Commentaries upon the aphorisms of Dr. Herman Boerhaave, the late learned professor of physic in the University of Leyden
Subtitle: concerning the knowledge and cure of several diseases incident to human bodies
By: by Gerard van Swieten, translated into English.
Contributors: Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.; Lewis, Howard P., 1902-
Publisher: Printed for John Knapton
Published: 1754
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Boerhaave, Herman, -- 1668-1738.; History, 18th Century.; Medicine -- Aphorisms and Proverbs.; History of Medicine.
Genres: Aphorisms and Proverbs.
Notes: Library has volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 only. Presented by H.P. Lewis. Inscribed: Bob Jones, bought of [?], to F. Ridgely, 1821. Vol. 1 has bookplate of the Library of the Medical Department of the Cincinnati College.
Table of contents: value: Vol. 1. Intriduction ; The diseases of a simple solid fibre ; The diseases of a weak and lax fibre ; The disease of a stiff and elastick fibre ; Diseases of the least and larger vessels ; Diseases of weak and lax viscera ; The diseases of too strong and rigid viscera ; Of the most simple and spontaneous disorders of the humours ; Spontaneous diseases from an acid humour ; Diseases from a spontaneous gluten ; The diseases from a spontaneous alcaline cause ; Of the diseases that arise solely from the excess of circulatory motion ; Of the diseases arising from a defect of the circulation, and of a plethora ; The most simple of the compound diseases, an obstruction and a wound; value: v. 2. Of wounds in general ; Of haemorrhage in wounds ; Of pain ; Of convulsions ; Of wounds in the head; value: v. 3. Of wounds in the thorax ; Of wounds in the abdomen ; Of contusions ; Of fractures ; Of luxations ; Of inflammations ; Of abscesses ; Of fistulae.; value: v. 5. Of fevers in general ; The cold-chill in fevers ; The tremors or shakings in fevers ; Anguish or oppression in fevers; value: v. 8. Of a quinsy ; Of the watery or phlegmatic quinsy ; Of a schirrhous quinsy ; Of an inflammatory quinsy ; Of a suppurative quinsy ; Of a gangrenous quinsy ; Of a convulsive quinsy ; Of a true peripneumony ; Of a suprious or bastard peripneumony; value: v. 9. Of pleurisies ; Of inflammation of the diaphragm ; Of inflammation of the liver, and the several kinds of the jaundice ; Of inflammations of the stomach ; Of inflammations of the bowels ; Of the several kinds of aphthae or thrush.