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The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor

in which all the Signs, Causes and Remedies of Disease Are Clearly Expounded

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. François Port
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Editors:
  1. Helmut Diehl

    1. Köln 40, Germany

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Table of contents (257 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-5
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  2. Book One

    1. Preface

      • François Du Port
      Pages 7-7

    2. The Signs and Causes of Perfect Health

      • François Du Port
      Pages 8-8

    3. The Signs and Causes of Euaemia, or Good Blood, and of Polyaemia or Plethora

      • François Du Port
      Pages 8-9

    4. The Signs and Causes of Excessive Yellow Bile

      • François Du Port
      Pages 9-10

    5. The Signs and Causes of Overpowering Melancholy

      • François Du Port
      Pages 10-11

    6. The Signs and Causes of Excess of Phlegm

      • François Du Port
      Pages 11-11

    7. The Signs and Causes of the Aqueous Humour

      • François Du Port
      Pages 12-12

    8. The Signs and Causes of Severe Flatulence

      • François Du Port
      Pages 12-13

    9. The Signs and Causes of Impending Disease

      • François Du Port
      Pages 13-13

    10. The Signs and Causes of an Attack of Fever

      • François Du Port
      Pages 13-14

    11. The Signs and Causes of Increasing Fever

      • François Du Port
      Pages 14-14

    12. The Signs and Causes of the Febrile State

      • François Du Port
      Pages 14-14

    13. The General Signs and Causes of Fever

      • François Du Port
      Pages 14-15

    14. The Signs and Causes of Subsiding Fever

      • François Du Port
      Pages 15-15

    15. The Signs and Causes of a Benign Illness

      • François Du Port
      Pages 15-16

    16. The Signs and Causes of a Dangerous Disease

      • François Du Port
      Pages 16-17

    17. The Signs and Causes of a Long Illness

      • François Du Port
      Pages 17-18

    18. The Signs and Causes of Impending Crisis

      • François Du Port
      Pages 18-18

    19. The Signs of a Bad Crisis

      • François Du Port
      Pages 19-19
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About this book

he purpose of this book is to give the reader T an impression of medical science in seven­ teenth-century France. The French physician FRAN(fOIS DU PORT was the actual author of the book ) La Decade de Medecine ou Le Medecin des Riches et des Pauvres(. Working for thirty years as a country doctor enabled him to report the symptoms and causes of different diseases, and during the reign of LOUIS XIII (1601-1643), he recorded his experiences in Latin verse. In I 69 1, the adviser and official physician to LOUIS XIV Du FOUR acquired the rights to Du PORT'S book: he transcribed the doctor's experiences into French verse and in 1694, in Paris, )La Decade de Medecine ou Le Medecin des Riches et des Pauvres ( was published in Latin and French verse. In 1980, whilst staying in Avignon, France, M. DIEHL chanced upon a copy of this edition, which was then exactly 286 years old. Her father, H. DIEHL, was fascinated by the possibility of gaining an insight into the diagnostic and thera­ peutic practices of the 17th century in this unusual way. As soon as he returned home, he started translating the book into German: It is divided into 10 sections with 253 chapters and approxi­ mately 500 pages. The book was translated into English by Dr. DAVID LE VAY, Wadhurst, Eng­ land, in 1988.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Köln 40, Germany

    Helmut Diehl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor

  • Book Subtitle: in which all the Signs, Causes and Remedies of Disease Are Clearly Expounded

  • Authors: François Port

  • Editors: Helmut Diehl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73715-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 216

  • Additional Information: Title of the Original French edition: La decade de medecine ou le medecin des riches et de pauvres, 1964

  • Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology

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