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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

that reproach us will not be wanting also to render us odious to Phyficians of other places as if we suspected them of ignorance and as if they knew not how to state a Case when it is necessary to take fome sound Advice But we have too good an Opinion yea better than those that envy us of the Capacity of all Doctors in Physick who have obtained their Degrees in famous Universities too good certainly ever to call it in question We honour them and are ready to consult with them so far are we from the least intention of harm to them And one may truly say of this work that as it will serve as an Ariadne's Clew to guide by the hand the meaner sort who may be destitute of Physicians and other Persons capable to state their Case so it will serve as a Medium to the more knowing Physicians and who as such are ordinarily fullest of employment to save their time which to them is very precious Moreover they are not only at liberty by this Invention to state several Cases for one but they may ease themselves of this trouble by the meanest of their Servants that can read nay by the Patients themselves Furthermore they that are experienced know that Physick is an Art of Society the Practice whereof is in this found different from the Law in that a Lawyer who pleads well is never a whit the less esteemed though he lose his Cause But the ignorant Vulgar judge rashly of a Physician by the event of the Disease from whose Calumny he cannot better protect himself than by Consultation which Men cannot sometimes have with the Physicians of the place because there is not a sufficient number and no good understanding among those there are or because they are too much in the Patients favour and will not depart from their former Advice or out of respect they will not gain-say one another There is not any way more advantageous to maintain the Reputation of skillful Physicians and of such as omit nothing in the cure of a Disease albeit the Success proves not always correspondent to their Care than to justifie their Proceedings by other Persons disinteressed and capable of judging To which this Book will give more assistence than any hitherto § XIII And thus will this Work henceforth be a Touch-stone to distinguish Physicians from Pretenders These fearing nothing more than the use of this Book and the Method it contains Because one may easily by this mean know the faults which they have committed in their management of Diseases and also may judge whether they have known them well whereas such as are expert in their Profession desire no better than to make any one a Witness of their Actions AND because in examining things which a Physician ought to know in order to his understanding a Disease well and that he may direct his Remedies to the purpose there are some Considerations common to both Sexes some peculiar to each and others yet appertaining to Chirurgery the first of the eight Chapters into which this Book is divided shall be common to both Sexes the second for Males the third for Females and the five last shall be Chirurgical treating of Swellings Wounds Ulcers Bones broken and out of joynt concluding with some things concerning the Remedy which hath been given the Sick the date of the Book an Answer to some objections and an Alphabetical Table Some of which must be omitted by such as they concern not to wit the Chapter concerning Males by such as shall ask Advice for a Woman or Girl and then that of Females when one desires judgment concerning a Man or Boy and so other Chapters The Use of this Book is in this manner One must make a mark with a Pencil or draw a slight line with a Pen upon the number or on that part of the Figure which one would denote With this distinction in reference to the Figures representing the Body of Man or the parts thereof that to mark a pain or any external ail the line ends on the Skin or the outside of the Figure without being continued with Points but to signifie an internal pain or ail of the same Part one must continue the line with Points A B C So to represent the state of a sick Person whose Father lived a long time but sickly and troubled with the Gout who was begot by him in his old Age of a Mother in her youth and health This sick Persons constitution is weakly the Skin without hair clear soft thin and moist the Colour pale of a middle Stature habit of Body lean takes liquid Medicins with ease but solid ones with difficulty hard to Purge but easie to Vomit c. I must underscore it with a Pen or Pencil as you may see And such as have leisure may write it out on a Paper apart leaving the Words which are not included or marked And by this means one will find the Sense compleat and not at all interrupted with other words useless to the matter in hand As for example The Person for whom Advice is desired is descended from a Father of a long middling or short Life yet living Healthy or who was troubled with the Headach Palsie Apoplexy Falling-sickness Consumption Dropsie Gravel Stone Colick Venereal Disease Gout Piles Leprosie c. Who begat him in his Youth Manhood or Old Age Of a Mother of a long middling or short Life or yet living Healthy or who was troubled with the Headach Palsie Apoplexy Falling-sickness Consumption Dropsie Fits of the Mother Gravel Stone Colick Venereal Disease Gout Piles Leprosie c. who bore the Patient in her Youth in in her middle Age or towards her old Age. As to the Constitution it is Hale Middling or Weakly The Stature very Tall Middling or very Low The Habit of Body Fat or Lean. Easie or hard to work on by a Purge Easie hard or indifferent to take liquid or solid Medicins Vomits easily difficultly or never And so of the rest For it will be easie to apply to the same use and to employ every word of this Book to give its meaning As in pressing the Fingers upon the Keys of a Virginal you make some of them give their sound while others lye still whence proceeds the Harmony of the Instrument But if the meaning of every Article of these Observations be not apprehended or if some as we said seem not pertinent to the Subject such may be let alone As likewise one may to a whole Case add what he shall judge is wanting Thus have we done with the Essay which we thought good to premise for the clearing of our grand Design and the Practice of the same Now we procede to CHAP. I. The Observations common to both Sexes and where the first Marks ought to be made THE Person for whom Advice is desired is descended from a Father of a long middling or short Life or yet alive Healthy or who was troubled with the

Headach Palsie Apoplexy Falling-sickness Consumption Dropsie Gravel Stone Colick Gout Piles Venereal Disease Leprosie c. Who begot the Party in his Youth Manhood or in his old Age Of a Mother of a long middling or short Life or yet living Healthy or who was troubled with the Head-ach Palsie Apoplexy Falling-sickness Consumption Dropsie Fits of the Mother Gravel Stone Colick Venereal Disease Gout Piles Leprosie c. Who bore the Party in her Youth middle Age or towards her old Age. As to the Constitution it is hale middling or weakly The Stature very Tall Middling or very Low The habit of Body fat fleshy or lean Hath a Head very great little or well proportioned to the rest of the body The Forehead broad or narrow high or low or midling Eyes sparkling lively or dull large midling or little blew green red grey yellow white or black The mould of the Head over-shot little or much sunk The Nose big sharp red blew long short of a middle size high flat and dented in or eaten away Nostrils wide or narrow little or much The Lips of a high or low red wan blew thick turn'd inside out middling or little and thin The Mouth wide middling or narrow The Teeth standing close or one at a distance from another white or discoloured and black sound or rotten dry or moist The Cheeks full hanging down flat hollow or middling The chin long short middling round or dimpled The Neck short long of a middle length thick slender or of a middle thickness The Chest full narrow or of a middle size Hair thick or thin curl'd light yellow red dark black beginning to be gray or turn'd gray bald all over on the crown before behind or on several parts of the Head Hair course middling or fine greasie neither very dry nor very moist Hath a colour good or bad naturally or by accident The Complexion white pale red The balls of the Cheeks a little or very red having a colour brown or fair tawny yellow greenish black Hath or hath not Freckles or Pimples in the Face Hath or never had the Small Pox. Is streight or crooked much or little before or behind Is a little or very lame in the hip leg or foot right or left naturally or by accident Sleeps little or much a long while or presently after Dinner quietly or restlesly not within a few or many days Hath Dreams pleasant displeasing or indifferent dreaming of fire water mire or of flying in the Air. Is easie or hard to work on by a Purge Vomits easily or hardly or cannot vomit at all Takes solid Medicins with difficulty indifferently well or with ease Takes liquid Medicins with ease difficultly or indifferently well Dwells or dwells not in the native Air which is serene or troubled subtil or gross enlightened or not enlightened by the Sun and exposed to the Winds on the East South West or North unbounded or else enclosed with Mountains temperate hot cold dry or moist and fenny or near a River infected or not infected Eats and Drinks little or much in health makes one two or three meals a day Was ever temperate in eating and drinking or was of late or of a long time addicted to excess in drinking Brandy Punch Wine either Canary Sherry Claret white Wine or Rhenish old or new fine or foul Cider Beer or Ale Coffee Thea or Mum cold water spring river rain and ditch water corrupted Or eats too much Salt-meats Spices Oisters Cheese new or old milk-meats garlick onyons coleworts turneps radishes mushromes cucumbres melons pease beans cherries currans goosberries apricocks peaches plums small nuts chesnuts wall-nuts and other bad food and things hard of digestion Hath to excess either smoaked or chewed Tobacco or taken it in snuff Uses much indifferent or little Exercise Hath much indifferent or little business of the mind Is seldom sometimes or often sick of Diseases violent or moderate long or short slight or dangerous Hath been accustomed to purge and bleed 1 2 3 4 times or more in a year and hath forbore the doing of it for 1 2 3 4 5 or 6 years and upwards Hath one two three or four Issues in or by the head ears shoulders arm or leg which run plentifully little or nothing of a long time before or since the Party fell sick Or hath one two three or four issues which have been dryed up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 years months or weeks Hath had Scabs or Breakin gs out or an Ulcer dryed up or running a little or long before or since this Fit of Sickness Is of the Age of Years Mo. Days Hours 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 1 11 21 1 13 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 2 12 22 2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3 3 13 23 3 15 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 4 14 24 4 16 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 5 5 15 25 5 17 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 6 6 16 26 6 18 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 7 7 17 27 7 19 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 8 8 18 28 8 20 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 9 9 19 29 9 21 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 10 10 20 30 10 22 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 11   11 23 78 79 80 just full or or thereabout 12   thereabout   Hath been ill or kept Bed Years Mon. Days Hours 1 2 3 4 1 1 12 22 1 12 5 6 7 8 2 2 13 23 2 13 9 10 11 12 3 3 14 24 3 14 13 14 15 16 4 4 15 25 4 15 17 18 19 20 5 5 16 26 5 16 21 22 23 24 6 6 17 27 6 17 25 26 27 28 7 7 18 28 7 18 29 30 31 32 8 8 19 29 8 19 33 34 35 36 9 9 20 30 9 20 37 38 39 40 10 10 21   10 21 41 42 just or 11 11 22   11 22 23 thereabout   just or thereabout Because of an Ague which comes every day or every other day or there are two well days and one ill or two ill days and one well The Fit comes at the same or different hours ebbs and flows begins with a great or little chilness lasts half a quarter a quarter half or three quarters of an hour 1 2 3 4 5 6 hours It comes once or twice a day with yawning stretching sickness at the heart vomiting pain in the Limbs faintness without any exercise before it Is attended with a great or moderate heat head-ach dryness of mouth little great or moderate Thirst The hot Fit lasts half a quarter a quarter half three quarters of an hour 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 hours Ends in vomiting loosness sweat or discharge of Urine Or hath kept bed for a continual Fever which began with much or a little shivering or without any chilness at all with sickness at the heart vomiting