An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals can be accounted for independent of the brain : in five essays being the substance of the Chandos lectures for the year 1739, and some subsequent years / By Thomas Simson.

  • Thomas Simson
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1752
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Credit: An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals can be accounted for independent of the brain : in five essays being the substance of the Chandos lectures for the year 1739, and some subsequent years / By Thomas Simson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ » ] by Duretus, in his glofary upon Hollerius de morbis internis, where he treats of this fub- jeB-9 Soleo faepe dicere et crebris ufurpare fermonibus {fays this great Student of Hippo¬ crates) quod dum menftrua quiefcunt, li ve¬ na fecetur cientur 5 atque ideo vereor de fan- guinis detradlione in gravidis mulieribus, non quod foetus fuo fraudentur genio, fed quia fanguis fertur ad uterum, unde citatis menlibus contingit abortus. How different are thefe ways op judging in Hippocrates and Duretus, from that of our modern PlethoriJlsy who having perfuaded themfelvesy that neither exercife, abftinencey or evacuations can prevent the plethora, make the Juppofitiony that every woman keeping regular mujl be always pletho¬ ric ; and that in pregnancy there can be no better remedy than bleeding. And thusy in fame coun¬ tries, the Ladies of diftinttion are regularly bledy to prevent abortion \ tanta prejudicata opinio potuit, ut etiam fine ratione valeret autoritas ! I am far from imaginingy that when one pregnant takes a difeafe which requires bleedingy that it is to be negleSted: nor can any perfon imagine, that either Hippocrates or Duretus