The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.

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THE PREFACE▪

THE INDEX.

CHAP. I. Medicine Defined.

CHAP. II. Of Temperaments.

CHAP. III. Of Parts.

CHAP. IV.

Here follow the Signs of a San∣guine person.

Signs of a Cholerick Person.

The Signs of a Phlegmatick Person.

The Signs of a melancholick Person.

Of Spirits.

Of the Faculties.

Of Actions.

CHAP. V. Of Things not Natural.

Of Meats.

Of Sleep.

Of Exercise.

Of Passions of the Mind.

CHAP. VI. Tractatus de Scorbuto: OR, A Tract concerning the Scurvy. The Description of the Scurvy, with the internal and next Cause which is radi∣cated mostly in the Blood and Nervous Liquor.

CHAP. VII.

CHAP VIII.

CHAP. IX.

CHAP. X.

CHAP. XI.

CHAP. XII.

CHAP. XIII.

RƲLES concerning BREAD and BEER, which is the Best.

The Properties requisite n good and whol∣some Bread.

The Properties of the best BEER and ALE, our two most usual Drinks in England.

Some ANIMADVERSIONS upo• TOBACCO, with some Directions concerning its Ʋse.

Of the Nature, Ʋsefulness and Profit of WINE.

Of the STONE.

Of the Disease of the SPLEEN.

A TENESMƲS.

Of the DYSƲRIE.

Of the STRANGƲRY.

CHAP. XIV.

CHAP. XV. The Diagnostick Signs.

CHAP. XVI. Here followeth the Signs of the Increasing Pox.

CHAP. XVII.

CHAP. XVIII. Of the Gonorrhea.

CHAP. XIX. The description of the Dropfie

CHAP. XX. The Hypocondriack, Affecti∣on or Melancholly.

CHAP. XXI. Of the Histerick Passion.

CHAP. XXII. The Jaundise.

CHAP. XXIII. The Chollick.

CHAP. XXIV. The Disseases of the Liver.

CHAP. XXV. A Cachexia.

CHAP. XXVII. Of an Inflamation of the Lungs.

CHAP. XXVII. The Pleurisie.

CHAP. XXVIII. De Impyemate.

CAAP. XXIX. De Pthisis.

CHAP. XXX. A Catarrh or Rheum.

CHAP. XXXI. A Dysenterie.

CHAP XXXII. A Diarrhea.

CHAP. XXXIII. The Caeliack and Lienterial Passions.

CHAP. XXXIV. The Asthma.

CHAP. XXXV. The Gout.

CHAP. XXXVI. Angina or the Quinsie.

CHAP. XXXVII. The Description of a Phrensie.

CHAP. XXXVIII. Of Melancholly Madness.

CHAP. XXXIX. The Mania.

CHAP. XL. The Palpitation of the Heart.

CHAP. XLI. Worms.

CHAP. XLII. A continual Fever.

CHAP. XLIII. An intermitting Fever.

CHAP. XLIV. A Hectick Fever.

CAAP. XLV. The Rickets.

CHAP. XLVI. Of a Convulsion.

CHAP. XLVII. Of a Rhumatism.

The Medicines proper for every Disease▪ and first for the Scurvie.

most Excellent Distilled Water.

For a Gonorrhea.

For a Dropsie.

For the Hypochondriack Affection.

The Histerick Passion.

For the Jaundise.

For the Chollick.

For the Inflamation of the Liver.

For the Green-sickness

For the Peribneumonia, or Inflamation of the Lungs.

For a Pleurifie.

For an Impyemate or Ulcerated Lungs.

For a Catarrh or Defluction of Rheum.

For a Dyssentery.

For a Dyarrhea.

For the Celiack and Lienteria or Flux from the Spleen.

For the Asthma.

For the Joynt-Gout.

For the Quinsie.

For the Palpitation or beating of the Heart.

For the Worms.

For the Rickets.

part

ERRATA.