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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    U **!] ^ ;• or lower, fwifter or flower, than their natural State requires they fhould be, there will neceffarily be a Difeafe; that this Difeafe, under thefe Deviations, will be different in Proportion to the Greats nefs of the Elevation or Depreffion of the Solids and Fluids: That there are certain Extremes, under both States, that Nature cannot bear; and whenever the Motions of the Solids and Fluids touch upon either of thefe Extremes, they break the vital Chords, and confequently occafion a fudden Death. ' • 0• ^ \ i ' \ <• H **» %<• , * i -f « a ' • \* t < 1 . j> r+* - ’ t i. • 1 t neceffarily follows, therefore, that whenever this extreme Elevation or De¬ preffion happens on a hidden, without iwiftly running through the feveral Stages neceffary to conftitute an acute Difeafe; or without flowly paffing through the feveral Degrees, neceffary to conftitute that of a chronick Nature, there will, according to the Reafon of Things, enfue a hidden Death, in which Cafe the Ele¬ vation or Depreffion puts a Period to the vital Union, in the fmalleft Compafs of Time. I will venture, therefore, to lay it down, as a general Principle, that the immediate Caufe of all hidden Deaths, muft arife from the principal vital Organs, hidden-