A treatise of the small-pox and measles describing their nature, causes, and signs, diagnostick and prognostick, in a different way to what hath hitherto been known : together, with the method of curing the said distempers, and all, or most, of the best remedies : also, a particular discourse of opium, diacodium, and other sleeping medicines : with a reference to a very great case / by Gideon Harvey ...

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Author:	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?
Title:	A treatise of the small-pox and measles describing their nature, causes, and signs, diagnostick and prognostick, in a different way to what hath hitherto been known : together, with the method of curing the said distempers, and all, or most, of the best remedies : also, a particular discourse of opium, diacodium, and other sleeping medicines : with a reference to a very great case / by Gideon Harvey ...
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Subject terms:	Smallpox -- Early works to 1800. Measles -- Early works to 1800. Opium -- Physiological effect.
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THE Preface.

A TREATISE OF THE Small-Pox AND MEASLES.

CHAP. I. Comprising some Objections made by Nurses and Motherly Women, against Physicians, in the Small-pox, and Measles.

CHAP. II. Reports the general Opinion of the Original of the Small-Pox and Measles.

CHAP. III. Containing Arguments, proving, That the Measles and Small-Pox are not caused by any impurity in the uterin Blood.

CHAP. IV. That the Measles and Small-Pox are not the first and most ancient of Diseases, neither are they inevi∣table and hereditary.

CHAP. V. Proving the Original of the Small-pox and Measles to be in the Air; and the explaining the manner of falling into those Diseases.

CHAP. VI. Of Contagion, and contagious Diseases, of which the Small-Pox is a species.

CHAP. VII. Containing several inferences concern∣ing the Plague.

CHAP. VIII. Of the analogy and resemblance be∣tween the Small-Pox and Plague.

CHAP. IX. Of Venoms or Poisons, and their Differences.

CHAP. X. Explains the Nature of Poisons.

CHAP. XI. Expresses the manner of operation of venenous particles in the Air, whereby, and how they cause the Small-pox or Plague.

CHAP. XII. Of the Signs in general of the Small-Pox.

CHAP. XIII. Of the Diagnostick signs of a variolous ebullition of the Blood.

CHAP. XIV. The signs of a variolous Putrid Fever.

CHAP. XV. Of the Prognosticks.

CHAP. XVI. Of the Practick, relating to the Small-pox

CHAP. XVII. Of Letting Blood in the Small-pox, and Measles.

CHAP. XVIII. Of Purging in the Small-Pox.

CHAP. XIX. Of Vrgent Symptoms in the Small-pox; and particularly of Haemorrhages.

CHAP. XX. Of want of rest and sleep in the Small-pox; and of Hypnoticks, chiefly of Opium, and Diacodium.

CHAP. XXI. Of the chief indication in the Small-pox, and of the Remedies and Me∣dicines answering to the said indi∣cation.