An enquiry into the various theories and methods of cure in apoplexies and palsies / by B. Chandler, M.D.

  • Benjamin Chandler
Date:
1785
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Credit: An enquiry into the various theories and methods of cure in apoplexies and palsies / by B. Chandler, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fcnfible perfpiration : that is, a larger difcharge of ferous humour, exhaling from the relaxed openings of the fmalleft capillary arteries. And as we know that thefe arterial mouths are every where opening, not only externally but alfo, in all the cavities of the body; and perpetually perfpiring a fluid necelfary for the moiftening their internal furfaces, towards the greater free- dom of motion, of the contained vifcera on each other: an accumulation muft take place and p refill re on the adjacent parts be occafioned by it, if that exhaled fluid is not as quickly re- abforbed. Thus it is that dropfies are formed, in other cavities of the body, as well as within the cra- nium the abforbents not being equal in their functions to the exhalants. But from the fame caufes of increafed impetus or quantity, whether owing to unequal diftri- bution or to violent exercife, a rupture of thefe capillary branches may happen •, and red blood be effufed on the furface or in the ventricles of the brain. D Thefe,
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