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A62501	Pyretologia, a rational account of the cause & cure of agues with their signes diagnostick & prognostick. Also some specifick medicines prescribed for the cure of all sorts of agues; with an account of a successful method of the authors for the cure of the most tedious and dangerous quartans. Likewise some observations of cures performed by the aforesaid method. Whereunto is added a short account of the cause and cure of feavers, and the griping in the guts, agreeable to nature's rules and method of healing. Authore Rto Talbor pyretiatro.	Talbor, Robert, Sir, 1642-1681.	1672 (1672)	Wing T112; ESTC R200596	26,777	96

hands reer'd and finished but since polished and refined by the more curious wits but less industrious persons of our latter ages but were they more industrious and less witty this conjectural art of Physick would become more certain by the help of observations and experimental demonstration The art of Physick began originally either from accidental Experiment or Observations taken from the irrational Creatures as Birds Beasts and Fishes which being led by some instinct of Nature to convenient remedies for the cure of their proper Maladies have furnished Man with many wholesome remedies and medicaments Thus the virtue of Celandine in the effects of the eyes was learnt from the Swallow who hath been often observed to squeese the juice of that herb with her bill upon the blind eyes of her young by which means they gain their sight It is observed of the Dear in Candy and those parts that being wounded with a poysonous Arrow they repair immediately to Dittany an herb that grows plentifully in those Countries which by an Alexipharmick virtue expels both Arrow and Poyson According to Virgil Plutarch Pliny and others Naturalists Dictamnum genetrix Cretea carpit ab Ida Puberibus Caulem foliis flore Comantem Purpureo non illa feris incognita capris Gramina cum tergo volucres haesere sagittae Virg. Aeneid Thus englished by Mr. George Sandys With her white hand she crops from Cretan Ide The fresh-leav'd stalk with flower in Purple dy'd A soveraign herb well known to fearful Deer Whose trembling sides the winged Arrows bear The Egyptian Ibes was the Inventor of Glysters a Bird not much unlike the Stork and a great Enemy to Serpents who filling his beak with salt water and spouting it up into his guts when he was hard bound taught the world the convenience of provoking a stool that way Letting Blood we learnt from the Sea-horse in Nilus who finding himself oppressed with too much blood doth at such times come to the shore side and with a sharp reed or thorne pricks his leg then stands and bleeds some time and afterwards dips his leg in the mud which stops the bleeding and heals the wound I could insert a great many more observations from Naturalists but these are sufficient To these we must joyn that ancient custom of bringing the sick into their publick market towns where they were lodged in convenient places such as our Hospitals there being placed one or more Overseers who were sworn to take care of the sick and administer such medicines as should be prescribed by such as came to visit the sick all persons being obliged to view the sick before they acted in their own affairs who did commonly give an account to the Overseers whether they at any time had been afflicted with any of those diseases the sick laboured under and if they had by what means and remedies they were relieved and recovered which remedies were administred to the sick and if they had good success they were recorded with a Probatum By this way they in time came to have a stock of approved remedies for all known diseases and thus was the foundation of Physick laid and these Overseers took upon them the name of Empiricks or experienced men and such a one was Archagathus the first Physician we read of who was called from Peloponnesus to Rome and for his skill in healing was made a Freeman of that famous City Then our Empiricks or Protomedicks began curiously and with much industry to observe the precedent signs of a disease and the several symptomes in the beginning state and declination of every distemper and by these observations they framed their Diagnosticks and Prognosticks by which they could foresee a disease and tell the event of it With this knowledge only our Protomedicks were satisfied viz. to know a distemper and to foretel its event as whether long or short sharp or mild terminate in life or death and to know how to cure it by approved Medicines delivered them by their predecessors not troubling themselves with that which we call the rational part of Physick as to give reasons for the causes of Diseases the operation of Medicines and several such niceties which after ages dived into Then started up a second sort of Medicks which called themselves Methodists these did a little smooth and plain the former rough cast structure of the Empiricks by reducing the several diseases to general heads as to the eight principal parts viz. the head heart lungs stomach liver spleen reins womb and appropriating Medicines and Herbs to the several parts calling them Cephalicks Cordials Pectorals Stomachical Hepaticks Spleneticks Nephriticks Hystericks and to these they added Arthritick Medicines appropriated to the joynts Thus far the Methodist Then came the Dogmatists and they undertook to dive into the causes of Diseases and the reason of the various Operations of Medicines and having framed this Hypothesis of the four humours they made the Plethora or Cacochymy of those humours in the various parts of the body to cause the several diseases But for the reasons of the operation of Medicines upon these humours and their appropriation to such parts of the body they were absurd and ridiculous as because they did assimilate the form or colour of the part and humours therefore they must operate upon that part or humour they did resemble This they rendred the reason why Eye-bright was specifical to heal the distempers of the Eyes because its flower they say resembles a Birds eye elder Mushromes or Jewes Ears good against the swelling of the Glandules of the Ears Lung-wort for the Lungs Beans for the Reins and Testicles from the similitude they have to those parts so Rheubarb to purge Choller Agarick Phlegme black Hellebore Melancholly because they are of that colour they suppose the humours to be of But what rational man would be satisfied with such reasons Were it not better to tell a Patient these have been approved Medicines in those cases confirmed by the experience of many ages Others in our latter dayes styling themselves rational Physicians have rendred more plausible reasons being grounded upon Experimental Philosophy these by anatomizing the parts of Plants and Minerals know the natures of them as also the effects and constitutions of the whole body or parts not only by ordinary dissection but by a spagyrical examination and separation of those parts and the reasons grounded upon these tryals make a greater impression on our belief because they are demonstrable by some analogous Experiments Thus have I shown you Physiophilus the progress of Physick through the several ages to this present time I shall now treat something of the present state of the Practice of Physick as it stands divided between the Learned Rational Physician and the Illiterate Modern Empirick the one hath Law and Reason to warrant his Practice the other only success the one in his Practice is guided more by reason than experience the other not so much by reason as experience

Πυρετολογια A Rational Account OF THE CAUSE CURE OF AGUES With their SIGNES Diagnostick Prognostick ALSO Some specifick MEDICINES prescribed for the Cure of all sorts of AGUES With an Account of a successful Method of the Authors for the Cure of the most Tedious and Dangerous QUARTANS Likewise some OBSERVATIONS of CURES performed by the aforesaid Method Whereunto is added A short Account of the Cause and Cure of FEAVERS and the GRIPING in the GUTS agreeable to Nature's Rules and Method of HEALING Authore R TO TALBOR Pyretiatre Non multa sed multum London Printed for R. Robinson and are to be sold at his Shop near Greys-Inne Gate in Holborn 1672. To his worthy Friends B. Aylemore A. Blackwell Esquires Mr. R. Alchorn Mr. W. Thornton Citizens and the rest of those worthy persons that have been my Patients Worthy Patients and Patrons A Book sent abroad into the World is like a Ship lanched forth into the Sea It must expect not always to sail with the fair gale of judicious Censures but sometimes to meet with blustering storms raised either by the puffing blasts of Criticks breath or the envious murmurings of the ignorant From these two viz. the seeming-wise Critick and the grosly Ignorant I can expect little favour the one will cavil at the Rational part because perhaps it doth not square with his Imaginary Fancies the other will deny the Rational and Experimental parts and both will endeavour to withdraw the breath of people from it that wanting the air of Reputation it may be either becalmed by that little notice people take of it or else be stranded on the dangerous sands of prejudice I have therefore chosen you my Patrons whose known Reputation is sufficient to check the insolence of any that shall contradict or deny what your selves can testifie of your own knowledge and experience And I desire that your mouthes may only speak my Actions and let the world from them read my Merits From whom I request nothing more than a kind acceptance of that which is intended for a general good By him who is ever ready to serve his Country and his Friends R. Talbor To the Reader WHen I first began the study and practice of Physick amongst other Distempers incident to humane Bodies I met with a Quartan Ague a disease that seem'd to me the ne plus ultra of Physick being commonly call'd Ludibrium opprobrium Medicorum folly and derision of my Profession did so exasperate my spirit that I was resolved to do what study or industry could perform to find out a certain method for the cure of this unruly distemper In order thereto I first dived into the cause of it and to that end read most Authors that have writ on this subject but I could find no more satisfaction from them than I can in Philosophy from that odd solution by occult qualities I considered then there was no other way to satisfie my desire but by that good old way observation and experiment To this purpose I planted my self in Essex near to the Sea side in a place where Agues are the expidemical diseases where you will find but few persons but either are or have been afflicted with a tedious Quartan In this place I lived some years making the best use of my time I could for the improving my knowledge curiously observing all Symptoms Diagnosticks and Prognosticks by which observations and the assistance of my reason God blessing my endeavours I have attained to a perfect knowledge of the cure of the most inveterate and pertinacious Agues and can inform a patient to a day when I will remove the fits and what method I will proceed in with him though to several persons according to their several constitutions and other complicated diseases I use different methods If our Physicians would use the Primitive way of the Egyptians apply themselves to the study of some one disease they would in a short time bring this noble Science to great perfection but idleness hath so possest this age that most of us care for no more than a little smattering of every thing As you accept these my Primitiae you encourage him to proceed Who is Yours and his Countries Friend R. Talbor To his Friend the Author on his Πυρετολογια THe Learned Author in a generous Fit T' oblige his Country hath of Agues Writ Physicians now shall be reproacht no more Nor Essex shake with Agues as before Since certain health salutes her sickly shoar Philosophers spend oyle and time in vain And no Minerva issues from their brain Whilst here a general good accrues to all Like the disease 't is Epidemical Man though the lesser world does far surpass All that's i th' greater world or ever was Whilst he these earthly gods obliges thus He shall be styl'd an Esculapius J. D. The Introduction to the Discourse of Agues MAN being subject to as many and more distempers than his famous structure can boast variety of parts all the faculties of his soul have been continually employed to find out Remedies for the preservation and restauration of his decaying body Now the first man Adam had a perfect knowledge of the virtues of all Plants Minerals or Animals but whether it was immediately dictated to him by the Creator I shall not here argue or whether their innate vertues were engraven upon the front or superficies of every creature in those lines we see on Plants c. which I believe are not flourishes a-la-vole of natures Pen but fair characters legible to our forefather Adam and some few of his posterity But since the Fall Soul and Body have deviated from their first perfection all the faculties of the Soul are depraved the Memory is subject to fail the Judgement given to erre and the Will often known to rebel and become a voluntary slave to passion so is his Body subject to so many infirmities that he that shall consider upon what slender filaments the life of man depends will have greater cause to admire at the Providence of the Creator seen in the preservation of Man than at his Wisdome known in his Creation though both of them surpass the scale of our reason for our Reason being fallen from its primitive purity is as much confused as our Languages now tot homines tot sententiae tot rationes Reason is at best but the harmony or musical sound of a well tuned Hypothesis wherewith the fancy is delighted and it suffers the same fate with our common Musick for as every tune delights not every ear so every reason pleases not every fancy We have nothing certain in Physick or Philosophy but Mathematical and Experimental Demonstration and what we have learnt in either Science hath been by industrious Observations and Experiments Thus by the industrious toils and labours of those Primitive Heroes the ancient Empiricks in their observations and experiments the foundation of this famous structure of Physick was laid and in some ages by the same

the Pores of the skin or by the Intestines and according to your observation assist her either with proper Diaphoreticks such as Pulvis ex chelis cancrorum compositus cum Rad. contrayervae serpentariae Or else with a lenitive Purge such as followeth viz. ℞ Fol. endiviae cichorei ana pj. coquantur in Aquae font ℥ vj. ad ℥ iv postea add Rhabarbari electiʒij sennae mundataeʒj Zinziberis ℈ j. sam Anisiʒss infundantur per noctem mane colentur colaturae adde syr Rosarum solutiv ʒvj misce fiat potio The same Potion or another may be afterwards repeated as occasion serves SECT VII Of the method of curing malignant Fevers IF you are consulted in time first clear the stomach with Oxymel seillitic ℥ iij. vel ℥ iv After its operation is ended give this Cordial viz. ℞ Aquae cardui benedicti ℥ iij. corallii praeparati boli armenii ana ℈ j. diascordiiʒss syr Garyophyllorum ℥ j. misce fiat potio cordialis Then let the Patient drink of this following Julip every three hours viz. ℞ Cornu cervi usti ℥ j. Rad. Scorzonerae ℥ ss Rad. Contrayervae Serpentariae anaʒiss Lujulae M. j. coquantur in Aquae fontanae Lb. iv ad Lb. ij colaturae adde syrrup melissae Garyophyllorum ana ℥ j. confectionis de Hyacintho elect de sassafrâ anaʒij misce fiat Julapium de quo capiat Cochlear quatuor tertiâ quavis borâ tepide Once in two hours let the Patient take a spoonful of this Cordial viz. ℞ Aquae melissae Scordii ana ℥ iij. Aquae Pezoardicae ℥ j. syr Garyophyll ℥ iss confectionis de Hyacinth ʒij corallii perlarum praeparat ana ℈ j. misce fiat Julapium cordiale de quo capiat cochlear j. secundâ quavis borâ tepide If violent Symptoms appear apply blisters to the Neck Wrists and Anckles Pigeons or Herrings to the Feet Chickens split to the Heart and Stomach Heighten your Cordials as the disease encreaseth and change them often in these distempers Administer nothing cold either actually or potentially when you see signs of concoction you may administer a gentle Purge such as that before prescribed in putrid Fevers Thus have I given you Physiophilus that method which I have used with extraordinary success some years but except there be judgment and experience joined with it viz. to know a disease and what doses according to the several ages and constitutions of Patients when to administer and apply Remedies the best methods and medicines are used in vain SECT VIII A discourse of the disease called the Griping of the Guts THere hath appeared Physiophilus amongst many other diseases a strange Monster called the Scurvy acting its part upon the stage of this little world in various shapes counterfeiting the guise of most other diseases sometimes it consumes by little and little as it were grating and crumbling the body into the grave then again it rends and distracts separating the union of body and soul suddenly puffing out the lamp of life sometimes it is couchant other times rampant so alternately chronick and acute But amongst the many appearances of this Protean disease there is none more eminently atrocious than this termed the Griping of the Guts and though by some it may be accounted a substantial disease it appears to my reason to be only a product or an effect of a virulent scorbutick root Of the signs Diagnostick of the Griping of the Guts It seizeth the Patient with wringing gripes usually and oftentimes with intolerable racking and convulsive pains some have only a flux downward others evacuate both by vomit and stool they are accompanied with a Fever manifest or hidden giddiness great pains in the Head Drowsiness Phrensies tedious Watchings weakness of the Limbs difficult breathing a weak and irregular Pulse pains in the sides and loins fluxes of blood oppression at the stomach the urine for the most part like healthy persons but sometimes it is thick and troubled oftentimes spots appear of a reddish or purple colour being small and lying deep in the flesh Prognosticks in the Griping of the Guts If a Fever with other bad symptoms as Lipothymie Convulsion Phrensies c. be joined with these griping pains the patient generally miscarries except the virulent Ichor be transmitted by large sweats or more gentle breathings with eruptions of Pustules Spots or red Blotches If these malignant Gripes joined with a Fever invade any that have been debilitated by a long infirmity or intemperate persons the ferment of whose stomach is diluted and depraved the case is dangerous Sometimes it happens that the Torminous matter is translated into the limbs whereupon Palsie Rheumatismus or Gowt happen to the preservation of life If none of these symptoms appear the Patient recovers with little help of proper Remedies but otherwise not without great care and industry annexed with medicines of some force and energy SECT IX Of the cause of the Griping of the Guts IT s Cause may be supposed Physiophilus from an exorbitant acidity of the stomachs Ferment occasioned from the ill disposition of the Air Diet Contagion or Hereditary constitution By this luxuriant exorbitancy of the stomachs Ferment the food dissolved and digested is converted into a juice of the same sharp and corroding nature and resisting the alteration and dulcoration designed by the Ferment implanted in the intestins by its acrimony frets extimulates and excites the expulsive faculty of those parts colliquating the nitrous juices turning them into an acid fretting and vexatious Ichor bringing a damp upon the spirits and if not timely prevented totally extinguishing them SECT X. Of the method of curing the Griping of the Guts IF consulted in time a gentle Vomit will be necessary such as Oxymel scilliticum from ℥ i. to ℥ iv after that some proper Diaphoretick such as Pulvis ex chelis cancrorum compositus lapis contrayervae prepared Pearl and Coral these do dulcorate acid and corroding juices and relieve nature by throwing out the offending humours per poros cutis Let the Patient drink Julips made of Cornu cervi ust Rad. scorzonerae contrayervae serpentariae c. Administer Cordials made of spirit of Juniper Scurvy-grass Harts-horn with proper Sytrups Elixir proprietatis Par●…si Spirit of Tartar Tincture of Coral Haematitis or Blood-stone proper chalybiate Medicines may be used at convensent times as the judicious Physician shall find occasion The Diet may be the same prescribed in malignant Fevers Let this short discourse suffice at present Physiophilus as occasion offers and acceptance answers I shall be ready to serve you and my Country to the utmost of my power Si quid scis rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum From my dwelling next door to Grey's-Inn-gate in Holbourn July the 14th 1672. ERRATA IN the Epistle to the Reader line ult for yours read your pag. 34. lin 1. for Halecium read Halecum lin 4. read cataplasma lin 12. read extracti lin penult read Helmontii pag. 33. lin 13. read conservae FINIS The Contents THe Introduction to the Discourse of Agues Page 1. CAP. I. Of the Use and Offices of the Spleen and Stomach p. 15. CAP. II. A discourse of the cause of intermitting Fevers or Agues p. 19. CAP. III. Of the Diagnostick signes of intermitting Fevers or Agues p. 23. CAP. IV. Of the Prognosticks in Agues p. 27. CAP. V. Of the several Remedies used for the cure of Agues p. 31. CAP. VI. Of Charms used for the Cure of Agues how they operate with the dangerous consequences that have attended them p. 35. CAP. VII The Authors particular Method of curing all sorts of Agues p. 42. CAP. VIII Of the proper diet to be observed by such as have Agues and during my method of curing Agues p. 45. CAP. IX Observations of this successful method in some long tedious Quartans complicated with other Chronick diseases p. 47. Appendix SECT I. NAtures method in the time of sickness and by what means she opposeth her enemies p. 54. SECT II. Natures several indications in chronick and acute diseases according to which the Physician ought to frame his method of cure p. 56. SECT III. A discourse of the Cause and Cure of continuing Fevers p. 60. SECT IV. A discourse of the cause of Fevers p. 63. SECT V. Of proper Diet to be observed in Fevers p. 66. SECT VI. Of the method of curing putrid Fevers p. 68. SECT VII Of the method of curing malignant Fevers p. 70. SECT VIII A discourse of the disease called the Griping in the Guts p. 72. SECT IX Of the Cause of the Griping in the Guts p. 75. SECT X. Of the method of curing the Griping of the Guts p. 76.