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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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