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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61146	Observations on fevers and febrifuges. Written in French by Monsieur Spon, one of the most eminent physicians of Lyons; upon occasion of reading a book entituled, The discovery of the admirable English remedy. Now made English, by J. Berrie	Spon, Issac, 1647-1685.; Berrie, J.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5019; ESTC R219131	25,424	122

then the Waters which abound in Niter meeting with a mass of Bloud very sulphurous and inflamed will not fail to raise very impetuous motions and to change an Intermitting Fever into a most acute Continual and so reduce the Patient to the last extremity as may be seen every day in those who neglect the Advice of an able Physician 16. Whether Theriaca Orvietan and such-like cure Fevers It may happen that Bodies that have been well prepared by bleeding purging and other means wanting strength and vigour have been holpen by a dose of Theriaca or other hot Compositions which subtilize the humours But as People give these Remedies without indication or method it happens oftentimes that the Bloud is thereby rendred more apt to serment which increases Thirst Head-ach and the Fever it self There are some who cure a Quartain when it is inveterate by rubling the back-bone with Theriaca and Aquâ Vitae which subtilizes the Bloud and helps to dissipate the Ferment by Transspiration But for the most part stronger Machines are required to subdue an Enemy so pertinatious 17. How can Fear cure a Quartain Some have been known to be cured of a Quartain by a sudden fear even when they were shivering in their cold Fit 'T is reported that Henry the Fourth cured one on this manner He had taken a Castle wherein he found a Gentleman in a Fit of a Quartain Ague the King made as if he had been in great anger and looking upon him told him he 'd dispatch his Fever presently and call'd for a Paper and wrote thus Quartain Ague I conjure thee By the long Beard of Mercurie Out of this Body thou dislodge As from hence has done Desloges The poor Gentleman who thought the King was writing the Sentence of his Death was seized with so great a fear that the Fever left him 'T is the effect of the extraordinary agitation of the Spirits which subtilizes the gross bloud of Quartains Nevertheless this is a Remedy not to be used for if the Fear be but ordinary it is not capable of producing the desired effects and if it be great it may cause Death for there are many that die of Fear either suddenly or some small time after by the disorder which it raises in the whole Oeconomy of the Body 18. Why are Fenny Morish and Moist places most subject to Fevers Because out of these places there is a perpetual Exhalation of acid Corpuscules which by respiration mix themselves with the Bloud and so communicate their Acidity to the Lympha which produces different sorts of Fevers according to the disposition of the Body This may be seen in Iron which in all moist places contracts Rust in a very short time and every body knows that Rust is caused by all Acids And further if in moist grounds there be vaults which may stop those Atomes they become considerably furnished therewith and afford us Saltpeter which is so acid that out of it they make Aqua Fortis Hence it is that going by Water especially fresh water is not good for those People who have Agues as for the Sea-water so far is it from being prejudicial to them that many lose their Agues after their going to Sea because the Marine Air abounds with Saline Particles contrary to the acid ones There are notwithstanding some Sea-ports which are very subject to Agues by reason of the standing Waters about them and the Vapours which arises from thence mixed with those that arise out of the Earth infect the Neighbouring Air. So there is no place more subject to Agues than Alexandretta where almost all that arrive catch Agues and no wonder for the place being very Morish by reason of the breaking down the Harbour and a very high Mountain on the Eeast which hinders the Sun from shining upon it before the day be far spent The most certain and ready Remedy and that which is most practised there is to depart quickly from thence that they may breathe a better Air. So likewise Smyrna which is seated at the bottom of an Arm of the Archipelago having the unwholsome neighbourhood of Marshes is subject to Agues in the Autumn And so the Inhabitants of Lyons seldom fail to catch Agues when they go into the Dombe which is a Country full of Ponds and standing Waters From all this may be drawn practical consequences which may be of good use As for Example it may be good for the sick of Fevers or Agues to be removed out of Ground-rooms and Apartments which stand upon or adjoyn to Rivers and to cause those who by an ill Air have taken an Ague to change the Air. 19. Whether the skin within the shell of an Egg tyed to the end of the Finger or a live Tench applied to the Back-bone or to the soal of the Feet can cure an Ague These are the Remedies of the Country-people which having perhaps cured one of a hundred are ever after employed as if they had some specifick quality yet how often do we see their inutility If they have cured any 't was either by the force of the imagination of the Sick or by the pain which their coldness and binding them upon the heated nervous parts caused The pain causing an extraordinary agitation of the Bloud even to that degree that we have seen a person die here of the violent Symptoms caused by the application of a live Tench to the soals of his feet the Tench becomes sometimes black and then the People straight imagine that it is the malignity of the Disease which passes out of the body of the Sick into that of the Fish though it be no more than an effect of the heat and moisture which corrupt the Fish The Antients according to the report of Pliny had some Febrifuges a great deal more ridiculous and superstitious which he himself laughs at as the paring of Nails which they were to seek for before the rising of the Sun and apply them with Wax to another mans door and into this mans body the Ague was to transmigrate For Quartains they took three drops of Bloud out of the vein of an Asses Ear which they drank in about a gallon of Water the Liver of a Cat kill'd in the wane of the Moon and salted and drank with Wine before the Fit For all Intermitting Fevers they took the Eye-tooth of a Crocodile and filled it with Incense and tyed it to the right arm of the Sick Diascorides saith also that three Spiders pounded and put in a linnen cloath being applied to the Forehead and the Temples cure the Tertian Ague 20. How do Vesicatories cure Fevers and particularly malignant Fevers In Holland they apply Vesicatories to the arms thighs and legs not onely in malignant Fevers but also in simple Tertians The French who are more delicate will scarcely suffer them to be applied unless it be in case of a Delirium Lethargy or Convulsions 'T is true the Remedy is somewhat cruel but yet it produces great