Praesagium medicum: or, the prognostick signs of acute diseases / [J. H (James Harvey)].

  • J. H. (James Harvey)
Date:
1706
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Credit: Praesagium medicum: or, the prognostick signs of acute diseases / [J. H (James Harvey)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lJr£]agium Niedicum, Earth than is ufual or natural, either becaufe the Particles of thofe Solid Parts, are too grofs to be rendred fluxible and {epa rated in the Reins : Or,becaufe they are not broke oft* from the Parts of the Body and mix’d with the Blood : But, be it as it will, this thin watry and clear Urine, in Fevers, Prog no* fticate imminent or approaching Pains in the extream Parts, efpecially in the Head, and tells us that the Fever is not an Epheme¬ ra, in which the Secretions are little altered or vitiated, and therefore is the more dange¬ rous, becaufe the grofs Humours come not into the Reins, in that quantity that’s necef fary to take off the Difiemper, but is ob- ftrufted in the Extream Parts or Capillary VefTels, where the Impetus of the circulating Blood is weakeft, and at the greatefi di* fiance from the Heart. But this is to be underfiood only with re-. . IpeQ: to this thin Urine in the beginning of the Fever • For, if it continue clear, thin, and Watry for fome time, the Symptom is yet more dangerous, chiefly, becaufe it de¬ notes a Stagnation in the Capillary Veflels of the Brain, ( where the Motion of the Blood is weak and unaStive, of little Power and Force, and eafily obfirufted ) in which when thefe Humours or Salts are once fixed, not only the Urine, that fhould have been loaded and impregnate with them, becomes thin and clear, but alfo thofe finer Vreffels of the Brain, mult bediftended and over liretcht, caufing violent and intolerable Pains, and at lafi an Infiamaticn, Delirium and Frenzic, ' F 4 ‘ ' in