 152, 153
    • The causes of it, ibid.
    • Its Cure, 154, 155
    • Of Symptomatic Feavers of Women in Childbed, 156
    • The general reason of them, ibid.
    • The Cure of them, 157
    • Histories of acute Feavers in Women lying In, 158, 159, 160, 161.
    • Epidemical Feavers, 163
    • A description of an Epidemical Feaver in the year 1657. ibid.
    • The causes of it, 164
    • The differenee of it from other Feavers, 166
    • A Prognostication of it, ibid.
    • Of the Cure of it, 167
    • A description of a Catarrhal Epidemical Feaver in the year 1658 169
    • The causes of it, 170
    • The symptoms of it, and the cure of it, 171
    • A description of an Epidemical Feaver arising in the Autumn of the year 1658 171
    • The nature and formal reason of it, 174
    • A Prognostication of it, 175
    • The Cure of it, 176, 177, 178
  • ...Fermentation,
    • What it is, Page 1
    • What in Minerals, 10
    • What it is in Vegitables, 11
    • Of Fermentation in Animals, 13
    • Instances to illustrate the doctrine of Fermentation, 14
    • Of the Ferment in the Ventricle, 14
    • Of Fermentation in Artificial things, 17
    • What Bodies are fit for Fermentation, ibid.
    • What promotes Fermentation, ibid.
    • The end and effect of Fermentation, 18, 19.
    • Of Fermentation that tends to perfection, 19
    • Of Fermentation that tends to the dissolution of Bodies, 26, 30.
    • Of Fermentation in the precipitation of Bodies, 45
    • Of Fermentation in Coagulation and Congelation, 49
    • Of Fermentation of the Blood in Feavers, 57
  • Fire, What it is, and its nature, 36
  • Flux, Of the Flux in Feavers, 104
G.
  • Glass, See Vitrification,
  • Gunpowder, The nature of it, and how made, 41
H.
  • Habit, Of the Body in putrid Feavers, 100
  • Head, Pained in Feavers, 103
  • ...Heart,
    • Pained in Feavers, 104
    • Life proceeds first from the heart, 13
  • Heat, What it is, 38
  • ...Histories,
    • Of Agues, 81, 82
    • Of an Ephemera or Feaver for a day, 92
    • Of putrid Feavers, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118.
    • Of the Plague, 130, 131.
    • Of a Pestilent Feaver, 134, 135.
    • Of another Epidemical Pestilent Feaver, 136, 137.
    • Of the Small-pox, 145, 146.
    • Of acute Feavers of Women lying In, 158, 159, 160, 161.
    • Of several Epidemical Feavers, from 163 to 171
  • Hysterical, Fits, why Women more subject to them than Men, 152.
I.
  • Indications, Concerning putrid Feavers, 110
  • ...Inflamation
    • Of the Lungs, an effect of the putrid Synochus, 107
    • Inflamations in the Plague, 127
  • ...Intentions,
    • For the Cure of a Tertian Ague, 80
    • For curing the Ephemera, 92
    • Intentions for the cure of every sort of putrid Fea∣vers, 110
    • For the curing Epidemical Feavers, 176, 177, 178.
  • Judgment, Or Prognosticks of the event of a pu∣trid Feaver, 197

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L.
  • Life First proceeds from the fermenting of the spirit in the heart, 13
  • Light, What it is, and how made, 39
  • Lochia, What they are, and their use, 148
M.
  • ...Measles,
    • Of the Measles, 144
    • What they are, ibid.
  • Malignant, Feavers, see Feavers,
  • Mault, How made by Fermentation, 21
  • ...Menstrua,
    • The two chief for the dissolution of bodies, fire and water, 30
    • Menstruas of several sorts, 32, 33.
    • Menstruas for Gold and Silver, 34
  • Menstruous Blood, its use, and why it flows not in Women with Child, 147
  • Meteors, What they be, 10
  • Milk In the Breasts, how made, 147, 148.
  • Minerals, How they ferment, 10
  • Moldiness, Whence it is made, 28
  • Mustiness, Whence it comes, 29
N.
  • Nitre, What it is, 40
O.
  • Opinions, Of Philosophers, concerning the prin∣ciples of things, 2
P.
  • Peruvean Bark, used to cure Agues, 86
  • Pest, See Plague,
  • Pestilential Feaver, see Feavers,
  • Plants, How they germinate, 12
  • Plurisie, An effect of the putrid Synochus, 107
  • ...Plague,
    • Its nature, 122
    • Whence its rise, 123
    • Of its propagation by Contagion, 124
    • Its description, 125
    • Of its signs and symptoms, 126
    • Its Prognosticks, 127, 128.
    • Its Cure, 128, 129, 130.
    • History of it, 131
  • Pox, See Small-pox.
  • ...Powder,
    • Of the Jesuites a peruvean Bark, and its nature, 86, 87.
    • How it operates, 87, 88.
  • ...Poysons,
    • How they distemper the body, 119
    • How they work on the Animal spirits and nervous liquor, 120
    • Their various properties, ibid.
  • Precipitation, What it is, and how made, 45
  • ...Principles,
    • Of natural things, 1
    • What he means by principles, 3
    • The principles of the Chymists, ibid.
  • ...Prognostications,
    • In the Plague, 127, 128.
    • In the Small-pox, 142
    • Prognostications of Epidemical Diseases, 166, 175.
    • Prognostications from the Pulse, 105, 106.
    • From Ʋrins, 107
  • ...Pulse,
    • To be considered in a putrid Feaver, 105
    • Prognostications from it, 105, 106.
  • Purple Spots in the Plague, 127
  • Putrefaction, How made, 26
  • Putrid Feaver, its description, 93
S.
  • ...Salt,
    • A principle of the Chymists, what it is, 5
    • Salt in the Blood, 60
  • Salt-nitre, What it is, 40
  • Salts, How Chrystallised, and the reason of the ope∣ration, 49, 50.
  • ...Signes,
    • Or symptoms of life and death in a putrid Feaver, 98
    • Signs and symptoms of the Plague, 126
    • Signs of a Pestilential or Malignant Feaver, 133
    • Signs of the Small-pox, 141
  • ...Small-pox,
    • The causes of them, 139, 140.
    • Signs and symptoms of the Small-pox, 141
    • Prognostications of the disease, 142
    • Its Cure, 143, 144, 145.
    • Histories of it, 145, 146
    • Indications of the Small-pox in Child-bed Wo∣men, 157
  • ...Spirits,
    • Of the Chymists, what they are, 3
    • Spirits in the Brain, wrought by Fermentation, 16
  • Spirits of the Blood, 59
  • Spots In the Plague, 127
  • Squinancy, An effect of the putrid Synochus, 107
  • ...Sulphur,
    • A Chymical principle, what it is, 4
    • Of common Sulphur, 40
    • Sulphur in the Blood, 59
  • Swooning, In Feavers, 103
  • Symptomatick Feavers, what they are, 107, 108.
  • ...Symptoms
    • And signs chiefly to be noted in a pu∣trid Feaver, 99
    • Symptoms to be observed in a putrid Synochus, 100
  • ...Synochus
    • Putrid, its chief symptoms, 100
    • Its kinds and cure, 107
T.
  • Tongue, Why covered with a white crustiness in Feavers, 102
V.
  • Vitrification, Of Vitrification, or the making of Glass, 50
  • Vomiting, Of Vomiting in Feavers, 106

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  • ...Urines,
    • Of Ʋrines in Feavers, 106
    • Prognosticks from Ʋrines in Feavers, 107
W.
  • Water, A principle of the Chymists, what it is, 6
  • Wind, The North-wind apt to produce Catarrhs, 169
  • Wines, How made by Fermentation, 22
  • ...Womb,
    • Of the falling down of the Womb in Wo∣men lying In, 149
    • Of the distempers of the Womb at that time, ibid.
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