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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    [9] Wherefore, as the Blood of thefe Reptiles is driven from the Heart, and comes nearer the Surface of the Body, it changes, from the Slownefs of its Motion, into an afh-colour’d flimy, vifcid, Humour, which conftitutes far the greater Quantity of their natural Juices. But this Juice as it advances nearer the Adtion of the vital Prin¬ ciple, again changes its vifcid Confiftence into a Quality more fanguineous, which, as foon as it has pafs’d the Adtion and Force of the vital Organ, it again looks, and by Degrees beconies paler. But here a Queftion very properly a- rifes, and that is, whether the Blood is the Caufe of Life, and the Activity of thefe Motions, according to Dr. Wood¬ ward's Sentiments; or thefe Motions are the Caufe of the Blood, that is the Caufe of any Fluids exifting in the Appearance of Blood : And of this we are certain, that in perfect and well-conflituted Animals, the Blood is greatly changed in all Cafes where the Motions of the Solids either in- creafe or leflen; and if the Organs have this Power to change and alter the Tex¬ ture of the Blood, they mu ft have the fame Power to generate it; not that I would ha ve, what I either have fa id, or {hall fay, upon this Subject, to derogate D from