The "De morbo quem gallicum nuncupant" (1497) of Coradinus Gilinus / by Cyril C. Barnard.

  • Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert.
Date:
1930
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Credit: The "De morbo quem gallicum nuncupant" (1497) of Coradinus Gilinus / by Cyril C. Barnard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 (III) Sleep and Waking. Sleep in the daytime is not good, especially when the patient has slept for six or seven hours during the night. Coitus is very harmful except in good-com- plexioned young patients fairly well accustomed to it, in which case a little is not so injurious. . . i ,,j) y,f [JJ f I !• f ' f ’ ' (IV) Affections of the Mind. Affections of the mind such as anger and sorrow are bad. (V) Motion & Rest. A little exercise before meals is moderately beneficial. 2. Venesection & Purgation. Concerning the second method of treatment, I recommend blood to be let at the commencement from the vena communis, even in a very plethoric body, and especially in women from the vena saphena, provided age and temperament allow it; but it must not be too plentiful. Let physicians give great heed to this point, for I have frequently seen many [the worse] as a result of copious bloodletting, just as also happens in leprosy. If it seem fit, the venesection can be repeated either from the v. communis or v. basilica of the right side: then let some of the following medicine be drunk: IC Floris Cassiae 3 V. Conf. Hamech 3 iij. Dec. Fructuum aut Inf. Sennae § iij. If he cannot take the above medicine let the patient take instead of it the following pills, viz: 1^ Pil. Aggregativum ) tt • 't- / aa 3 ss. h umi Terrae V 0 Ft. pil. vij & plus & minus ut medico videbitur. Afterwards let this syrup be employed: Syr. Violati ) Syr. Fumi Terrae ' aa Syr. Epithymi \