Volume 1

Praesagium medicum: or, the prognostick signs of acute diseases. Established by antient observation, and explain'd by the best modern discoveries / [J. H (James Harvey)].

  • J. H. (James Harvey)
Date:
1720
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Credit: Praesagium medicum: or, the prognostick signs of acute diseases. Established by antient observation, and explain'd by the best modern discoveries / [J. H (James Harvey)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ste ee ~~) f] Breath , by Symptomatical Excretions and Evacuations ; of which, in the next place is © * VOMITING, which lies under the fame Rules with Excrements by Stoc/, and not only contributes to the difcovery of the refpeftive Nature and Caufes of Diftempers and Indifpofitions, but alfo to indicate their Event. But Vomiting is not here confider’d as Periodical, happening at certain times, a3 once in the Month, or once a Week, or eve- ry day, as | have obferv’d in fome, without any uneafinefS and cetriment to the Patient , nor as isit Artificial, and procur’d by Medi- Cines, or any external Caufe, as Stroaks or Falls, contagious or venemous Azr, noyfome Smells, violent Exercifes, going to Sea, Sur- feits and hyfterick Fits, agg the like ; butas itis produc’d by fome intefnal Caufe, Sywp- tomatical or Critical. In- order to which, ewill be requifite we fhould obferve, that Whenfoever. any unnatural Furces or Hu- mors axe generated and congelted in the S7o- mach, ox ftrain’d into it from the Glands, we have not always a Senfation of it, like that of Huxger, unlefs they be of that na- ture ro affe& us as this doth ; and therefore as the Humors are vifcous, acid, and corrod- ing, or fo powerful to infinuate themfelves into the Membranes and Coats of the Svo- mach, fuch is the Senfation excited by them, and is fometimes only a flight twitching, but then more gnawing and cutting, €7c. caufing Pains, Heart-burning and Hiccups. Now for the produétion of thefe Effects, no Hu-