Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...
- Title
- Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...
- Author
- Couch, Robert.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Robert Hartford ...,
- 1680.
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- Subject terms
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800.
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"Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34728.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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TO HIS Highly Honoured AND MUCH Esteemed FRIEND, COLONEL
RANCIS WILLIS, his Little TRACT humbly offers and submits it self. - TO THE READER.
- To all Ingenious Students and Practitioners in Physick and Chyrurgery.
- TO MY Candid and Cordial COUNTRYMEN.
- Advertisement.
- A TABLE of the several Diseases and Distempers treated of (amongst o∣ther things) in the en∣suing TRACT.
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Praxis Catholica: OR, THE COUNTRY-MAN'S Universal REMEDY.- The Spleen.
- Of the Liver.
- Of the Gaul.
- Of Fevers.
- A Malignant Fever in Children.
- Of Heat.
- Cold.
- Of Agues.
- A general Direction in Fevers.
- A Dropsie.
- Epilepsie, or Falling Sickness.
- Tortura Ventris, or a great Gri∣ping.
- FLUXES.
- Calculus Renum; or, Stone or Gra∣vel in the Reins or Kidneys.
- Flatus Hypochond. or Windy Me∣lancholy.
- Illiaca Passio: or, the Wind in the Small Gut.
- COLLICK.
- Timpanites: or, the Windy Drop∣sie.
- Arthritick, or Gouty Disease.
- Pluritis: or, Plurisie.
- Ictoritia: or Yellow Jaundice.
- Calculus Vesicae: or the Stone in the Bladder.
- Atrophia or Marasmuss: or, a Consumption without a Cough.
- Febris Hectica: or, a Consumption with a Cough.
- The Rickets.
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Apoplexy, Paralisis, Catalepsie, E∣pilepsie, Vertigo,
&c. - PALSIE.
- Spasmus: or, Convulsion.
- Eruptio Venarum: or, the Break∣ing of a Vein.
- Coryza, Catarrbus, Tussis, Asthma.
- Stranguria: or, the Strangury.
- Hystericus: or, Fits of the Mo∣ther.
- Courteous READER
- I thought to have severed the Directions how to take the Powder, from the Book, but I am advised to annex it; which I have done.
- POSTSCRIPT.
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A Catalogue of some Books Printed for
Ro∣bert Harford at theAngel inCornhill, near theRoyal Exchange.