Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].

  • Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675
Date:
1679-1681
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Credit: Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'Page. The dyfcrafe of the Blo§d ^ cauje of Sweating. 91 How Spirits of Blood are gotten. 102 How the Blood and Spirits are ajfeSted by the Air. 107 How the Blood offends when too little enkindledy and when too much. 155 How the Blood is to he helped when too firi^f or too loof ? in i ts joynting or compofition. 116 How the Blood is to he defended from putrefabiion. ib. How its accenfwn is to he incredfed. 12 i How to allay its too great enkindling^ 122 The Blood not infehled by Opiats. 138 holus purging. 53 JDiaphoretical. 97)99 To caufe Sleep. 153 Bovins hi.s Hercules. 3 5 ///iEpicineMenftruum. 36 Bowels fometimes the caufe of fympathickjTomiting. 23 Box-, Spirits andExtraUs of Box how made. 103 •diac'k^ afeV.*) * A'Icdicines, lee Cordialsi Pafftons and their Remedies. 124 Catharticks how different from vomiting Medicines. ^5 How Catharticks bring away the Contents of the Vilcera. 44 How Catharticks workjn a liquid, and how in a fo- lid form. ib. And how now on thefe parts, and now on thofe. ib. That their ablion is within the Tentrkle. 45 How they operate in Duodenum and fmallGuts. ib. How on the Bdary andPancreatickPore. 46 How on f/;cGlandula’s and mouths of the Arteries. ib. How on the Blood ^ nervous Juice , and the folid parts. ib. Three degrees of Cathartick^operation. 47 Catharticks operate not by attraUion or elebiion. ib. The difference andreafon of their operation. 47,48 A double faculty of Catharticks. 50 By what elementary Particles they depend. ib. From what their irritative faculty proceeds. ib. The Cathartick^force of a Medicine from Sulphur. ib. How the more firong Catharticks work. ib. The forms of Catharticks, y i Scarce any Catharticks to he had out of Minerals, ib^ The rcafon of it. ib. Cathartickt numhred. 5^752 Cathartieks out of Hgetahles, that want little chymi- ‘ eal preparation. T- 52 Tpeir fever aLForms. ’ ^5)53 In Potions, Pills, BoIus’s, Poudersi 5 3 Cathart^k-Flebluar0ts.^ ib. iCathqKtiekTMets-i-MorfcIs, Wine and Ale t 54 154 15s 106 ib. 107 108 Page. Choler and the pancreatick Juice a caufe of excretory motion. 44 Chylous Mafs carried forth of theVentrickandln- tef ines by purging Medicines. 42 Coats of the Ventricle, fee Ventricle. Of the Jntefines, fee Inteflints. r fT a ‘ effects and the reafon of it. ojjee rink ^ benefits and incommodities. Cold, of catching Cold. Adefeription of that Affebiion* The Reafon of it. The Symptoms of this Difeafe. In what the predifpofttion of this difeafe confi^s. ib. Its Cure. 109 Colon inflamed caufeth the Jliack^Paffion. 15 Convulfions Fmetickjhow they fir up the Spirits: 20 Cordials or Alexiterian Medicines. 114 How they are of common ufie. ib. Their vulgar Attributes. ib. They act not properly on the Heart. . ib. How they abb on the Blood and Spirits. 11 ^ What fort of Cordials are fit to amend the two cold joynting of the Blood. nj Of Cordials indued with a volatile Salt and others with a petrifying Salt. ib. Of Cordials endued with a fluid,fixed, and a nitrous Salt. 118 How thefe Cordials being in the Vmtricle, operate on the Blood. 11 g Of Cordials refpcbling the Animal Spirits. ib. They are of a twofold kind. 119, i lo The fever al kinds& forms ofCor dials. 121,12 2,12 3 Of fuch as increafe the accenfion of the Blood. 121 The abufe of Cordials. ^ ib. Cordials that allay the too great heat of the Blood. 12Z Such as open the too flribt joynting of the Blood, ib*. Sueh as hinder the Blood from putrefablion, being loofe in its joynting. 123 Cramps, how Winds in Cramps are begotten. 42 Explaned. 130 Crocus Metallorum its preparation, and the reafon of its Procefs. 31 Curatory Antidotes. 124 D. 86 97 I 250 Decoblion to thicken the Blood. Dlaphoretical. Dejign of the whole Work. Diacodiats. Diabetes, or the Piffing Evil the cure of it 79,85,86,87 Not formerly known or rarely and its defeription. 9 7 The caufe of the Diabetes. 80 The conjunbl Caufe chiefly in the Blood. ib; Sometimes in the Reins. ib. The procatartickor remote Caufe ofthe Diabetes. 81 How it differs from the Drop fie. 82 Its evident Caufes. ib. The ^explication of fome notable fymptoms of this Difeafe. 83 Prog.^