[Page] [Page] THE ORACLE FOR THE SICK.

TO THE READER HEALTH.

IF to have opposed a sweeping Plague could ever establish a Physician's Gloyr; whether you consider the Dangers he res­cued others from, or those he run him­self into, or yet his Skill that enabled him for it; certainly for Ʋs to resist the Plague of an Empirical Infection, cannot now be our Dishonour. For, take it from Ʋs, every Disease undertaken by a Quack is altogether as dangerous as the Plague. When there­fore People do so generally die with the To­kens of their Folly upon them, who can blame Ʋs for exempting the living from this Mor­tality? Yet in doing this We foresee, that Empiricism, like Infection, will falsely be imputed to Ʋs; he that Cures either, being at one time or other avoided as sick of the [Page] same Disease. However, we hope your Judg­ments, better informed by the good effect▪ of our Art, would clear us of that Scandal, were not our Qualifications sufficient to rub the Pitch off our own Fingers.

All of the Honourable, the Colledge of Phi­sicians in London, whereof we are Members, have, to a Man of them, been affected with the dying Groans of Persons Murdered by Intruders into Physick. These formerly ap­peared only now and then, like the event of some petty Rencontre; but now they are heard so mournful and so numerous, that Quacking looks as if it were attended with the effects of a pitch'd Battel. Not a Week passes but some of us are called to these dole­ful Objects; whom we generally find to have been treated much in the manner following, viz. Ʋpon our enquiry into the case it ap­pears, the Sick was seized with a Fever, whose symptoms as to us related, did portend no danger; We know a Vomit would have been proper, the Intruder gave a Perl Cor­dial; The Party ought to have been Bled, the Perl Cordial was repeated; some noble Diaphoretick or Febrifuge should have been administred, the Perl Cordial was re­peated; All this while a low Diet should have been kept, but instead thereof Gelly-broths [Page] were intruded: Thus through omission and commission the symptoms of a dying Man ap­pear, then come in Alkermes and a Blister; and a little before the Passing-Bell tolls in come We, to behold People Murdered, and our own Prosession thus abused.

Imagine you, what Impression these Bar­barous Cruelties must make upon such a Body of Men, whose Charity, we do inform you, bears its proportion to that Learning, which is admired abroad, and is likewise acknow­ledged here at home by the most Malicious of our Enemies. How do you think, when the Laws are not silent, can we be so, against such bare-fac'd Offenders? Justly has the College animadverted on several Empiricks in getting the Statutes of the Realm executed upon them: And wisely has the whole Body thereof considered of prudential Methods to­wards the obtaining the end and intent of the Law; viz. the suppression of Empirical Man-slayers. Sundry methods have former­ly been under their Debate; the result where­of was, that some Ʋndertaking like this of Ours would prove the most effectual. Con­vinced therefore by such a general Opinion, and moreover encouraged hereto by several of the Society, beside the unanimous Resolution of Ʋs five on the Point; We, for the Pub­lick [Page] Good, and, we hope, not to the Discre­dit of our Profession, do proceed in the Me­thod following, viz.

1. At the Angel and Crown in Kingstreet London, We have a Repository, furnished with the most noble and efficacious Medi­cines; faithfully prepared with our own hands.

2. Every day in the Week, from seven in the Morning till eight at night; one or other of Us will constantly attend at the Repository, there to give his Advice, and to dispense the Medicines with his own Hand; or else to go himself or send ano­ther of Us, where a Visit is required.

3. Every Munday and Thursday in the Week, from two till six in the Afternoon, We will all of Us attend at the Reposito­ry, there to advise and consult upon such Cases, as shall then be proposed to Us, and accordingly to dispense the Medi­cines; or to depute some of the Consulta­tion to visit, when required.

4. Either at the Repository, or at our several respective Dwellings, We are rea­dy to give to the Poor our Advice gratis, and to supply them with Medicines at low rates.

[Page] And, that it never may be said, We talk as much like Impertinents, as they that oppose the giving of our own Physick, let every thinking Person well consider the weight of what we have to say in favour of these our Proposals. We therefore acquaint you, that the Laws have impowered Physicians in Eng­land to give as well as prescribe Physick. But to the end, Reason, and not bare Autho­rity may prevail, believe it altogether as rea­sonable, as it is lawful for us so to do. For every one that prepares a Medicine according to the Dispensatory, unless he will be so insipid as to condemn what himself does, must own that our College, who made that Dispensa­tory, is able to prepare the things described in it; Or, that He is guided by the Directi­ons of Persons, who themselves know not how to perform, what they direct others to do: Which can hardly be acknowledged by a Man, who otherwise perhaps thinks better of him­self than of the Authors of the Dispensatory. Moreover, if in less knowing Times the best Physicians Prescribed and Dispensed their own Medicines with their own hands (as Ga­len with his own hands prepared the great Treacle for several of the Emperors of Rome, and gave most of his own Physick) what Weakness is it now to think, in a Practico­philosophical [Page] Age, wherein Learned Men of all Professions do so generally addict them­selves to the search of Nature, that Physici­ans alone should neglect their Province, and not know the preparation of their own Medi­cines, which comprehends a great share of Natural Inquiries? Among Men not profes­sed Physicians, the Honourable, and Learned Mr. Boyl is Master of many noble Prepara­tions in Medicine. In reference to Physici­ans, who can be so injurious to the Memory of our Harvey, as to say, that He who found out the Circulation of the Blood, and knew the Vital Process from the first vibration of the salient Point in the Embryo, till it drew, nay expired its vital Air, who dares say, He knew not the Process of a Dispensa­tory Preparation? With what curious Medi­caments has our Willis enriched Pharmacy, who, to our knowledge, put his own hand to the Work? Nor have Physicians abroad, such as Sylvius, Ettmuller, Wedelius and others, been sparing of their own pains in making most curious Remedies. And do not think, that all Men of Abilities in Pharmacy are dead out of our College; but to avoid pal­pable Flattery in reciting of living Names, let our Adversaries name that one Man of the College, who has not solid skill in Pharma­cy. [Page] If they cannot name him, let all Men, who value their Health, judge between Them and Ʋs. Our College has Published a Dis­pensatory, containing a complete preparati­on of Medicines; but not one syllable of what any one of these Medicines is good for, the Application of all (to prevent mistakes) being reserved to their Breasts, who invent­ed or approved them. Yet several of our bare Medicine-makers have presumed to give these preparations to the sick improperly, they not knowing the true Use of them; whereby many have been brought to untimely Ends. Nor is this all, they, under pretext of their Calling, too often vary our Prescripts, or by slandering them, prevent their being taken. Whose hands then, think ye, should we trust but our own, in preparing our Remedies, if we either value your Lives or our own Re­putation? But more than all this, the most effectual Remedies depend upon so long and such curious Processes, that only read men, and they that know the intricacies of Nature, can prepare them aright: To Adulterate them, 'tis true, is easie; and to buy them of such as fell cheaper than they prepare carefully, is ob­vious; but if you will either buy them true, or use them right, you must deal with Men of Art and not of Trade only.

[Page] And of what moment the Advice of a Phy­sician in taking of Medicines is, were not People too little sensible, We needed be less sol­licitous in making them more. But, as We said, Compounders not knowing the use or nature of Medicines; because they can go no farther than the Dispensatory, which only shews the making of them, We do assure you, that he runs a great hazard of his Life, who in his Sickness takes any Medicine without the Ad­vice of a Physician. For were you but as through­ly convinced as We do certainly know, that an improper Diet does as surely kill as any Poison could, you would hardly adventure upon Medicines, which produce more violent effects upon our bodies than food can, without being assured by men of skill, that such Medicines are proper for you.

Knowing therefore the necessity of taking advice with all Medicines, and finding in our Practice how difficult some Cases are; We have provided not only, that one Physician shall always be attending; but that many may assist one another in advising upon difficult Cases. So that all the day long you can­not fail of a Physician at our Repository; nor every Monday and Thursday in the after­noon of a Consultation of several. Where we hope, that as all persons of Ingenuity under­stand [Page] a Physician's Merit, so all shall receive mutual treatment from Ʋs; nor shall the great Objection of the chargeableness of Phy­sicians hold against Ʋs, inasmuch as we shall endanger no Mans Estate by the price of his Health, nor will we demand any thing for our Advice of the Indigent.

Thus, you see, the Good of all, and the Credit of our Profession is our Meaning, which you have farther explained to you in the ensuing Book. In it are contained all things that a Physician can well ask his Pati­ent: and tho' several things may seem super­fluous and liable to Cavil; yet to the Judici­ous, and to Men of Art, there will appear nothing such: For better it is, that many Questions more than need should be put, than that any one less should be forgotten. For instance; without the knowledge of a Pati­ent's Constitution no Advice can safely be gi­ven; without the knowledge of the Complexi­on or Colour, Stature and other Accidents, the Constitution cannot be known; and with­out all the Questions mentioned in the begin­ning of the Book, no man can be informed herein as he ought. By the convenience of this Book People wholly strangers to Us may have our advice at a distance, as if present: And such as had rather we should know the [Page] Disease than the Patient that is troubled with it, have hereby the opportunity of receiving Advice, he to whom that Advice is given, remaining altogether to Ʋs unknown. Where­fore all Cavil at our plain Expression in Male and Female cases is vain; since to hear some necessary questions asked, would surely offend a modest Ear, which to read will not raise the least emotion of a Blush: So that no per­son's Modesty (who has this Book) need be put to the torture, in relating what some may think is here too boldly expressed; yet in many cases of absolute necessity by Physicians to be known. But peruse the advantages of this Book.

And thus, without Necromantick Art we can raise the Idea of an absent Patient; when raised, without the inspiration of any Python We can shrewdly divine what his Fate will be; and so, if either Knowledge of Secrets, or Fore-knowledge of what is to come, were ever counted Oraculous, Delos it self did never own a much surer Oracle.

For indeed We have not only studied in the best Ʋniversities of Europe; but We have put these our Studies into practice for many years in other Metropolitan Cities of this part of the World, where several of us have been Collegiate Physicians, as well as in [Page] this great City, where we now reside all as such. Being therefore skilled in several Euro­pean Languages beside the Ʋniversal, Foreign­ers at our Consultation may discourse with Ʋs in their own Tongues, and may be as well understood as if they were in their own Coun­tries; at least (if they are learned) they may freely talk with us in Latin. And all persons, whether English or Strangers may en­joy the benefit of the united Counsel and Ex­perience of Ʋs all.

When We are not at the Repository, We may be met with, or heard of at our respective Dwellings,

  • John Greenvelt in Throgmorton Street, next door but one to Broad-street.
  • Richard Browne in Winchester street.
  • Christopher Crelle at the lower end of Fryday-Street.
  • John Peche in Chequer yard near Dowgate.
  • Phil. Guide in Sa­lisbury Court in Fleetstreet.

THE ORACLE FOR THE SICK.

The Advantages of this Book.

§. I. SUCH sick Persons as have not the Convenience, or are not in a Capacity of calling in Physicians; by reason they ei­ther live at too great a distance, or are in no condition to defray that Physicians charges upon a journey, whom they make choice of above others, or that they ei­ther will not or cannot go to him them­selves, will here find these inconveniences removed. For here they have every Re­mark [Page 2] and Question, which Physicians use to propound to their Patients, from whence they take their Indications, and more than will serve their turn.

§. II. By this mean many poor sick People will not henceforth be destitute of Advice; as they are in the Countrey, and in places remote from great Towns: A thing which redounds to the great Detri­ment of several. For that they are ne­cessitated to commit their Case to Chi­rurgeons, Apothecaries, Barbars, and good Women dwelling in Villages, who are not always sufficiently instructed how to de­scribe a sickness aright nor it's accidents. Through which ill management, the fick frequently dye of Diseases, in the begin­ning slight and curable, had they but been well treated. And, which is most deplo­rable, the sick are little sollicitous either in setting their House in order, or about their Estate of a higher consequence, be­cause they are not in the least apprehen­sive of any danger they are in. Which fa­tal Accidents may henceforth in a great measure be avoided: Forasmuch as one shall meet with none so ignorant, provi­ded they can but read, who may not be capable of giving sufficient instructions to [Page 3] Us concerning the Estate of the absent Pa­tient, and concerning his Sickness, by the sole use of this Book.

§. III. Those same sick Persons, who in the Countrey and places remote are under Chirurgeons and Apothecaries hands, ca­pable of stating their Case, and thereby of consulting Physicians about their Di­seases, will be much better attended, whilst not any one Circumstance requisite to the entire and perfect knowledge of their Disease, is forgot: It being notori­ous, that most of the great faults, which are committed in the management of the Sick, procede from this, that their Disea­ses are not well known, one being taken for another. And seeing that Physick is not an Art of Divination, as the igno­rant Vulgar perswade themselves, too much Circumspection cannot be used in stating the Case aright to Physicians. And this will be much better done, when they that send, have their instructions in Print, the reading whereof will lead them, as by the hand, to the observing all things worth consideration, which might otherwise easily slip their Memory. So that those, who other­wise would have been negligent in their Relation, in order to have Advice from [Page 4] Physicians, cannot now be so any longer: for as much as they are obliged to note, or make mention of each particular Head in the Book.

§. IV. And even Physicians themselves, of whom Advice is taken, being absent, must of necessity by this Method be more exact in their knowledge and judgment of Diseases, and in prescribing their Reme­dies. For they, as they are obliged, re­turning their Advice with this Book, wherein the sick Party and the Disease are drawn to the Life, and described, the defects of their Prescriptions, if any there are, will be far more evident. As faults in Limning are best discovered, when the Piece and the Original are both in view, or when the Features of the absent Party are well known to us. Such will be the state of the sick delineated by this Inven­tion, by means whereof Persons skilled in the Art of Physick may judge of the Abilities of that Physician, who gave his Advice: Which can never be done in the way Men practise prescribing Piece­meal, wherein a Man can only discern whether the Prescript be well dosed, and possibly whether it came from a Physician experienced in the Practice of his Art; [Page 5] but not whether it be prescribed per­tinently, nor whether it be proper for the Patient and the Disease, which is the prin­cipal thing. So that every Physician, con­sidering what it will conduce to his Ho­nour, though now perhaps he is condu­cted by Conscience alone, will moreover be concerned in reference to his Reputa­tion: Which will serve for a double Incite­ment to encourage, and a double Obli­gation to bind him firm to his utmost En­deavour.

§. V. Physicians, that have Persons of Quality under their hand, and such as of whom it will be of import to remark from time to time, yea several times a day, the state of their Sickness, will here also find a notable ease to their Memory, and a great Abridgment. For having as many Books as they will mark at divers times, they can set down in each of these Books the then present State of their Pati­ent, after the manner of Astronomers, who set down from time to time the State of the Heavens upon Paper; which State would o­therwise slip out of their mind, and hin­der the judgment that they would make: As on the contrary these different States of their patient will facilitate the conse­quences, [Page 6] which they will draw from comparing them; so as to gather the Crises and the other Movements of Nature, which they have to do withal.

§. VI. There are several dishonourable Diseases, which hinder the Sick from disco­vering themselves, and they by this Bashful­ness render themselves incurable: Where­as by this Book any one may conceal his or her Name, which contributes nothing to the cure of Diseases, and may receive good and salutary Advice.

§. VII. And whereas Seeing is the quickest and most comprehensive of all the Senses, here one will at once have in Sight a multitude of Questions, which it would be tedious to hear asked and answered: And one may fix on what things are consi­derable, passing by such things as to the Party seem worthy of little or no consi­deration.

Now you have seen some of the ad­vantages of this Book; the Use of it will discover to you the rest.

§. VIII. We need not here trouble our selves at all to answer those that take upon them to decry the Inventions of others, and say that a man cannot comprehend in one Book an infinite number of Cir­cumstances, [Page 7] a diverse Combination where­of varies the Case; since the Letters of an Alphabet alone are sufficient to describe infinite Volumes. And when Physicians, Chirurgeons, and Apothecaries, and in their absence other Persons who shall send or come to us or others to ask Advice concerning a Distemper, do find matters extraordinary in it, nothing will hinder, but they may add them; since Treatises of Nature do admit Discourses of Monsters.

§. IX. Little also can they hurt us, who tell us, this Invention is not our own. May they not as well reproach Galen, who took his Doctrin from Hippocrates, and he from others? It being no slight matter to put things in Order, and to introduce a new Use of them. But leaving Vain-glory to others, we shall reckon it sufficient, that several Persons do receive benefit, without regard whence it comes. And possibly, even they that would have some­thing of Novelty, might be the first in quarrelling upon that very account.

§. X. Others may find the Reading of this Work troublesome and disagreea­ble, because they may judge it, as it is, void altogether of Embellishment, and without Affectation, when they perhaps [Page 8] may be desirous of florid Language. Be­cause they know not, that height of Ex­pression is no more proper for instruct­ing, than Flowers are for nourishment; and since we intend the profit of all Man­kind indifferently, which is composed, for the greater share, of people who have not leisure for these things, our manner of Dis­course must be accommodated to their Ca­pacitie's, which will not prove useless to the Intelligent, as the more exalted Terms of our Art would be to the less knowing.

§. XI. Some will also think it strange, that we make an Enumeration so exact of things, from which we may gather Indi­cations; possibly, because they behave themselves so little after this manner in their Consultations. But let such Men know this, that they cannot with too much Circumspection treat the Almightie's Master-piece: Moreover, the things which super-abound, being not at all bad, such as have a mind to make use of this Book may leave what they will, and mark no­thing but what they shall find pertinent to their Design.

§. XII. They that reproach us, will not be wanting also to render us odious to Phyficians of other places, as if we su­spected [Page 9] them of ignorance, and as if they knew not how to state a Case, when it is necessary to take fome sound Advice. But we have too good an Opinion, yea better than those that envy us, of the Ca­pacity of all Doctors in Physick, who have obtained their Degrees in famous Universities, too good certainly ever to call it in question. We honour them, and are ready to consult with them; so far are we from the least intention of harm to them. And one may truly say of this work, that as it will serve as an Ariadne's Clew, to guide by the hand the meaner sort, who may be destitute of Physicians, and other Persons, capable to state their Case; so it will serve as a Medium to the more knowing Physicians, and who as such are ordinarily fullest of employ­ment, to save their time, which to them is very precious. Moreover, they are not only at liberty by this Invention to state several Cases, for one; but they may ease themselves of this trouble by the meanest of their Servants, that can read; nay, by the Patients themselves. Furthermore, they that are experienced know, that Physick is an Art of Society, the Practice whereof is in this found different [Page 10] from the Law, in that a Lawyer who pleads well, is never a whit the less e­steemed, though he lose his Cause. But the ignorant Vulgar judge rashly of a Physician by the event of the Disease; from whose Calumny he cannot better protect himself than by Consultation, which Men cannot sometimes have with the Physicians of the place, because there is not a sufficient number, and no good un­derstanding among those there are, or be­cause they are too much in the Patients favour, and will not depart from their former Advice, or out of respect they will not gain-say one another. There is not any way more advantageous to maintain the Reputation of skillful Phy­sicians, and of such as omit nothing in the cure of a Disease, albeit the Success proves not always correspondent to their Care, than to justifie their Proceedings by other Persons disinteressed and capa­ble of judging: To which this Book will give more assistence than any hitherto.

§. XIII. And thus will this Work hence­forth be a Touch-stone to distinguish Physicians from Pretenders; These fear­ing nothing more than the use of this Book and the Method it contains: Be­cause [Page 11] one may easily by this mean know the faults, which they have committed in their management of Diseases, and also may judge whether they have known them well; whereas such as are expert in their Profession desire no better, than to make any one a Witness of their Actions.

[Page 12] AND because in examining things, which a Physician ought to know, in order to his understanding a Disease well, and that he may direct his Reme­dies to the purpose, there are some Con­siderations common to both Sexes, some peculiar to each, and others yet apper­taining to Chirurgery; the first of the eight Chapters into which this Book is divided, shall be common to both Sexes; the second for Males; the third for Fe­males; and the five last shall be Chirurgical, treating of Swellings, Wounds, Ulcers, Bones broken and out of joynt; conclu­ding with some things concerning the Re­medy which hath been given the Sick, the date of the Book, an Answer to some ob­jections, and an Alphabetical Table. Some of which must be omitted by such as they concern not, to wit, the Chapter concerning Males, by such as shall ask Advice for a Woman or Girl, and then that of Females, when one desires judg­ment concerning a Man or Boy; and so other Chapters.

The Use of this Book is in this man­ner; One must make a mark with a Pen­cil, [Page 13] or draw a slight line with a Pen up­on the number, or on that part of the Fi­gure which one would denote: With this distinction in reference to the Figures re­presenting the Body of Man or the parts thereof, that to mark a pain or any ex­ternal ail, the line ends on the Skin or the outside of the Figure, without being continued with Points: but to signifie an internal pain or ail of the same Part, one must continue the line with Points.

As, to signi­fie

  • A
  • B
  • C

a superficial wound on the right Cheek I must represent it by the line [A,] which sim­ply ends on that part, without being continu­ed by Points. But to shew a deep wound or pain in the left Cheek, beyond the line [B,] which ends there, this line must be yet continued with more or less Points, accordingly as the Ail shall lye deep. And when the pain or other grievance is any way extended, the line must divide it self into two, three or more Rays, [Page 14] which must end round about, just where the grief reaches: Thus, if you look on the lines that begin at the Letter [C] one of which goes to the middle of the Forehead, another to the Crown, and a third to the left side of the Head, they signifie a pain in half of the same, cal­led a Hemicrany, and by the common sort the Megrim.

So, to represent the state of a sick Per­son, whose Father lived a long time, but sickly and troubled with the Gout, who was begot by him in his old Age, of a Mo­ther in her youth and health. This sick Persons constitution is weakly; the Skin without hair, clear, soft, thin and moist; the Colour pale; of a middle Stature; habit of Body lean; takes liquid Medi­cins with ease, but solid ones with diffi­culty; hard to Purge, but easie to Vo­mit, &c. I must underscore it with a Pen or Pencil, as you may see. And such as have leisure may write it out on a Pa­per apart, leaving the Words which are not included or marked: And by this means one will find the Sense compleat, and not at all interrupted with other words, useless to the matter in hand. As for example;

[Page 15] The Person for whom Advice is desi­red, is descended from a Father of a long, middling or short Life, yet living Healthy, or who was troubled with the Headach, Palsie, Apoplexy, Falling-sickness, Consumption, Dropsie, Gravel, Stone, Colick, Venereal Disease, Gout, Piles, Le­prosie, &c. Who begat him in his Youth; Manhood or Old Age; Of a Mother of a long, middling, or short Life, or yet living: Healthy, or who was troubled with the Headach, Palsie, Apoplexy, Fall­ing-sickness, Consumption, Dropsie, Fits of the Mother, Gravel, Stone, Colick, Venereal Disease, Gout, Piles, Leprosie, &c. who bore the Patient in her Youth, in in her middle Age, or towards her old Age.

As to the Constitution, it is Hale, Mid­dling, or Weakly.

The Stature, very Tall, Middling, or very Low.

The Habit of Body Fat or Lean.

Easie, or hard to work on by a Purge.

Easie, hard, or indifferent to take li­quid or solid Medicins.

Vomits easily, difficultly, or never.

[Page 16] And so of the rest; For it will be easie to apply to the same use, and to em­ploy every word of this Book to give its meaning. As in pressing the Fingers upon the Keys of a Virginal, you make some of them give their sound, while others lye still; whence proceeds the Harmony of the Instrument. But if the meaning of every Article of these Observations be not apprehended, or if some (as we said) seem not pertinent to the Subject; such may be let alone, As likewise one may to a whole Case add what he shall judge is wanting.

Thus have we done with the Essay, which we thought good to premise, for the clearing of our grand Design, and the Practice of the same. Now we pro­cede to

CHAP. I. The Observations common to both Sexes, and where the first Marks ought to be 5 made.

THE Person for whom Advice is desi­red, is descended from a Father of a long, middling or short Life, or yet alive: 10 Healthy, or who was troubled with the Headach, Palsie, Apoplexy, Falling-sick­ness, Consumption, Dropsie, Gravel, Stone, Colick, Gout, Piles, Venereal Disease, Le­prosie, &c. Who begot the Party in his 15 Youth, Manhood, or in his old Age: Of a Mother of a long, middling or short Life, or yet living: Healthy, or who was troubled with the Head-ach, Palsie, Apo­plexy, Falling-sickness, Consumption, 20 Dropsie, Fits of the Mother, Gravel, Stone, Colick, Venereal Disease, Gout, Piles, Le­prosie, &c. Who bore the Party in her Youth, middle Age, or towards her old Age. 25

As to the Constitution, it is hale, mid­dling or weakly.

The Stature very Tall, Middling, or ve­ry Low.

[Page 18] The habit of Body, fat, fleshy or lean.

Hath a Head very great, little, or well proportioned to the rest of the body.

The Forehead broad or narrow, high or low, or midling. Eyes sparkling, lively or dull; large, midling or little; blew, 5 green, red, grey, yellow, white or black. The mould of the Head over-shot, little or much sunk. The Nose big, sharp, red, blew, long, short, of a middle size, high, flat and dented in, or eaten away. Nostrils wide 10 or narrow, little or much. The Lips of a high or low red, wan, blew, thick, turn'd in­side out, middling, or little and thin. The Mouth wide, middling or narrow. The Teeth standing close, or one at a distance 15 from another, white or discoloured and black, sound or rotten, dry or moist. The Cheeks full, hanging down, flat, hollow or middling. The chin long, short, mid­dling, 20 round or dimpled. The Neck short, long, of a middle length; thick, slender, or of a middle thickness. The Chest full, narrow, or of a middle size.

Hair thick or thin; curl'd, light, yellow, 25 red, dark, black, beginning to be gray, or turn'd gray; bald all over, on the crown, before, behind, or on several parts of the Head.

[Page 19] Hair course, middling or fine, greasie, neither very dry, nor very moist.

Hath a colour good or bad, naturally or by accident. The Complexion white, pale, red. The balls of the Cheeks a little or 5 very red; having a colour brown or fair, tawny, yellow, greenish, black. Hath or hath not Freckles or Pimples in the Face. Hath or never had the Small Pox.

Is streight or crooked, much or little, 10 before or behind. Is a little, or very lame in the hip, leg or foot, right or left, natu­rally or by accident.

Sleeps little or much, a long while, or presently after Dinner, quietly or restlesly, not within a few or many days. 15

Hath Dreams pleasant, displeasing or in­different; dreaming of fire, water, mire, or of flying in the Air.

Is easie or hard to work on by a Purge. 20 Vomits easily, or hardly, or cannot vomit at all.

Takes solid Medicins with difficulty, in­differently well, or with ease: Takes liquid Medicins with ease, difficultly, or indiffe­rently 25 well.

Dwells, or dwells not in the native Air, which is serene or troubled, subtil or gross, enlightened or not enlightened by the [Page 20] Sun, and exposed to the Winds on the East, South, West or North; unbounded or else enclosed with Mountains; tempe­rate, hot, cold, dry or moist and fenny, or near a River: infected or not infect­ed. 5

Eats and Drinks little or much in health; makes one, two or three meals a day.

Was ever temperate in eating and 10 drinking; or was of late, or of a long time addicted to excess in drinking Brandy, Punch, Wine, either Canary, Sherry, Cla­ret, white Wine or Rhenish, old or new, fine or foul, Cider, Beer or Ale, Coffee, 15 Thea or Mum; cold water, spring, river, rain and ditch water corrupted. Or eats too much Salt-meats, Spices, Oisters, Cheese new or old, milk-meats, garlick, onyons, coleworts, turneps, radishes, mu­shromes, 20 cucumbres, melons, pease, beans, cherries, currans, goosberries, apricocks, peaches, plums, small nuts, chesnuts, wall-nuts and other bad food, and things hard of digestion. 25

Hath to excess either smoaked or chew­ed Tobacco, or taken it in snuff.

Uses much, indifferent, or little Exer­cise.

[Page 21] Hath much, indifferent or little business of the mind.

Is seldom, sometimes, or often sick of Diseases violent, or moderate; long or short; slight or dangerous.

Hath been accustomed to purge and 5 bleed 1, 2, 3, 4 times, or more in a year, and hath forbore the doing of it for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 years, and upwards.

Hath one, two, three or four Issues, in or by the head, ears, shoulders, arm or leg, 10 which run plentifully, little or nothing, of a long time before or since the Party fell sick. Or hath one, two, three or four is­sues, which have been dryed up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 years, months or weeks. 15

Hath had Scabs or Breakings out, or an Ulcer dryed up, or running, a little or long before, or since this Fit of Sickness.

[Page 22] Is of the Age of

Years Mo. Days. Hours.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 1 11 21 1 13
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 2 12 22 2 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3 3 13 23 3 15
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 4 14 24 4 16
29 30 31 32 33 34 35 5 5 15 25 5 17
36 37 38 39 40 41 42 6 6 16 26 6 18
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 7 7 17 27 7 19
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 8 8 18 28 8 20
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 9 9 19 29 9 21
64 65 66 67 68 69 70 10 10 20 30 10 22
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 11   11 23
78 79 80 just, full, or or thereabout. 12  
thereabout.  

Hath been ill, or kept Bed.

Years. Mon. Days. Hours.
1 2 3 4 1 1 12 22 1 12
5 6 7 8 2 2 13 23 2 13
9 10 11 12 3 3 14 24 3 14
13 14 15 16 4 4 15 25 4 15
17 18 19 20 5 5 16 26 5 16
21 22 23 24 6 6 17 27 6 17
25 26 27 28 7 7 18 28 7 18
29 30 31 32 8 8 19 29 8 19
33 34 35 36 9 9 20 30 9 20
37 38 39 40 10 10 21   10 21
41 42 just, or 11 11 22   11 22 23
thereabout.   just, or thereabout.

[Page 23] Because of an Ague, which comes eve­ry day, or every other day; or there are two well days and one ill, or two ill days and one well. The Fit comes at the same or different hours, ebbs and flows, begins 5 with a great or little chilness, lasts half a quarter, a quarter, half or three quarters of an hour, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 hours: It comes once or twice a day, with yawning, stret­ching, sickness at the heart, vomiting, pain in the Limbs, faintness, without any 10 exercise before it: Is attended with a great or moderate heat, head-ach, dryness of mouth; little, great or moderate Thirst: The hot Fit lasts half a quarter, a quarter, 15 half, three quarters of an hour, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 hours; Ends in vomiting, loos­ness, sweat, or discharge of Urine. Or hath kept bed for a continual Fever, which 20 began with much or a little shivering, or without any chilness at all, with sickness at the heart, vomiting and faintness: The heat is tolerable or intolerable, with much, little or no alteration: The outward parts 25 much, indifferent, or a little cold: The inwards much, indifferent, or a little hot; or on the contrary: A pain in the Loyns, with or without a cough, dry or moist, [Page 24] waking or sleeping with [...]ving, restles­ness: Which continual Fever is always at the same pass, or is higher every day, or every other day, or twice on the same day: Or else is slow, encreases after din­ner, 5 with heat in the palms of the hands: Is accompanyed with a pain in the head or in some other parts.

Which must be marked in the Figure A, B, 10 or C; drawing the Line, which signifies the pain, from the word Pain just to the part pain­ed: and so for Redness and other Accidents; with or without Points, accordingly as the Grief shall lye deep or shallow.

[Page]

A Scalding, Excoriation, Wart.

Pain, Stich, Red­ness, Swelling or Boil, Wound, Ulcer, Itch, Numbness, Heaviness, Burn­ing, Pricking, Throbbing, Racking, Tetter, Pim­ples, Scurf, Scab, Kernel, Felon,

[Page]

B Scurf, Scab, Kernel, Fe­lon, Scald­ing, Exco­riation, Wart.

Pain, Stitch, Redness, Swel­ling or Boil, Wound, Ulcer, Itch, numbness, Heaviness, Burning, Prick­ing, Throbbing, Racking, Tet­ter, Pimples,

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C Excoriation, Wart.

Pain, Stitch, Red­ness, Swelling or Boil, Wound, Ul­cer, Itch, Numb­ness, Heaviness, Burning, Prick­ing, Throbbing, Racking, Tetter, Pimples, Scurf, Scab, Kernel, Fe­lon, Scalding,

[Page 28] Hath a Belly very hard and tight, or soft; much or a little costive, or pretty loose, moderately; or with a Flux of the Belly: Goes to Stool oftner on the day than in the night, or oftner in the night 5 than on the day, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 times in a day, or every hour; with or without gripes and racking pains in the guts, in the fundament, with, or without much straining: Voids stuff that is, white, muddy, yellow, red and bloody, like the 10 washings of raw Flesh, grey, green, black or of divers colours; frothy or not; with or without gnawings of the Guts.

Makes water often or seldom, with pain or without pain; makes much or 15 little at a time; drop by drop, or full stream; which is clear or thick at the ma­king; pale, yellow, citron-coloured, red, reddish, bloody, greenish, black; having stood a while it either alters not, or of 20 clear made it becomes thick: Looks like fair water, new verjuice, or stale of Beasts; Has a cloud at the bottom, in the middle, or at the top: which cloud is white, even, alike, or divided into several pieces: Or 25 it has no cloud, or it has threads, or is foul like bran, or has something like grease swimming at the top: Has grounds, Lees or [Page 29] Settling at the bottom; which is white, and being warmed becomes clear, as be­fore, or it alters not at all.

Sweats not; or is apt to sweat, often or seldom, all the body over, or only in some 5 part, as, round the head, in the forehead, in the neck and breast, which sweat comes only in a dew, or in great drops, in a great or small quantity; Is hot or cold, rank or without smell, greasie or clammy, lasting a 10 quarter, half, three quarters of an hour 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 hours. The sweat came the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, day of the Sickness.

Spits and raises with pain and cough­ing, or easily and without coughing; a lit­tle or a quantity of Spittle; clear, thick, glewy, round, white, yellow, red or black; froathy, filthy and like an Aposteme. 20

Bleeds not, or bleeds much, or little at the Nose, at the right or left nostril, often or seldom, thin or thick, red and fresh or black; at the mouth, by cough or vomit, or without coughing and vomiting; which 25 is much or little in quantity, thin or thick, froathy, red, fresh or black; at the Fundament, not going or going to stool, mingled or not mingled with the Excre­ments, [Page 30] thin or thick, red, fresh or black.

In mind free: or has been or is still di­sturbed with some sorrow, dread and ap­prehension, with, or without cause.

The place of the pain, which is mar­ked 5 before in the Figure A, B or C is al­ways the same; or is encreased or eased by touching the part: is with or without heaviness: is little, middling, great or in­supportable: seeming to the sick like a 10 load, and as if it either bound or stretch­ed the part: feeling like the prick of a needle, or the blow of a hammer: is con­tinual or comes by fits: came lately or long ago: Is more violent fasting or after 15 meat, on the day than in the night: Is eased by heat or by cold: or it finds ease neither by heat nor by cold.

It tarries often or sometimes without feeling or moving: with or without loss 20 or diminution of judgment and memory; with or without groaning: the Excrements come away of themselves, or without the parties knowledg: snorts and foams at the mouth: has fits or convulsions of all the 25 limbs, or of some only, marked in the Figure A, B, or C.

Hath a dizziness in the head, continual or at times, with or without dimness of [Page 31] sight, before or after meal.

Hath startings often or seldom.

Hath sore Eyes, with or without in­flammation, redness, smarting, involunta­ry tears, blearedness or matter; and that 5 of it self, or after a blow, or because some­thing is got into the Eye.

The Eyes seem good, but the party cannot see at all; hath some film, or white covering over the sight of the right or 10 left Eye, or of both: or something like Flies is flying before the eyes: cannot see in a great or little Light, things afar off or near: or sees things at a good distance, as they are, or double; is squint-eyed, one 15 eyed, or blind by nature or by acci­dent.

Hath a pain in the ears, a humming, ringing, or some noise, inveterate or late­ly come: great, little, or moderate: is thick 20 of hearing: matter issueth or issueth not out of the ear: hears nothing at all, from the cradle, or for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 years, months, days, and more or thereabout, since some animal or some other thing got 25 into the ear, since the using of quick-silver.

Hath the Nose stuff'd with something within it, as an excrescence of flesh, which [Page 32] is soft, hard, red, black, ulcered or not ul­cered, with or without ill smell from some­thing in the Nose: bloweth out little or much matter, thick or thin, green, yellow, or white, or bloweth it not at all, or rubs 5 the Nose often: Smelling is diminished or quite lost.

The Tongue is well, or cancered, or furr'd, of colour white, black or yellow, dry or moist, extremely rough, chapt and 10 raw; [...]eaks plain, or has an impediment in speech from the cradle, or since this sickness: Hath lost the voice, or speech, is hoarse: is, or is not tongue-tyed: sucks well or cannot suck. 15

The mouth is well, or bitter, salt, or stin­king, with an ill breath, raw, or not raw: the gums which cover the Teeth, are swol­len, ulcered, eaten away, or sound.

Hath swallowed a Fish-bone, a Bone, or 20 some strange thing: Or it is thought, that some animal slid down the throat in slee­ping.

Hath a pain in swallowing, and seems as if some bit stuck in the throat; and 25 what is swallowed, makes a noise as if it fell into a Barrel.

Belches sowre, bitter, of an ill savour, or brings up wind or worms at the mouth: [Page 33] hath been weaned, or not weaned 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 days, weeks, months.

The Child hath, or hath not yet all its teeth; and there are wanting or cut 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 great teeth upper or lower, 5 or one or both of the Eye-teeth.

Hath the Tooth-ach a little while or a long time, on one side only or upon both; the teeth being fast or loose, or not a tooth either little or great decayed, rotten and 10 hollow; the pain whereof is greater in the night than on the day, or on the day than in the night; and finds ease by heat or by cold.

Hath a Crick in the Neck, which hin­ders 15 or hinders not the turning of the head, with or without the Almonds of the ears being down: or hath a swelling of the whole neck, with or without red­ness, pain and inflammation; which hin­ders, 20 or hinders not at all the breathing, in bed or up.

Hath a pain in the right or left side, which strikes up, or strikes not up to the paps or arm-pits. 25

Can lye easily, indifferently, or with dif­ficulty upon the sound or the sick side.

Hath shortness of breath, with or with­out ratling in the throat, redness of cheeks, [Page 34] leanness of the whole body, or only of the legs and thighs.

Hath pantings or beatings of the heart, very often or seldom.

Hath ordinarily, or since the sickness 5 came, a pulse quick, moderate or slow, strong, mean or weak, even or une­ven.

Sighs seldom or very often.

Hath lost the relish of Victuals, at the 10 sight whereof the stomach turns; hath lit­tle or much loathing; hath a great or mo­derate appetite of things ordinary or ex­traordinary.

Hath a pain in the pit of the stomach, an hour, two, three, four, five or six hours 15 after meal, or always.

Digests well, or does not digest Victu­als at all, and voids them by Stool just as they were taken: or has much ado to di­gest them, or casts them up either pre­sently, 20 or an hour, two, three, four, five, six or seven hours after Meat.

Peuks seldom or often, little or much of its Milk, clear or curdled, presently, 25 or a quarter, half an hour, or an hour or two after it has suck'd.

Has a Vomiting and Loosness, with or without Cramp or Convulsion, and vomits [Page 35] Matter, excrementious, white, yellow, black, green, or of divers colours.

Voids by Stool often or seldom Worms alive, dead, long, short, flat, hairie, in a great or little quantity. 5

Falls in a Swoon all of a sudden, by little and little, often or seldom, and con­tinues in it a little while or a long time.

Hath a pain under the short Ribs on the right or left side, with or without the Hickup, with, or without hardness and 10 tightness of the part, which pain presses or presses not upon the Stomach, with or without rumbling in the Belly.

Hath a Belly of a good bigness, or puf­fed 15 up and tight: feels a floating up and down, or as it were a Bladder full of Wa­ter, which sounds like a Drum: or the whole Body is the same: whereof if one touch any one part, the print of the finger 20 remains, or does not remain: or only the legs; or the belly, thighs and legs are swol­len: which swelling comes at night, and goes away in the morning, or is always hard, never comes but upon standing 25 long, in the night or on the day: is great, small, or midling: and that without ha­ving had any disease before it, or after some continual Fever, Quotidian, Ter­tian or Quartan Ague.

[Page 36] Hath a pricking pain in the Reins, which is marked in the Figure A, B, or C, on the right or left side, or along the belly, with or without inclination to vomit, with or without a pain of the thigh on the same 5 side.

Hath a pain of the whole belly, which is not eased by heat or cold: or only about the Navil, which is eased by heat or cold.

Hath, or is thought to have the Stone 10 in the Kidneys or Bladder.

Hath a pain in the joynts, with or with­out swelling, redness or stiffness: which pain is asswaged by heat or cold, and is continual or comes by fits, chiefly in Spring, 15 Autumn, Summer or Winter: walks freely, or cannot walk but with difficul­ty.

Hath a pain in all the Limbs at once, or only in some one: which pain is deep 20 or superficial: in the joynts, on one side of them, or in the middle of the limb: more violent in the night than on the day, or on the day than in the night, which causeth lameness or no lameness: or else 25 hath pains, which run hither and thither, being sometimes in one arm sometimes in the other, sometimes in one leg and some­times in another part, marked in the Fi­gure A, B, or C.

[Page 37] Hath Pimples and Scabs hard or soft, all over the Body, or only about the Fore­head or the Head: which cast or doe not at all cast forth Matter or Water yel­lowish or clear: and in some other parts 5 of the Body, with or without falling of the hair, much, indifferent or little: Itch, Scurf, Galling and Ulcers: which are hard or easie to heal; or they come again after they are healed. 10

Hath, or hath not Lice in the Head or all over the Body, in great or little quan­tity. 15

CHAP. II. For Males.

HE is married, a Widower or a Bat­chelor.

He has not been able to keep his Seed 1, 2, 34, 5, 6, 7, 8 days, weeks, months, years: which is thin or thick, watry, white, or 25 it discolours his linnen: of a yellow or green colour, of a bad scent: he voids it with pain, or without perceiving it: when [Page 38] he makes or makes not water, before or after he has made water: mingled with his urine or not.

Runs often or seldom.

In a great, midling, or small quantity. 5

With, or without erection of the Yard.

Having, or not at all having his Yard swollen.

With, or without swelling of the Nut.

With, or without swelling of the Fore­skin 10 or of the skin that covers the Nut: which skin covers or uncovers the Nut easily, or cannot cover it, or else cannot uncover it.

With, or without smarting in the pas­sage. 15

With, or without an Ulcer upon the Nut, or upon the skin that comes over it: which Ulcer has edges hard or soft, has proud flesh, or is even or hollow, has been 20 cured and is come again, or has not been cured at all, but is a little diminished.

He has had for some days, months or years the kernels of his Groin large, soft, hard, with, or without pain: which have Matter in them or not, of the big­ness 25 of a small nut, walnut, an egg, of the bigness of ones fist or bigger: his Cods or Stones are swollen, with or without the [Page 39] coming down of a Gut, which goes up a­gain in the night, or does not go up again into its place,

He hath pimples or warts upon the Nut, or upon the skin that covers the Nut. 5

He hath a Carnosity in the passage of his Yard, that stops his water: which may then be known, when putting in a wax Candle one finds some resistence.

Which Accidents have lasted

Years. Mon. Days. Hours.
1 2 3 4 1 1 12 23 1 12
5 6 7 8 2 2 13 24 2 13
9 10 11 12 3 3 14 25 3 14
13 14 15 16 4 4 15 26 4 15
17 18 19 20 5 5 16 27 5 16
21 22 23 24 6 6 17 28 6 17
25 26 27 28 7 7 18 29 7 18
29 30 31 32 8 8 19 30 8 19
33 34 35 36 9 9 20   9 20
37 38 39 40 10 10 21   10 21
41 42 just, 11 11 22   11 22 23
or thereabout.   just, or thereabout.

CHAP. III. For Females.

SHe is a Maid, a Married Woman or a Widow for these 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Months, Years and more.

She has not yet had the benefits of Na­ture, 10 or but seldom, in a little quantity, in or out of order, with or without much trouble, as Gripes and Pains in the Bow­els: or she has them well formerly; but they have been stopp'd for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 15 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 Days, Months, Years without ap­parent cause, or by reason of some vexa­tion, fright, grief: or she has them in a great, little, or moderate quantity, with 20 or without pain in her Loins, loss of Ap­petite, weakness, and noise in her ears: She has had them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 Days, Months, with or without the inter­val 25 of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 days.

She has at this instant, or used to have them red, thin, thick, yellow, green, black, [Page 41] pale, with or without clots of Blood: with or without smarting: or else she has the Whites, thin or thick, also with or without smarting, in a great or small quan­tity, continually, or at times: She has lost 5 them entirely for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Months, Years and more.

She looks pale, or her skin is pale, green­ish, yellowish, swarthy, together with dif­ficulty in walking, heaviness in her leggs: 10 She has a longing to eat things unusual, as Plaister, Coals, Ashes, Salt, Chalk, and the like.

She is, or believes she is gone with Child 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 weeks, months com­pleat, 15 and an half, or thereabouts: her Breasts are grown bigger or less: She hath a numbness or pain in her thighs, legs, or knees: She longs for several things: She has qualms at her heart. 20

She feels, or she feels not her Child stir, or she feels it stir often or seldom.

She has had some breach of the Water.

She is brought to Bed usually at her full time, with or without hard Labour, which 25 lasts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 days: or else be­fore her time, at 4, 5, 6, 8 months, with­out cause apparent: Or else she is come before her time, by reason of a fall, strain, [Page 42] blow, sudden fright, loss of blood: Or else she cries out at her full time, the Wa­ter coming away 1, 2, 3, 4 days before the Child, or but a moment before it: or she has been in Travel these 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 hours, or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 days.

She has been well or ill delivered of a Boy or Girl these 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 10 hours, days, weeks or months: the after­birth came away whole, or else it was torn and came away in pieces, with, or with­out ill scent, or there remains still some part of it in the Womb. 15

The Child presents, or comes not in a natural posture; but presents or comes the Feet foremost, or presented an Arm: came double, alive, or dead, was drawn away by violence, whole or in pieces. 20

She cleanses, or cleanses not in her lying in.

She nurses, or nurses not her Child.

With or without pain, inflammation, hardness, aposteme and ulcer in her 25 Breasts: the milk being, or not being curd­led.

The Nipples either have, or have not the skin off.

[Page 43] She has a great, little, or moderate quantity of Milk; which is sweet or sharp, white or yellowish: thin, and which runs too much being put upon the nail, mode­rately thick: which swells not being boyl­ed: 5 or else she hath no milk at all.

She can have no Children, and yet it is not her Husbands fault.

She hath Breasts round or large and flat, great, midling or little, hard or soft, and 10 her flanks large or strait.

She hath a belly big and swollen, and yet she hath passed the time of nine Months: is of a good or bad colour, and she feels nothing stir in her Belly: which being touched sounds or does not sound. 15

She feels, or feels not a pricking pain in the Womb: and some matter comes a­way or comes not from thence.

The Womb is ulcerated with or with­out 20 itching.

She hath at the Orifice of the Womb a swelling of colour, white, red, blackish, with pain, hardness in the groins, in the bottom of the belly, in the back, or other 25 parts marked in the Figure A, B, or C.

She hath the Orifice of the Womb dri­ven back inwardly, with, or without numbness and chilness in the knees: she [Page 44] hath this Orifice high, low, thick, hard, soft, direct, or on one side: She hath it clo­sed at all times, or at some seasons, after some Ulcers were healed up.

She hath a falling down of the Womb, 5 little, great, or moderate for a few or ma­ny days, months or years.

She hath Fits: with or without loss of motion and sense, difficulty of breathing, and as it were a ceasing of breath and 10 pulse, and a convulsion of the limbs.

CHAP. IV. 15 Of Swellings.

HAth, or hath not Pushes, or risings of the small pox all over the Bo­dy, 20 or in the parts marked in the Figure A, B, or C, which are come out a little or in abundance, or they disappeared pre­sently: are larger or straiter at the bot­tom than at the top, blackish, whitish, 25 round, long.

Hath a Tumor or Swelling great, in dif­ferent, or small, and of the bigness of half a Vetch, a Pea, a Bean, a small Nut, a [Page 45] Wall-nut, a Pigeons Egg, a Hens Egg, a Gooses Egg, ones Fist, both ones Fists, ones Head.

Which began

Years Mo. Days. Hours.
1 2 3 4 5 1 1 11 21 1 12
6 7 8 9 10 2 2 12 22 2 13
11 12 13 14 15 3 3 13 23 3 14
16 17 18 19 20 4 4 14 24 4 15
21 22 23 24 25 5 5 15 25 5 16
26 27 28 29 30 6 6 16 26 6 17
31 32 33 34 35 7 7 17 27 7 18
36 37 38 39 40 8 8 18 28 8 19
41 42 since, just 9 9 19 29 9 20
or thereabout. 10 10 20 30 10 21
  11 or thereabout. 11 22 23

In the part of the Body marked in the Figure A, B, or C.

This Swelling is hard or soft.

20 With or without pain.

With or without heat.

Red, yellowish, pale, lead-coloured or black.

It came after some disease, or without 25 having ever been sick.

Upon, or without a fall or strain.

Removes, or removes not, when one touches it.

[Page 46] Came suddenly, or was a great while in coming.

Appears at one time and disappears at another, or is always at the same pass.

Is with or without itching.

With or without pustles or wheals. 5

The mark of the finger remains when one presses it, or does not remain.

Ripens or ripens not at the top.

Beats or does not beat.

Is hard in the beginning, or grows hard­er 10 after application of Remedies.

Hath swelled veins all about.

Hath made a scar or scab.

Is with or without prickings.

Is heavie. 15

Is transparent, and one may see the light through it.

Is long, round, triangular, square, or of an unequal Figure.

CHAP. V. Of Wounds.

THe Wound has been received.

Years Mo. Days Hours
1 2 3 4 5 1 1 11 21 1 1 12
6 7 8 9 10 2 2 12 22 2 2 13
11 12 13 14 15 3 3 13 23 3 3 14
16 17 18 19 20 4 4 14 24 4 4 15
21 22 23 24 25 5 5 15 25 5 5 16
26 27 28 29 30 6 6 16 26 6 6 17
31 32 33 34 35 7 7 17 27 7 7 18
36 37 38 39 40 8 8 18 28 8 8 19
41 42 just or there­about. 9 9 19 29 9 9 20
          10 10 20 30 10 10 21
          11 or thereabout 11 22 23

This Wound is superficial, or deep, in 20 the part or parts marked in the Figure A, B, or C.

It was made with the edge or the point of a Sword, Poniard, or Knife, Needle or Bod­kin: or else it came by a fall from some 25 high place, or is only wounded from on high, with, or without bruising: or it was made by a blow of ones fist, a stick, stone, [Page 48] or Fire-Arms, at a distance or nigh: by a shiver of wood or stone: by a bullet, the wadding or a piece of the cloaths stick­ing in the wound, with which blow the Patient either tumbled or tumbled not: 5 with or without loss of Speech: or the Wound came by the bite or sting of some Animal, venomous or not venomous.

Which wound either hath bled, or yet bleeds much or little, in a stream, spring­ing 10 out, or drop by drop, pure or mingled with excrement or urine: or out of it there runs a Matter grey, white as milk, yellow or black.

In which the flesh either is or is not car­ried 15 away: with or without inflammati­on, swelling, pain, convulsion of the part, disposition to a gangrene or mortification, blackness, fever, fainting, raving, vomit­ing. 20

Which Wound is great or little, length­ways or across, from above, downwards, or from below, upwards: hath pierced or not pierced into some hollow part, hath passed in and out, or hath not passed out: 25 out of which there comes a wind or air which blows a Candle.

CHAP. VI. Of Ʋlcers.

HAth several Ulcers, or hath but one Ulcer in the part or parts of the Body, marked in the Figure A, B, or C. Which Ulcer came of it self without any external cause, or it came after some Fall, Blow, Wound, Aposteme, Burning, Prick 10 or Bite of an Animal not Venomous.

It is hollow, having a strait entrance, and wide within, with or without hard­ness of the edges of it: or else is superfici­al, 15 long, narrow, large, round, four­square, three-cornered, with or without great veins about it: with, or without in­flammation, with or without redness, with or without pain: being filled with 20 flesh, dead, spongy, or having flesh fair and red.

With or without corruption of the bone: which sends out a little, indiffe­rent, much, or no matter at all: which is 25 white, grey, black, thin, thick; with or without ill smell: or which is mingled with blood, or casts out a brown water [Page 50] with Maggots: which Ulcer runs from place to place, fretting the parts round about it: is encompassed on the inside with a skin like a quill.

This Ulcer hath been healed once, com­ing 5 or not coming again, is great or little, hath been for

Years. Mon. Days. Hours.
1 2 3 4 5 1 1 11 21 1 12
6 7 8 9 10 2 2 12 22 2 13
11 12 13 14 15 3 3 13 23 3 14
16 17 18 19 20 4 4 14 24 4 15
21 22 23 24 25 5 5 15 25 5 16
26 27 28 29 30 6 6 16 26 6 17
31 32 33 34 35 7 7 17 27 7 18
36 37 38 39 40 8 8 18 28 8 19
41 42 just, or 9 9 19 29 9 20
thereabout. 10 10 20 30 10 21
  11 or thereabout 11 22 23

CHAP. VII. Of Broken Bones.

HAth a bone broken in some one or 5 more parts of the Body, marked in the Figure A, B, or C, by a fall, blow or wound, by fire-arms.

With a wound or without a wound. 10

Which is broken short off, or shivered a-cross or length-ways, with splinters or little pieces of bone, or without splinters.

Comes out, or comes not out: is within or without, above or below. 15

Hath both the bones broke in the legg or arm, or has but one broke, which was set instantly, or a long time after, or is not yet well set again.

Is knit again, or cannot knit. 20

The Skull is split before or behind, or near the Temples, or hard by the Sutures, and the breach of it is great or little, with or without falling in of the bone, the cleft reaching or not reaching to the second Table, or reaching to the dura mater. 25

A piece of the broken bone is come out, or not come out.

CHAP. VIII. Of Bones out of Joynt.

HAth a Bone out of Joynt, or out of the Pan, in one or several parts of the Body marked in the Fig. A, B, or C. 5

This Bone is either quite out or but part part of it.

Was put out above, below, on the right, or left.

By Violence, as a Fall, a Wrench: or 10 without Violence, and by little and little.

It moves with pain, or moves not at all.

It is forced in, is even with the rest, or comes outwards.

Came out of it self, or by accident, for these

Years Mo. Days Hours
1 2 3 4 5 1 1 11 21 1 1 12
6 7 8 9 10 2 2 12 22 2 2 13
11 12 13 14 15 3 3 13 23 3 3 14
16 17 18 19 20 4 4 14 24 4 4 15
21 22 23 24 25 5 5 15 25 5 5 16
26 27 28 29 30 6 6 16 26 6 6 17
31 32 33 34 35 7 7 17 27 7 7 18
36 37 38 39 40 8 8 18 28 8 8 19
41 42 just or there­about. 9 9 19 29 9 9 20
  10 10 20 30 10 10 21
11 or thereabout 11 22 23

[Page 53] Hath suspicion of being poisoned.

He or she is not bound in his or her Bo­dy: or is Costive, or seldome goes to Stool, but when he or she takes a Clyster,

Hath taken a Vomit in this sickness 5 once, twice, or thrice, and brought up Choler, or Water, Sheer, Yellow, Green, and finds him or her self worse or better.

He or she hath been bled in the Arm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 times: in the Foot or at the haemorhoid Veins 1, 2, 3, 4 times: the 10 blood was very good or bad at the first bleedings or pottingers: the blood was very good or bad at the last bleedings or pottingers.

He or she hath been purged 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 15 times, and finds him or her self worse or better.

This Book was sent for Advice at 1, 2, 20 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 of the Clock, and half a quarter, a quarter, half or three quarters of an hour before or after Noon: or just at the first or last minute of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 25 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 day of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, Septem­ber, October, November, December:In the [Page 54] year 1686, 1687, 1688, 1689, 1690, 1691, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, 1697, 1698, 1699, 1700, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705, 1706, 1707.

Behold here be the principal Remarks, that are requisite to be made upon the Sick, and upon their Diseases, which are not here na­med: because there is much more Hazard in naming of Diseases right, than there is Ease; which is the thing we have industriously de­signed for all sorts of persons. These Re­marks also may be of service to people in health; whereby to ask Advice, how they may pre­serve their health. Not to mention several other curious Uses of this Book; as it may serve for a Table to take the Physiognomy of an absent Person by. But to comprize all the circumstances of any one Subject, besides that it would be very tedious, so men rarely arrive at that excellency, as to have the first Editi­ons of their Books quite perfect. It may suf­sice, that these Remarks are such as are ordi­narily made by the best Physicians in Consul­tation, and that they are sufficient for the knowledge of Diseases. Which may serve for an Answer to the Censorious, who may blame this Work for having said too little.

[Page 55] As for those that find too much, they may leave something; yea, if they please, they may content themselves with the following Table.

But whether the Patient be rich or poor, the Use of this Book will be serviceable to ei­ther indifferently.

Now come the Criticks, who say, that no­thing is more easie than this Invention: and they say no more than what has been said in all Ages against the bravest Inventions: whose excellence consists in this, that they are found easie when once discovered; these same Fel­lows thinking they could have done as much. But let them have a care, that the easiness of our Enterprize turn not to their Discommen­dation: forasmuch as they have taken no pains in a thing so easie, and a thing which by Ex­perience hath been, and day after day will be further acknowledged so beneficial to Humane Kind.

FINIS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

VVHereas the five last Chapters of this Book are Chirurgical, our Intent there­in is only to give Advice, and to leave the manu­al Operation wholly to Chirurgeons. For since an external Tumour oft-times upon its recess, causeth internal Diseases, and again, since Fevers are often attended with Abscesses in some external Part; a Physician's and a Chirurgeon's mutual Assistence is often necessary to a Patient: And since a symptomatick Fever does ever attend conside­rable hurts done by Violence, in every such Case Medical advice ought to be joined with manual Operation. Considering therefore that several Cases cannot be managed aright without the know­ledg of these things, we have so far, as aforesaid, in­sisted upon them. Nor are we insensible, what in­juries the Chirurgeons, that serviceable Order of Men, but Patients especially, do daily suffer from Pretenders in this kind: But we will not so much as breathe a Vein; leaving, as we said, all Chirur­geons business to whom it properly belongs: To all Apothecaries also, who transgress not the limits of their Calling, and consequently neglect not their business, we are ready to send our Prescripts.

THE TABLE
Of the Book, being an easy way to represent an absent Patient's case to Physicians. Which may serve in­stead of the Book it self, marking with a Pen or Pencil the Signs and Accidents, that appear in the Sick Person, for whom Advice is desired. They that would be more exact, must have recourse to the Book.

A.

AGE of the Sick, or of the Sickness, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 25 28 30 31 40 42 45 49 50 55 56 60 63 65 70 75 77 Years, Months, Weeks, Days, or thereabout, Page 22.

Afterburden stuck, or came away whole or torn, p. 42. l. 12.

Ague, single, double, quotidi­an, tertian, quartan, p. 23.

Air native or not, exposed or not exposed to the Sun or Wind, p. 19. l. 27.

Almonds of the Ears down, p. 33. l. 17.

Appetite craving, moderate, small, disordered, p. 41. l. 11.

B.

BALD p. 18. l. 27.

Barrenness, p. 43. l. 7.

Beating of the Heart, p. 34. l. 3.

Belching, p. 32. l. 28.

Belly tight, hard, soft, loose or costive, p 28. l. 1.

Benefits of Nature, in or out of order, coming be­fore or after their time, red, pale, with, or without smart­ing, in a great, little, or mo­derate quantity, continu­ally, or now and then quite stopt, p. 40. l. 10.

Bite of an Animal venemous or not venemous, p. 48. l. 7.

Blear-Ey'd, p. 31. l, 5.

Bleeding at the Nose in a great or little quantity, of­ten or seldom, p. 29. l. 21. [Page] At the Mouth, by Cough or Vomit, with, or without Pain, p. 29. l. 24. at the Fundament, going or not going to Stool, mingled, or not mingled with the Excrements. p. 29. l. 28.

Blind. p. 31. l. 16.

Blows the Nose, little, much, or not at all, lately, or al­ways, p. 32. l. 3.

Bone broken, p. 51. l. 5. out of joint, p. 52. l. 2.

Born of a Father and Mother of a long or short Life, Sickly or Healthy, p, 17. l. 9.

Brests large, midling, or lit­tle, hard or soft, increasing or decreasing, p. 43. l. 9.

Brought to Bed in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Days, p. 41. l. 26, before her time at 4 5 6 8 Months, p. 41. l. 27.

Bruising great or little, p. 47. l. 26.

Burn, p. 49. l. 11.

C

CALLUS, p. 51. l. 20.

Carnosity in the Passage of the Yard, p. 39. l. 6.

Chapping and rawness of the Tongue. p. 32. l. 10.

Cheeks full, hanging down, flat, hollow, or middling. p, 18. l. 19.

Chest full, narrow, middling, p. 18. 24.

Chillness, great or little, p. 23. l. 6.

Chin long, short, middling, round or dimpled. p. 18. l. 20.

Coffee, p. 20. l. 15.

Coldness of the outer parts, p. 23. l. 25.

Colour good or bad, natural­ly, or by Accident. p. 19. l. 3.

Constitution hale, middling, or weakly, p. 17. l. 26.

Convulsion, p. 30. l. 25.

Cough dry or moist, p. 23. l. 29.

Cramp, p. 34. l. 29.

Crooked before or behind. p. 19. l. 10.

Custom of Purging or Bleed­ing hath been left off a little while or a long time, p. 21. l. 8.

D

DEafness old or new, p. 31. l. 23.

Difficulty in Breathing, p. 33. l. 28. in walking, p. 41. l. 10. in making Water, p. 28. l. 17.

Discharge of Urine, p. 23. l. 28.

Dreams, pleasant, displeasing, of Fire, Water, Mire, of flying in the Air, p. 19. l. 18.

Dryness of Mouth, p. 23. l. 13.

Drowziness, p. 24. l. 1.

[Page] Easy or hard to Vomit or Purge, to take Medicines, p. 19. l. 20.

Eats little, moderately, or much. p. 20. l. 7.

Excess in eating and drinking p. 20. l. 12.

Excrescence in the Nose, p. 31. l. 29.

Exercise of Body or Mind, much or little, p. 20. l. 29. p. 21. l. 1.

Eyes sparkling, lively, dull, large, middling, little, p. 18. l. 5.

F

Fall from on high, p. 47. l. 25.

Falling of the Hair, p. 37. l. 6.

Falling down of the Womb. p. 44. l. 5.

Faltring in Speech. p. 33. l. 11.

Fearful with or without cause, p. 30. l. 4.

Fever continual, p. 23, 24.

Film over the right or left Eye, through which some­thing appears like flies, not being able to see in a great Light, things afar off or near hand, p. 31. l. 9.

Fit irregular, regular, which comes every day, evening or morning, holding two, three, four hours at once; there are two ill days and one well, p. 23.

Fits of the Mother, p. 44. l. 7.

Flux of the Belly great, mo­derate or small, p. 23. l. 18. and p. 28. l. 3.

Foaming at the mouth, p. 30. l. 24.

Forehead broad, middling or narrow, p. 18. l. 4.

G

GONE with Child, the first 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Month beginning or compleat, p. 41. l. 14.

Gripes, p. 28. l. 8.

Groans, p. 30. l. 22.

Gums, Swollen, Ulcered, or eaten away, p. 32. l. 18.

H

HAbit of Body, Fat, Fleshy, or Lean, p. 18. l. 1.

Hair light, red, brown, black, gray, white, curl'd, p. 18. l. 25.

Head very great, little, or well proportioned to the rest of the Body, p. 18. l. 2.

Heat great or moderate, p. 23. l. 12, 24.

Hoarse, p. 32. l. 14.

Humming or a noise in the Ears, old or new, great or small, p. 31. l. 18:

I

Issue in the head, arm or leg, dried up, p. 21. l. 10.

[Page] Judgment impaired or lost, p. 30. l. 21.

K.

KErnels in the groin, p. 38. l. 24.

L.

LAme in the Hip, Leg, or Foot, Right or Left, p. 19, l. 11.

Letting of Blood to advan­tage, or not, p. 53. l. 9.

Lips thick, middling or thin, p. 18. l. 12.

Less or diminution of Moti­on and Sense, p. 30. l. 19. of Hearing, p. 31. l. 23. of Voice or Speech, p. 32. l. 13.

M.

MAkes Water often, seldom, much, little, drop by drop, easily, clear or thick, p. 28. l. 15.

Matter in the Eyes. p. 31. l. 5. in the Ears, p. 31. l. 18.

Meals, one, two, or three a day, p. 20. l. 8.

Melancholick with, or without Cause, p. 30. l. 3.

Memory impaired or lost, p. 30. l. 21.

Milk in a great, little, or mo­derate quantity. p. 43. l. 1.

Mind free or disturbed, p. 30. l. 2.

Miscarriage by a Fall, a Strain▪ Blow, sudden fright, loss of Blood. p. 41. l. 26. p. 42. l. 1.

Motion impaired or lost, p. 30. l. 20.

Mouth wide, middling or narrow, p. 18. l. 15. well or ill, p. 32. l. 16.

N

Neck short, long, thick, slen­der, middling, p. 18. l. 21.

Noise in the Ears, p. 31. l. 19.

Nose big, long, short, mid­dling, p. 18. l. 9.

Nurseth or nurseth not her Child. p. 42. l. 23.

O

ONE-Eyed, p. 31. l. 15.

P

PAin in the Limbs, p. 23. l. 11. of the whole or part, right or left, before or be­hind in the Head, p. 23. l. 13. p. 24. l. 7. in the Loins, p. 23. l. 28. p. 36. l. 1. p. 40. l. 21. in the right or left side, p. 33. l. 23. in the Belly, Funda­ment, p. 28. l. 8. in ma­king Water, p. 28. l. 15. Which is always the same or alters, p. 30. l. 6. p. 36. l. 14, 22. Small, moderate, [Page] or great, encreasing in the day or night, and is more violent fasting, or after Meals. p. 30. l. 15. wan­dring or fixed, p. 36. l. 26. Is asswaged by heat or cold, p. 30. l. 16. With or with­out Heaviness, p. 30. l. 9. Pain in the Ears. p. 31. l. 18. in the Neck, p. 33. l. 15. in the Pit of the Sto­mach, p. 34. l. 15. in the Joints. p. 36. l. 12.

Paleness, with difficulty in Walking, p. 41. l. 8.

Palpitation or beating of the Heart, p. 34. l. 3.

Pimples and Scabs, p. 37. l. 1.

Poyson, p. 53. l. 1.

Proportion streight or not, p. 10. l. 10.

Pulse quick, moderate, slow: which beats high, low, mo­derately, p. 34. l. 6.

Purged with or without Re­lief, p. 53. l. 16.

R.

RAtling in the Throat, p. 33. l. 29.

Redness of Cheeks, p. 33. l. 29. of Eyes. p. 31. l. 4.

Restlesness. p. 24. l. 1.

Rubbing of the Nose, p. 32. l. 5.

Rumbling in the Belly, p. 35. l. 14.

S

SEed has come away for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 days, Weeks, Months, Years; which is thin or thick, white, yel­low or green; with or without Pain, in a great moderate, or small quanti­ty, with erection or swel­ling of the Yard, of the Nut, of the Praepuce, or of the Cods, with or with­out a painful Kernel in the Groin, which has matter in it or not. p. 38. l. 24.

Shortness of Breath. p. 33. l. 28.

Sick aboout 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 days, weeks Months, years, p. 22.

Sick at the Heart, p. 23. l. 10.

Sickly or not, dangerously, or without danger, p. 21. l. 5.

Sighs, p. 34. l. 9.

Sight dim, p. 31. l. 9.

Sleeps long, little, not at all; hath not slept for a pretty while, or for several days, p. 19. l. 16.

Small-Pox, p. 19. l. 9.

Smarting of the Eyes, with or without Redness and Inflammation of a long time or lately, p. 31. l. 4. in the passage of the Yard, p. 38. l. 15.

[Page] Smelling impaired or lost, p. 32. l. 6.

Sobriety or intemperance, p. 20. l. 10.

Spits or raises with or with­out Pain and Coughing lit­tle or much, thin or thick, white, yellow, red, black, frothy, like Corruption, p. 29. l. 16.

Squint-eyed, p. 31. l. 15.

Startings, p. 31. l. 2.

Stature tall, middling, or very low, p. 17. l. 28.

Sting, p. 48. l. 7.

Stinking Breath, p. 33. l. 16. in the Nose, p. 33. l. 2.

Stone in the Kidneys, Bladder, p. 36. l. 10.

Stones swollen, p. 38. l. 29.

Stools white, yellow, green, grey, red and Bloody, thick or thin, p. 28. l. 11. void­ed without knowing it, p. 30. l. 4.

Straining to stool, p. 28. l. 10:

Swallows easily or with Pain, p. 32. l. 24.

Sweats. p. 23. l. 19.

Seldom, often; the Sweats are not ranc, are clammy, hot, cold, little, or in abun­dance, or sweateth not at all, p. 29. l. 4.

Swelling or tumour, great, moderate, small, hard, fost; which throbs or throbs not long, round, or of another shape; equal or unequal, p. 44. l. 19. of the neck, p. 33. l. 18. of the belly, p. 35. l. 15. of the legs, p. 35. l. 2 [...] ▪

Swimming in the head, p. 30. l. 28.

Swoons seldom or often, p. 35. l. 6.

T.

Tast spoiled much or little, p. 34. l. 10.

Tawny visage, p. 19. l. 7.

Tears involuntary, p. 31. l. 5.

Teeth great or little, are not all cut, or are all cut but 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 stand close, or at a distance one from ano­ther, white, yellow, black or rotten, p. 33. l. 3.

Thick of hearing, p. 31. l. 20.

Thirst, p. 23. l. 14.

Tobacco, p. 20. l. 27.

Tongue clean or foul, p. 32. l. 8.

Tongue-tyed, p. 32. l. 14.

Tooth-ach, p. 33. l. 7.

Travail or child-bearing, she hath been in it, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 days, p. 41. l. 25.

U

Ulcer or Sore came of it self, 2 3 4 5 6 7 days, weeks, months, years; or after a fall or blow; even or hol­low, with or without hard­ness of the Sides, with or without Veins a­bout it; with or without inflammation, little or much redness, pain, proud flesh; with or without cor­ruption of the bone; which runs little or much matter, [Page] white, black, brown thin, thick; with or without stink, p. 49. l. 9.

Voice lost or hoarse, p. 32. l. 13 Vomits little or much, p. 34. l. 29. with relief, p. 53. l. 8.

Vomiting and Loosness, p. 34. l. 28.

Urine pale, yellow, red, bloody green, black, having a cloud in the middle, or a settling at the bottom; is clear or thick when it ha [...] stood, p. 28. l. 19.

W

Warts upon the nut of the yard, or on the skin tha [...] comes over it, p. 39. l. 4.

Watching little or much, p. 24. l. 1.

Whites, p. 41. l. 3.

Wine, p. 20. l. 13.

Wombfallen down, ulcered, with smart or itching, p. 43. l. 20. p. 44. l. 5.

Worms alive, dead, long, short, flat, hairy, in a great or lit­tle quantity, p. 35. l. 3.

Wounds, p. 47. l. 1.

Y

Yawning, p. 23. 1. 9.

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