A collection of treatises on the effects of sol-lunar influence in fevers and other diseases
By: Francis Balfour
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Calcutta
Language: eng
Subjects: Traditional Medicine; Therapeutics; Fever; Solar Activity; Pathology; Moon
Notes: Each treatise is a reprint and has separate title page and separate paging. First treatise is dated 1794.
Table of contents: title: Treatise I : A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers.; title: Treatise II : A treatise on putrid intestinal remitting fevers, in which the laws of the febrile state and sol-lunar influence being investigated and defined, are applied to explain the nature of the various forms, crises, and other phaenomena of these fevers; and thence is deduced an improved method of curing them.; title: Treatise III : A treatise on the action of sol-lunar influence, in which it is inferred, from observations on the urine, etc., etc., that it occasions the daily and lunar revolutions observable in the state of fevers, of other diseases and of health, by producing coincident changes in the condition of the constrictive power and balance of the vascular system; and there is reason to believe that sol-lunar influence exerts its dominion over every production, and in every operation and revolution in nature.; title: Treatise IV : A treatise on sol-lunar influence in fevers, etc.; title: Treatise V : A treatise on the barometer.; title: Treatise VI : Observations respecting the remarkable effects of sol-lunar influence in the fevers of India; with the scheme of an astronomical ephemeris, for the purposes of medicine and meteorology.