A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society.
- John Dunton
- Date:
- 1710
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Cae. Innocence, that being the Ar- gunent wherewith Eve at firft repell’d the Serpent; “ God “hath faid, ye thall not eaz “ of it, neither fhall ye couch it, leaft ye dye: It’s true, wer daily tee many Perfons -who have had. the’ advantage of the ,beft Education, when once they have | broke loole ‘from its troublefome. Chains, have proved, the weriett Rake- els in;Nature. However Pa- ‘Tent$ are not to neglect their Duty, any more than Judges theits 3 for ’tis more likely a good Education and good Laws fthou’d deter from. Vice when ‘both together, than either of them atundery: «4.5 14 oe Queft. Pray let me have your ‘Opinion of Feavers and. their returns £ eta Al So] OUgn Anfw, As. Phyfitians refer thé unutual motions ; of | Epi- “of the Frantick, not barely to the Phlegmatick or Atrabila- ious (humour, ibut.to a cere tain quality of its fo. ought dical motion of Feavers; which humours corrupted, but from a -parucular condition.and. svir- tue of each humour, whereby fat, a8 that putrifying Phlegm makes its approaches , every May, Choler every Third, and Melancholy every Fourth day. Andas thele humours, fo long vas) they ferain their natural éonf{titution, have .a) regular -motion which carries one in- 20 the Bladder of ;Gall andthe Guts, the other mto the Spleen, -and: the other:into the Sto: ~~) each acquires a Cettain new quality and putrefa¢tion, which is the caufe of other periodis cal motions, namely, thofe of Beavers.s.,‘) itt » Some fay, That as Health portion of all the humours while they continue in Socie- ty one with. another; fo a Feaver is a difcompofure thereof when fome one comes to. infringe the obedience which it owes to the laws of the Compofitum, and to ufurp a Tyranny over the reft, » In which cale, they do as States who. apprehend. their own: ruine by the too great:encreale of a Potent Neighbour 5 they unite againit it, and go to affail it all together. Upon tetires to the Heart, which is the Centre of the Body, as - if. it call’d irs Councel: ; hence proceeds. the cold fit of the Feaver, during which the ex~ treme parts, deftitute of their ordinary heat, fall into trem- bhing, dhivering, and chatter. ing 5 asit comes to pals upon the Earth, when the Sun is — very remote from it : But Na- ture at length getting the return the Blood to the parts which were depriv’d of « ‘it, in the fame condition that they lent it to her; fhe drives it into them with anew. heat ac- guird by the vicinity of the Heart, which is the. fource thereof, and augmented by the reciprocation of its motion. long continuance, this - heated - Blood. gaufing its fharpeit fero- fities -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3053091x_0470.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
