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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    / Prefagium Medicum. “hg - {trong Diaphoreticks, and other ways, fo much the more. are they in danger of falling _ into Frenzies or Deliriums : For, by the Ac- -Geffion of new Heat,the Texture of the Blood is diffolv’d, or {tagnats in the Capillary Vef- GS 88 6 5: mle ele cc area . So that Evacuations by Sweat ate to be at- _ tempted with the greareft caution,not indifcri- - mninately by all Perfons, nor atall times : For 4 if Medicines ro procure it be given when the Blood is of a. Texture not open enough , (which it cannot be near the begirning of _ wnoft Feverifh Diftempers) or when too h = _ terogencous Subftances abound in it, fore’d Sweats oftner difpofe the Blood to ftagnate _ in the tender Veffels of the Brain and Neryes, ‘ than to feparate its noxious Particles at the '_defign’d fecretory Parts, and a more violent Motion being thereby raifed in it, the Con- fufion of its Parcs muft be increafed, and o- ‘ther Diftempers more dingerons and more hardly to be remoy'd, introduc’d. Ne BT aoe thar ML: ill Cuftom of forcing “Sweats untimely, whether by inward Medi- -cines or outward Application, fo common now-a-days (as I am fatisficd that to this “Method are owing many obftinate Diftem- pers, which, by calming, inftead of exagi- ‘tating and inflaming the Blood already di- fturb'd, would have gone off) are pretcrib’d ‘with an intent to render the Fluids of our ‘Bodies the more Huxible and brisk in their ‘Motion, whilft in the mean time the fibrous ‘and folid Parts may be either naturally, or by xeafon of the Diftemper, too much con- Ni pt ok es erate eels a Sle tracted, % Pid. , ' oe eee is] 5 a? ®