Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths ... To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / [Sir John Floyer].

  • Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734
Date:
1725
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Credit: Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths ... To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / [Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a moift Temper, preterves from old Age, ac¬ cording to the old Rule, Qui maxime hit- mdit maxime long&vi: An Inequality of Temper in fome Parts depends on Defluxions, Inflammations, Pains, fuch are Raucedo, Gravedo, or Rheu- matifra; an ill ufe of the Non-naturals, to the Stomach, Head, Skin, alters the natural Tempers by Defluxions, but they do not make the Temper humid, or to want drying Medicines* _ The Tartareous Diet of Fruits, the mu¬ cilaginous, and farinaceous, or leguminous, and oily and fat Taftes are difficultly dige- fted by old Men. The Fibres of Beef, Swine’s Flefh, old Creatures, are tough and hard of Digeftion. Styptick red Wines ar© not fo agreeable as Sack. From the Salt and vifeid Humours old Men have Scales, itching, Vitiligo in their Skin, and Alopecia, Strangury from the Salt Urine, and run¬ ning Pains in the Limbs, and the Atrophy of their Bodies, Gout, Stone, Diarrhaa, fharp Catarrhs, Wrinkles, and Drynefs in the Skin. Obftru&ions are made on the Liver, Spleen, Glands, by flimy crude Chyle and its Lymph a; and theie produce Jaundice, Swel¬ ling of the Glands, Stoppage in the Kidneys. From vifeid fizy Humours all Inflammati¬ ons, Pleurify, Angina, Peripneumonia, Apo¬ plexy, Pally, Head-Aches, are produced. If