Proposals for publishing by subscription, A synopsis of the general practice of physick ... / Translated from the Latin of Joseph Lieutaud.

  • Tomlinson, Thomas
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1770
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Credit: Proposals for publishing by subscription, A synopsis of the general practice of physick ... / Translated from the Latin of Joseph Lieutaud. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It appears from thefe obfervations, that the morbid matter lurking in the inmoft receffes of the vifcera is by the a&ion of the vital organs expelled, an opera¬ tion which conffitutes what is called concottion, the do&rine of which is perhaps too much cried up by the ancients, and too much negle&ed by the moderns. For certainly whoever attempts to pra&ifewith reputa¬ tion, and would avoid making his profeffion a meer trade, ought to pay the utmoft attention to thefe efforts of nature, and confequently obferve this procefs of concottion as an eflablifhed principle notwithftanding the feeming impropriety of the word. We may juft add, that the critical times before mentioned, do not always exa&ly conform to fixed rules, for the diffe¬ rence of air, feafons, age, habit, peculiar method of treatment, diet, flrength of conflitution, and a thou- fand other circumltances, will fometimes retard or ac¬ celerate the Grifis. Sometimes it is brought about in a manner imperceptible to us, and fometimes it'never happens at all; but yet we fhould not relax our vigi¬ lance in obferving thofe days, lead we fhould be led to difturb the operations of nature by an unfeafonable adminiftration of medicines.—For amore accurate ac¬ count of this matter we refer to the French Bi&ion- ary called. Encyclopedia, wrote by the famous Bor- deu, an eminent phyfician of Paris. It may juftly be inferred upon the whole, that the more fimple method of treating difeafes is in fa& the fafefl, and this confifls in a proper ufe of venefe£lion, emetics joined with cathartics, diluting, cooling, tem- perating, antifeptic, fudorific liquors, and anodynes, of each of which we fhall treat particularly in due time. But great caution is requifite as well in the adminiftration as the choice of them, for fear of in¬ terrupting inflead of affifling nature: whatever fhe - points out is to be our guide in pra£lice, we are to fol¬ low (fays Hippocrates) where fhe leads, as without her aid •
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