Browsing 6 items in "extraordinary cures"

Type: Document

Author:Guyon, Louys

Date:1603

Avant que clorre ce chapitre, je veux amener deux experiences de l'efficace de la Musique, que j'ay veu practiquer sur deux Damoiselles, l'une desquelles estoit de la Marche, près de Garet, jeune, vertueuse, & de passable beauté, qui tomba en telle furie, par un rapport qu'on luy avoit fait, que son…

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Satirical broadside on folly that is to be found in all ranks of society: the interior of an apothecary's shop, with the doctor purging with a dose of wisdom a countryman seated on a close-stool who defecates foolish notions represented by asses and geese; a wealthy city merchant waits to be given a dose of…

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Type: Document

Author:Du Laurens, André

Date:1599

The most pleasent dotage [madness] that ever I read, was of one Sienois, a Gentleman, who had resolved with himself not to piss, but to die rather, and that because he imagined, that when he first pissed, all his town would be drowned. The Physicians showing him, that all his body, and ten thousand more such as his,…

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Type: Document

Author:Du Laurens, André

Date:1594

Par tous ces signes ce grand Medecin Erasistrate recogneut la passion d’Antiochus fils du Roy Seleucus, qui s’en alloit mourant de l’amour de Stratonique sa belle mere, car le voyant rougir, pallir, redoubler ses souspirs, & changer si souvent de pouls à la seule veüe de Stratonique,…

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Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).

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