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The Second Part contains XI. Chapters.
- A Description of the Scurvy; its internal and next Cause to be principally in the Blood, and sometimes in the depraved Juice of the Nerves.
- Of the remoter Causes of the Scurvey, and whence the Mass of the Blood, and consequently the Nervous Liquor, receive its depravation.
- Of the Differences of the Scurvy, its Signs and Symptoms, and chiefly such as arise from the Blood being tainted.
- Of those Accidents which happen in the Scurvy, by reason of the Brain and the Nervous Stock being vitiated.
- Of the Symptoms that arise from the conjoined Distempers of the Blood and the Nervous Juice.
- Of the Prognosticks of the Scurvy; where he takes notice, that a prevailing Scurvy at last ushers in a Dropsic or a Consumption.
- Of the Cure of the Scurvy; where, among other Remedies, he mentions several Specificks for this Disease.
- Of such Medicaments as respect the Scurvy, caused in a hot Constitution, and in a Sulphury-saline Distemper of the Blood.
- Of the Cure of the various and urging Symptoms of the Scurvy; as, difficult Respiration, Scorbutical Cholick, Fluxes, Giddiness, Hemorrhagies, loose and rotten Gums and Teeth, Pains in all the Limbs; besides the Scorbutick Gout, Convulsions, Palsies, Atrophy, Feaver; as also Rheumatisms, Dropsies, and the Noise in the Bones, which some are troubled with in this Disease.
- Of the Vital Indication, declaring by what Method and Medicines either the fainting Patient may be supported, or his decayed Forces restored, where he discourseth of Cardiacal Opiat Medicines, and of the Diet that is fit for Scorbutical persons.
- Some rare and very considerable Relations and Cases of Scorbutick Men and Women.
II. Alphabetum Naturæ, 1667. Authore F.M.B.V. Helmont.
This small Tract (the Subject whereof seems to be new, not treated of hitherto by any we know of in Print) is publish'd both in the Latin and German Tongue, but came to our hands in the latter only; a Latin Copy,
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