Deliramenta catarrhi, or, the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author ... Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton.

  • Jan Baptist van Helmont
Date:
1650
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Credit: Deliramenta catarrhi, or, the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author ... Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <The Errors of Phyficians - Muavate Urinebut makes it the material caule of edematous® Ta: mmm morssor an Anafarea*, beae ein Tal io pada umores'laxi., moles, indolentes., ad digitii« 63.1. am nota perfon fubje& to fuch extravagancies and __ wild fingularities,as to affirme,that the Plewrifie, T ooth-ache, ; and other fiach maladies , whofe tortures were infufferable, _ were they not in fome fort moderated by their acuteneffe, or brevity-of duration , are no veal Exiities. For 1 too well know, and lament their tyranny over us: }-admit themas_ Dijeafes': but oppofé the vulgar tradition of the cafes, - maner, means, waies, end OF deftinations of Catarrbs. Thofe - fGtitious and inconfiftent caufes I deny, and explore other more rea]l'and probable; in whofe remove; thedire& way. to the reftauration of heath. doth confift. © T acknowledge that any man,upon the rupture of anApofteme in the Lungs; may die fuddenly: yet 1 pofitively deny , thata Catarrh is ~ the caufe of this Apofteme, or that death is ufheredin bya Defluxion. And with much moreearneftneffle I deny, that” an Apoftemein the Lungs can be generated’ from vaporrs exe haled from the ftomack, and recondenfed in the brain. For which reafon 1 account not @ Confumption the daughter of ~ a Defluxion of rhetuume upon theLungs; butthe genuine iffue of theit own Arebeus feduced into irregularity , and a des praved execution of the power delegated to his adminiftra- tion. Tconced'that the Game may be prefaged a day or two before the invafion of its paroxyfme from the fenfation of - - the motion of the faltmatter which ‘runs to the joyntslike a drop of fcalding liquor : but cannot allowaCaterrb to - be the catrfe thereof, fincel know affuredly that its material principles 5) manner of generation , waies of diftillation | and places'of concretion and collection , are’ prodigious ee Mh ot Pe a at v .
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