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Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague, with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.

Hancocke, John, -1728

Date:: 1724

Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague, with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$where he treats of the Difeafes of Infants, and Waldfchmidt in feveral places of his Book. Baglivi juft mentions it, but refers to Dr. Willis. They all agree, that it is feldom cured by Phyficians *5 that old Women and Mounte* banks are oftner confulted that this Difeafe rather goes off of it felf, than is cured. Dr. Sydenham calls it, Malum pertinacijfimum & fere infuperable. A moft ftubborn, and com¬ monly unconquerable incurable Difeafe! They own it is dangerous in its confe- quence, though not commonly mortal in it lelf; that it is often the caufe of Ruptures, coughing up Blood, Inclination to a Con- fumption. Cachexies, &c. They think it comes from a {harp acid Lympha, and per¬ haps with a Mixture of a nitrous Salt from the Air. ’Tis plain, it is at fometimes as Epidemical as the Small Pox, and Iqfedious like that, and commonly runs through a Fa¬ mily of little Children, and they generally have it but once. I rather think it comes as other {harp Defluxions and Colds do, from the flopping of the Pores of the Skin, by cold North Winds in the Spring, or too moilt Air in the x\utumn, for it feldom comes in Summer. The confequence of this is the worfe in Children, than Perlons of Age, from the loofe and weak Texture of their Blood, they being more irregular in their Diet, &c. than older People, ^ They$