Medical Letters, Volume One

The meats of wild birds, their preparations, and which are good and which are bad. page 30

B

Baths of Padua: how they contribute to resolution, or Paralysis. Letters 14 & 15. Padua was a renowned center for medical study and home to famous thermal springs used for therapeutic bathing.
The location and virtues of the boiler-rooms original: "calderiæ"; the heated rooms or cauldrons used in thermal baths. of the baths, and which diseases they help, and how and when they are useful, throughout Letter 26.
The powers and temperament of butter. page 31

C

Causes of diseases must be known before treatment. page 2. on the back original: "a tergo"; referring to the verso or reverse side of the leaf.
Galen A 2nd-century Greek physician whose theories on the four humors dominated Western medicine for centuries. enumerated the antecedent causes. page 2
Causes which remove one from health, or preserve health. page 17
The formal and material causes of the quantity of the brain. Letter 6.
The nature of all meats. page 27
Many preparations of pork meat. page 27
By what reasoning river crayfish benefit those with consumption and hectic fever. page 36. on the back. "Hectic fever" was a term for a persistent, wasting fever, often associated with what we now call tuberculosis.
Capers are excellent, and they strengthen the stomach. page 39. on the back.
Anatomy of the parts of the head and brain, Letters 5 & 6.
The brain first had a round shape by nature. page 54
Why nature gave a greater quantity of brain to man. page 56
Habit original: "Consuetudo"; the patient's lifestyle or accustomed routine. must be considered in the sick. page 4
A bad habit must be removed. page 4
The "contrary" in diseases is twofold, namely intrinsic and extrinsic. The intrinsic is the virtue In this context, "virtue" refers to the body's natural power or faculty.; the other is the disposing instrument. page 6
Nothing is so contrary to the digestion of the stomach as the quantity and variety of foods. original: "Coctioni"; literally "cooking." Renaissance medicine viewed digestion as a process of "cooking" food within the heat of the stomach. page 7
Young pigeons original: "Columbarum pulli"; squab. are effective for Paralytics and the elderly. page 28
How the suffering of the heart in fevers may be relieved. page 67. on the back.
How the wasting of the body original: "excarnationi"; the loss of flesh or emaciation. may be relieved. Letter 16.
Cure for the falling sickness original: "Comitialis morbi"; epilepsy., and for convulsion of the neck, and for a tumor of the forehead. pages 89 & 90.