Janus, Volume 4Janus, 1899 - Medicine "Revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la médecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique." (varies). |
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Page 673 - Abraham engendra Isaac. Isaac engendra Jacob. Jacob engendra Juda et ses frères.
Page 413 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 564 - If the voice be free, and breathing easie, especially if the Pox be red, white, distinct, soft, few, round, sharp top'd, only without and not in the inward parts; if there be large bleeding at the nose. These signs are hopeful. 29. But such signs are doubtful, when they difficultly appear, when they sink in again, when they are black, blewish, green, hard, all in one, if the Feaver abate not with their breaking forth...
Page 413 - You know how thoroughly my method [of curing fevers] is approved of by an intimate and common friend of ours, and one who has closely and exhaustively examined the subject— I mean Mr. John Locke, a man whom, in the acuteness of his intellect, in the steadiness of his judgment, and in the simplicity, that is, in the excellence, of his manners, I confidently declare to have amongst the men of our own time few equals and no superior.
Page 562 - Blood, laying down the impurities in the Fleshy parts which kindly effected the Feaverish tumult is calmed. 4. The second Separation from the Flesh to the Skin, or Superficies is done through the rest of the time of the disease. 5. There are several Errors in ordering these sick ones in both these Operations of Nature which prove very dangerous and commonly deadly either by overmuch hastening Nature beyond its own pace, or in hindering of it from its own vigorous operation. 6. The Separation by Ebullition...
Page 559 - There is another reason which moves my thought and desires this way, namely that our young students in Physick may be trained up better then they yet bee, who have onely theoreticall knowledge, and are forced to fall to practise before ever they saw an Anatomy made, or duely trained up in making experiments, for we never had but one Anatomy in the countrey, which Mr. Giles Firman [Firmin] now in England, did make and read upon very well, but no more of that now.
Page 564 - ... medicines to drive out, nor be too strict with the sick; for by how much the more gently the Pustules do grow, by so much the fuller and perfecter will the Separation be. 21. On the fourth day a gentle Cordial may help once given. 22. From that time a small draught of warm milk (not hot) a little dy'd with Saffron may be given morning and evening till the Pustules are come to their due greatness and ripeness.
Page 563 - Ebullition (or Feaverish boyling) for this troubles the driving out, or brings back the separated parts into the blood, or the Fleshy parts overheated are disabled from a right suppuration or lastly the temper of the blood and tone of the Flesh is so perverted that it cannot overcome and digest the matter driven out. 12. Yet on the other hand the breaking out must not be hindred, by exposing the sick unto the cold. The degree of heat must be such as is natural agrees with the temper of the fleshy...
Page 407 - All goes well in regard to that poor fellow whose eyes are diseased. I had applied a dressing covering his face. Yesterday, towards evening, undoing the bandage which held it (in place), I removed the dressing. There was pus upon the dressing the size of the tip of the little finger. If any of thy gods has put his hand to the matter, that (god) must surely have given express commands.3 All is well.
Page 563 - But if the boiling of the blood be weak and dull that there is cause to fear it is not able to work a Separation, as it's wont to be in such as have been let blood, or are fat, or Flegmatick, or brought low by some other sickness or labour of the (Gonorrhea) running of the Reins, or some other Evacuation: In such Cases, Cordials must drive them out, or they must dy. 10. In time of driving out the Pocks from the Flesh, here care must be had that the Pustules keep...