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Author: Alius Medicus.
Title: Animadversions on the medicinal observations of the Heidelberg, Palatinate, Dorchester practitioner of physick, Mr. Frederick Loss by Alius Medicus.
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Print source: Animadversions on the medicinal observations of the Heidelberg, Palatinate, Dorchester practitioner of physick, Mr. Frederick Loss by Alius Medicus.
Alius Medicus., B. T., 17th cent., Loss, Friedrich.
London: Printed for William Willis ..., 1674.
Subject terms:
Loss, Friedrich. -- Observationum medicinalium libri quatuor.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Frederico Lossio Heidelbergensi, Palatino, Dorche∣strensi Medico, salutem & sanam mentem.
TO THE Religious, Vertuous, and Discreet LADY, Mrs. ELIZABETH MOORE Of Spargrave.
The Preface to the Reader.
ANIMADVERSIONS On Mr. Loss, and on his Medicinal Observati∣ons in General.
A Catalogue of Mr. Loss his Impertinencies.
Animadversions on this first Observation.
1. That Mr. Loss did not understand this Pa∣tient's Disease before he was dead.
2. That Mr. Loss might have understood his Patient's Disease before he was dead, if he had been more an Artist.
3. That Mr. Loss did little or nothing material towards the Cure of this Patient's Disease.
4. That it was not impossible for Mr. Loss to have cured this Patient, had he taken a right course with him.
5. That after all this adoe, a Counter-Cleft is no such news in Physick, as to have deserved to be the subject of the first of these Observa∣tions, which have been fourty years Collect∣ing.
1. Of the Title of the 15th Observation. A Benign Pleurisie resolved within a Week.]
2. The Narrative of the Case.
3. Mr. Loss his Judgment on the Case.
This Patient's Principal Disease was not a Pleurisie.
Mr. Loss his Judgment of the Cause of this Patient's Pleurisie, Examined.
Mr. Loss his Method of Curing her.
The Preface Mr. Loss makes unto the Second Case.
Objections Answered against my writing this Book.
Obj. 1.
Obj. 2. Wise Men love neither to be Patern, nor Pa∣tron of any Controversie.
Obj. 3. Mr. Loss having not named me, I needed not to have been concerned at his Book.
Obj. 4. Being his Book is in Latin, my Answer ought to be in Latin also.
Obj. 5. Writing English, I needed not to have spoke so plain
Obj. 6. After I have done, Ʋncharitableness and Envy will be the Censure of my undertaking; and more strife and trouble the fruit of it.
2. His Narrative of the Second Case
3. His Judgment on the Second Case.
4. His Relation of the Event.
5. Alius Medicus his Method of Cure.
Alius Medicus his Answer unto all Mr. Loss his Accusations. To the First.
The unhandsomness of any one Physician's Back∣biting or Slandering another Physician.
Instances of Mr. Loss his Slandering of Alius Medicus.
To his Second Accusation. Especially that Bleeding by Lancet was neglected.
1. That a Child under fourteen years old may be bled by Lancet.
2. That this Gentlewoman, young Mrs. Moore might be bled by Lancet.
3. That Mr. Loss was to blame that she was not bled by Lancet before the sixth day.
To his Third Accusation. That the bleeding of her by Leeches, which had been appointed, was of no moment.
To his Seventh Accusation. Taking away, that he might not seem to do nothing, about four ounces of Blood.
To his Sixth Accusation That the Manner of bleeding was amiss. It ought to have been done by Leeches, but it was done by Lancet.
To his Fourth Accusation. That the time of bleeding her was not seasonable, it was on the sixth day of the Disease, when the Fever and other Symptoms were gone.
To his Fift Accusation. That this Patient was not bled in the Right Place.
To his Eighth Accusation, That I Purged her.
Obj 1. The Disease it self inasmuch as he judged that it was a Pleurisie, did forbid purging.
Obj. A Diarrhaea might happen.
To his Ninth Accusation. The Seventh day he Purged her.
To his Tenth Accusation. He gave her Powder of Sena.
Mr. Loss his Letter to Alius Me∣dicus.
Alius Medicus his Answer to Mr. Loss.
ERRATA.