A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson.

  • Nicholas Robinson
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1732
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Credit: A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [8 ] tiles, and the Animals of a more per¬ fect Kind; and which I hope will be a Means of clearing thofe Points from all Difficulties* ' x •• • . » Prop. That all Animals, the flower their internal Motions, that is, their Circulati¬ on, the lefs Quantity of real Blood they contain. The lefs Quantity of Blood they contain, the flower their progreffive Mo¬ tions : And this appears to be the State of Creatures through all their different Claf- fes from the meaneft Reptile to the moft perfedt organiz’d Animal. A n d if we proceed,- to confider this Propofition, in Relation to particular Kinds of Animals, we fhall perceive that the very Reptiles have fo much Blood near the Central Point of their Bodies, where their Motions are the moft adlive, as to excite an ofcillatory Motion in the Veffels of their extreme Parts. This feems to be the State and Condition of Snails, that are the flowed: in their progreffive Mo¬ tion, contain the lead: Quantity of Blood; and of Confequence have the lead: inter¬ nal Motion ; which leffens, as it approaches nearer to, or recedes farther off from the Center of the Body, which is the Heart. Where-