CONTENTS.
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BOOK I.
PREFACE 1
CHAP.?I. Rules for the healthy, 16
II. Rules for valetudinary people, 17
III. Observations suited to new incidents, and the different constitutions, sexes, and ages; and the seasons of the year, 19
IV. Rules for those that have a weakness in the head, 26
V. Directions for those that labour under a lippitude, gravedo, catarrh, and disorders of the tonsils, 27
VI. The proper regimen for people liable to a purging, 28
VII. Rules for those that are liable to a pain of the colon, 29
VIII. Rules for one that has a weak stomach, 29
IX. Directions for those that are liable to pains of the nerves, 30
X. Directions in a pestilence, 31
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BOOK II.
PREFACE, 33
CHAP.?I. Of the different seasons, weather, ages, constitutions, and the diseases peculiar to each, 34
II. Of the signs of an approaching illness, 38
III. Good symptoms in sick people, 39
IV. Bad symptoms in sick people, 40
V. Signs of long sickness, 42
VI. The symptoms of death, 43
VII. Of the signs in particular diseases, 46
VIII. What symptoms are dangerous, or hopeful in particular diseases, 52
IX. Of the cure of diseases, 59
X. Of bleeding, 60
XI. Of cupping, 64
XII. Of purging by internal medicines and clysters, 65
XIII. Of vomiting, 67
XIV. Of friction, 68
XV. Of gestation, 70
XVI. Of abstinence, 71
XVII. Of sweating, 72
XVIII. The different kinds of food and drink, 74
XIX. General properties of different foods, 77
XX. Of things containing good juices, 78
XXI. Of foods containing bad juices, 78
XXII. Of mild and acrid things, 79
XXIII. Of those things which generate a thick and a fluid phlegm, 79
XXIV. Of what agrees with the stomach, 80
XXV. Of things hurtful to the stomach, 80
XXVI. Of those things which occasion flatulencies; and the contrary, 81
XXVII. Of those things which heat and cool, 81
XXVIII. Of what is easily corrupted in the stomach, 82
XXIX. Of what opens the belly, 82
XXX. Of what binds the belly, 83
XXXI. Of diuretic meats and drinks, 83
XXXII. Of soporiferous, and exciting substances, 84
XXXIII. Of those things which draw, repel, or cool, or heat, or harden, or soften, 84