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  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • Pyretologia : a rational account of the cause & cure of agues, with their signes, diagnostick & prognostick.
  • The expert phisician : learnedly treating of all agues and feavers ... / translated into English by B. W[eeks].
  • The expert phisician : learnedly treating of all agues and feavers ... / translated into English by B. W[eeks].
  • The King : in consideration of the rare and uncommon cures performed by Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, on many thousands of his loving subjects who have been grievously afflicted with the rheumatism, stone and gravel, cholick, agues and fevers, coughs, colds, pains in the limbs, &c.
  • To all such as are used (or hereafter may have occasion) to take Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops ... : for curing, and immediately giving relief in all fevers, agues, rheumatism, gout, stone, gravel, asthmas, colds, coughs, and pains in the breast, limbs, and joints ... / B. Okell, W. and Cluer Dicey.
  • The English remedy: or, Talbor's wonderful secret, for cureing [sic] of agues and feavers / Sold by the author Sir Robert Talbor, to the Most Christian King, and since his death, ordered by His Majesty to be published in French [with observations by A. d'Aquin] ... And now translated into English. [Anon].
  • The English remedy: or, Talbor's wonderful secret, for cureing [sic] of agues and feavers / Sold by the author Sir Robert Talbor, to the Most Christian King, and since his death, ordered by His Majesty to be published in French [with observations by A. d'Aquin] ... And now translated into English. [Anon].
  • Every man his own doctor. In two parts. Shewing I. How every one may know his own constitution and complection, by certain signs. Also the nature and faculties of all food as well meats, as drinks ... The second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox ... and obstructions, agues. Shewing their causes and signs ... and perfect cure / [John Archer].
  • De succo pancreatico: or a physical and anatomical treatise of the nature and office of the pancreatick juice shewing its generation in the body, what diseases arise by its vitiation : from whence in particular, by plain and familiar examples, is accurately demonstrated, the causes and cures of agues, or intermitting feavers, hitherto so difficult and uncertain, with sundry other things of worthy note / written by D. Reg. de Graaf ... ; and translated by Christopher Pack.
  • Tanacetum cinerariifolium Sch.Blp. Asteraceae Dalmation chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, Pellitory, Tansy. Distribution: Balkans. Source of the insecticides called pyrethrins. The Physicians of Myddfai in the 13th century used it for toothache. Gerard called it Pyrethrum officinare, Pellitorie of Spain but mentions no insecticidal use, mostly for 'palsies', agues, epilepsy, headaches, to induce salivation, and applied to the skin, to induce sweating. He advised surgeons to use it to make a cream against the Morbum Neopolitanum [syphilis]. However he also describes Tanacetum or Tansy quite separately.. Quincy (1718) gave the same uses
  • Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever & ague and all malarial disorders / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
  • Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever & ague and all malarial disorders / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
  • One dozen Dr. Chilton's Permanent Fever and Ague Cure.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure all malarial disorders / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure all malarial disorders / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • Punica granatum L. Lythraceae Pomegranate, granatum malum, balustines. Distribution: E. Mediterranean to Himalayas. The Pomegranate is in the centre of the Arms of the Royal College of Physicians, perhaps for its use in cooling, and therefore for fevers. However it was the sour pomegranate that would have been used as Dioscorides says the sweet ones are unfit for use in agues. Culpeper (1650) makes no mention of the fruit, but says of the flowers ‘... they stop fluxes and the Terms in women.’ In the Complete Herbal and English Physician (1826) he says the fruit ‘... has the same general qualities as other acid fruits.’ Of the flowers he says (among other properties) that ‘A strong infusion of these cures ulcers in the mouth and throat, and fastens loose teeth.’ Gerard (1633) says that the cravings of pregnant women can be abolished with the juice, and perhaps it was scurvy which was being treated effectively when he reports that the juice was very effective against splitting of blood and for loose teeth. The dwarf form of this species, Punica granatum var. nana has fruits no more than 3cm across. Pomegranate bark can only be sold by registered pharmacies in the UK and used to be used as a vermifuge, with the secondary use that the tincture made from it doubled as a permanent ink. In South Africa the fruit rind is used for diarrhoea and stomach ache, and the bark as a vermifuge, but undesirable side effects make this dangerous. It is reported to be effective against fevers, as a diuretic, to lower blood sugar and to be both antibacterial and antiviral (van Wyk, 2000). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.