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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42185	[The oracle for the sick.]	Groeneveldt, Jan, 1647?-1710?.	1685 (1685)	Wing G2063A; ESTC R223692	26,954	76

least apprehensive of any danger they are in Which fatal Accidents may henceforth in a great measure be avoided Forasmuch as one shall meet with none so ignorant provided they can but read who may not be capable of giving sufficient instructions to Us concerning the Estate of the absent Patient and concerning his Sickness by the sole use of this Book § III. Those same sick Persons who in the Countrey and places remote are under Chirurgeons and Apothecaries hands capable of stating their Case and thereby of consulting Physicians about their Diseases will be much better attended whilst not any one Circumstance requisite to the entire and perfect knowledge of their Disease is forgot It being notorious that most of the great faults which are committed in the management of the Sick procede from this that their Diseases are not well known one being taken for another And seeing that Physick is not an Art of Divination as the ignorant Vulgar perswade themselves too much Circumspection cannot be used in stating the Case aright to Physicians And this will be much better done when they that send have their instructions in Print the reading whereof will lead them as by the hand to the observing all things worth consideration which might otherwise easily slip their Memory So that those who otherwise would have been negligent in their Relation in order to have Advice from Physicians cannot now be so any longer for as much as they are obliged to note or make mention of each particular Head in the Book § IV. And even Physicians themselves of whom Advice is taken being absent must of necessity by this Method be more exact in their knowledge and judgment of Diseases and in prescribing their Remedies For they as they are obliged returning their Advice with this Book wherein the sick Party and the Disease are drawn to the Life and described the defects of their Prescriptions if any there are will be far more evident As faults in Limning are best discovered when the Piece and the Original are both in view or when the Features of the absent Party are well known to us Such will be the state of the sick delineated by this Invention by means whereof Persons skilled in the Art of Physick may judge of the Abilities of that Physician who gave his Advice Which can never be done in the way Men practise prescribing Piece-meal wherein a Man can only discern whether the Prescript be well dosed and possibly whether it came from a Physician experienced in the Practice of his Art but not whether it be prescribed pertinently nor whether it be proper for the Patient and the Disease which is the principal thing So that every Physician considering what it will conduce to his Honour though now perhaps he is conducted by Conscience alone will moreover be concerned in reference to his Reputation Which will serve for a double Incitement to encourage and a double Obligation to bind him firm to his utmost Endeavour § V. Physicians that have Persons of Quality under their hand and such as of whom it will be of import to remark from time to time yea several times a day the state of their Sickness will here also find a notable ease to their Memory and a great Abridgment For having as many Books as they will mark at divers times they can set down in each of these Books the then present State of their Patient after the manner of Astronomers who set down from time to time the State of the Heavens upon Paper which State would otherwise slip out of their mind and hinder the judgment that they would make As on the contrary these different States of their patient will facilitate the consequences which they will draw from comparing them so as to gather the Crises and the other Movements of Nature which they have to do withal § VI. There are several dishonourable Diseases which hinder the Sick from discovering themselves and they by this Bashfulness render themselves incurable Whereas by this Book any one may conceal his or her Name which contributes nothing to the cure of Diseases and may receive good and salutary Advice § VII And whereas Seeing is the quickest and most comprehensive of all the Senses here one will at once have in Sight a multitude of Questions which it would be tedious to hear asked and answered And one may fix on what things are considerable passing by such things as to the Party seem worthy of little or no consideration Now you have seen some of the advantages of this Book the Use of it will discover to you the rest § VIII We need not here trouble our selves at all to answer those that take upon them to decry the Inventions of others and say that a man cannot comprehend in one Book an infinite number of Circumstances a diverse Combination whereof varies the Case since the Letters of an Alphabet alone are sufficient to describe infinite Volumes And when Physicians Chirurgeons and Apothecaries and in their absence other Persons who shall send or come to us or others to ask Advice concerning a Distemper do find matters extraordinary in it nothing will hinder but they may add them since Treatises of Nature do admit Discourses of Monsters § IX Little also can they hurt us who tell us this Invention is not our own May they not as well reproach Galen who took his Doctrin from Hippocrates and he from others It being no slight matter to put things in Order and to introduce a new Use of them But leaving Vain-glory to others we shall reckon it sufficient that several Persons do receive benefit without regard whence it comes And possibly even they that would have something of Novelty might be the first in quarrelling upon that very account § X. Others may find the Reading of this Work troublesome and disagreeable because they may judge it as it is void altogether of Embellishment and without Affectation when they perhaps may be desirous of florid Language Because they know not that height of Expression is no more proper for instructing than Flowers are for nourishment and since we intend the profit of all Mankind indifferently which is composed for the greater share of people who have not leisure for these things our manner of Discourse must be accommodated to their Capacitie's which will not prove useless to the Intelligent as the more exalted Terms of our Art would be to the less knowing § XI Some will also think it strange that we make an Enumeration so exact of things from which we may gather Indications possibly because they behave themselves so little after this manner in their Consultations But let such Men know this that they cannot with too much Circumspection treat the Almightie's Master-piece Moreover the things which super-abound being not at all bad such as have a mind to make use of this Book may leave what they will and mark nothing but what they shall find pertinent to their Design § XII They

she is not bound in his or her Body or is Costive or seldome goes to Stool but when he or she takes a Clyster Hath taken a Vomit in this sickness once twice or thrice and brought up Choler or Water Sheer Yellow Green and finds him or her self worse or better He or she hath been bled in the Arm 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 times in the Foot or at the haemorhoid Veins 1 2 3 4 times the blood was very good or bad at the first bleedings or pottingers the blood was very good or bad at the last bleedings or pottingers He or she hath been purged 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 times and finds him or her self worse or better This Book was sent for Advice at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 of the Clock and half a quarter a quarter half or three quarters of an hour before or after Noon or just at the first or last minute of the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 day of January February March April May June July August September October November December In the year 1686 1687 1688 1689 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707. Behold here be the principal Remarks that are requisite to be made upon the Sick and upon their Diseases which are not here named because there is much more Hazard in naming of Diseases right than there is Ease which is the thing we have industriously designed for all sorts of persons These Remarks also may be of service to people in health whereby to ask Advice how they may preserve their health Not to mention several other curious Uses of this Book as it may serve for a Table to take the Physiognomy of an absent Person by But to comprize all the circumstances of any one Subject besides that it would be very tedious so men rarely arrive at that excellency as to have the first Editions of their Books quite perfect It may sufsice that these Remarks are such as are ordinarily made by the best Physicians in Consultation and that they are sufficient for the knowledge of Diseases Which may serve for an Answer to the Censorious who may blame this Work for having said too little As for those that find too much they may leave something yea if they please they may content themselves with the following Table But whether the Patient be rich or poor the Use of this Book will be serviceable to either indifferently Now come the Criticks who say that nothing is more easie than this Invention and they say no more than what has been said in all Ages against the bravest Inventions whose excellence consists in this that they are found easie when once discovered these same Fellows thinking they could have done as much But let them have a care that the easiness of our Enterprize turn not to their Discommendation forasmuch as they have taken no pains in a thing so easie and a thing which by Experience hath been and day after day will be further acknowledged so beneficial to Humane Kind FINIS ADVERTISEMENT VVHereas the five last Chapters of this Book are Chirurgical our Intent therein is only to give Advice and to leave the manual Operation wholly to Chirurgeons For since an external Tumour oft-times upon its recess causeth internal Diseases and again since Fevers are often attended with Abscesses in some external Part a Physician 's and a Chirurgeon's mutual Assistence is often necessary to a Patient And since a symptomatick Fever does ever attend considerable hurts done by Violence in every such Case Medical advice ought to be joined with manual Operation Considering therefore that several Cases cannot be managed aright without the knowledg of these things we have so far as aforesaid insisted upon them Nor are we insensible what injuries the Chirurgeons that serviceable Order of Men but Patients especially do daily suffer from Pretenders in this kind But we will not so much as breathe a Vein leaving as we said all Chirurgeons business to whom it properly belongs To all Apothecaries also who transgress not the limits of their Calling and consequently neglect not their business we are ready to send our Prescripts THE TABLE Of the Book being an easy way to represent an absent Patient's case to Physicians Which may serve instead of the Book it self marking with a Pen or Pencil the Signs and Accidents that appear in the Sick Person for whom Advice is desired They that would be more exact must have recourse to the Book A. AGE of the Sick or of the Sickness 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 25 28 30 31 40 42 45 49 50 55 56 60 63 65 70 75 77 Years Months Weeks Days or thereabout Page 22. Afterburden stuck or came away whole or torn p. 42. l. 12. Ague single double quotidian tertian quartan p. 23. Air native or not exposed or not exposed to the Sun or Wind p. 19. l. 27. Almonds of the Ears down p. 33. l. 17. Appetite craving moderate small disordered p. 41. l. 11. B. BALD p. 18. l. 27. Barrenness p. 43. l. 7. Beating of the Heart p. 34. l. 3. Belching p. 32. l. 28. Belly tight hard soft loose or costive p 28. l. 1. Benefits of Nature in or out of order coming before or after their time red pale with or without smarting in a great little or moderate quantity continually or now and then quite stopt p. 40. l. 10. Bite of an Animal venemous or not venemous p. 48. l. 7. Blear-Ey'd p. 31. l 5. Bleeding at the Nose in a great or little quantity often or seldom p. 29. l. 21. At the Mouth by Cough or Vomit with or without Pain p. 29. l. 24. at the Fundament going or not going to Stool mingled or not mingled with the Excrements p. 29. l. 28. Blind p. 31. l. 16. Blows the Nose little much or not at all lately or always p. 32. l. 3. Bone broken p. 51. l. 5. out of joint p. 52. l. 2. Born of a Father and Mother of a long or short Life Sickly or Healthy p 17. l. 9. Brests large midling or little hard or soft increasing or decreasing p. 43. l. 9. Brought to Bed in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Days p. 41. l. 26 before her time at 4 5 6 8 Months p. 41. l. 27. Bruising great or little p. 47. l. 26. Burn p. 49. l. 11. C CALLUS p. 51. l. 20. Carnosity in the Passage of the Yard p. 39. l. 6. Chapping and rawness of the Tongue p. 32. l. 10. Cheeks full hanging down flat hollow or middling p 18. l. 19. Chest full narrow middling p. 18. 24. Chillness great or little p. 23. l. 6. Chin long short middling round or dimpled p. 18. l. 20. Coffee p. 20. l. 15. Coldness of the