Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths ... To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / [Sir John Floyer].

  • Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734
Date:
1725
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Credit: Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths ... To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / [Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mends emollient Glyfters, and Baths of E- mollients ; in Dyfenteries, Whey or Milk in which Hot Stones or Iron is quenched ; in Leproiies, Aqua Caleis mixed with Milk or Whey ; for the Strangury, warm ‘Baths, le¬ nitive Burges, cool Diuretics ; for the Gout, Coolers, a Glyfter, Purges, Whey, Affes- Milk ; for the Sciatica, lenitive Purges, and warm Baths, AiTes-Milk, a flrong Purge. To help Expectoration, he commends Qxy- mel ; for Tains of the Hip and Back, Heed¬ ing in Vena Poplitis or Malleoli Externa ; the Splenetics zvbo are pituitous, require hbt Medicines, but the biliofe cool ones ; in Ikon, Glyfters and warm Baths ; cold Water in a Cauftis; Vomits help Expectoration when fweet Taltes and Oils cannot: Water Drink¬ ing and thin Diet hinder Impofthumations : Warm Baths agree letter in Pleurifies than in the Phrenitis ; Bleeding cures the Ver¬ tigo, if done in the Neck, the Forehead, or Note ; in the Lethargy ufe a Vomit; in the Gutta Serena, on the Syneiput, a Trepan to let out the Water ; in the Optlxalmy Heed, purge, cup, Water-drinking,andwarmBaths: A Vomit for a Diarrhaea, and it alfo takes away Coftivenefs. We mufi not purge firongly the lienofe, the hoarfe dry Coughs, AJlhmatics, leterics, in the Strangury, in Hsemqrrhagies, and weak Digeftion,^r in Beginning c/*In¬ flammations : Thefe Collections may le ufe- h fd