Dr. Warren's epistle to his friend, of the method and manner of curing the late raging fevers, and of the danger, uncertainty, and unwholesomeness of the Jesuit's bark / faithfully translated ... from the Latin ... by Maurice Shelton ... To which are added curious and useful notes, and a short dedicatory letter to the Doctor, by the same.

  • Warren, Martin J.
Date:
1733
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Credit: Dr. Warren's epistle to his friend, of the method and manner of curing the late raging fevers, and of the danger, uncertainty, and unwholesomeness of the Jesuit's bark / faithfully translated ... from the Latin ... by Maurice Shelton ... To which are added curious and useful notes, and a short dedicatory letter to the Doctor, by the same. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    () follow a Guide, not Man. But lines you are fo much fwayed by the Authority of the An¬ cients in point oi Phylick, go to Sydenham, who alone has wrote as much about Fevers as all of them put together. You will find there, that Fie made ufe of the lame Method of Cure I pradtife now. (i) I perceive both from the Signs of a laud¬ able Separation in the Urine, and alfo from a plain Remiffton of all the Symptoms, that it is fit to give a Purging-/Y/Azz, to evacuate the Sediment, put off-, here and there, by the fore¬ going Fermentation; and unlefs it be done time¬ ly, there is danger left it ffould return into the Mafs of Blood, and fo caufe a Relapfe; or may, by (i) The 64th and 65th Pages. the 12 moft fubtle Wits of the World. Ids faid he fled fromRomz in Plague-Time, without daring to trufi to the Remedies of his Art, and fome add, that he declared himfelf an Enemy againft the Jews and Chriitians, and accufed them of believing very dijficult things, without any Demonflration. But he himfelf was fome time after forced to leave Rome, upon an Accufation that he cured by Magick ; becaufe he had fornetimes the good fortune to flop dange¬ rous Defluxions by Bleedings and Curing the Falling- Sicknefs by hanging a Peony-Root about the Sick-P erforf s Neck. He died in the 70th Tear of his Age, and as fome fayy in the lyotb. ('Co.h lierV Great Hifloricaf &c. DiAwnary.)