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

  • J. H. (James Harvey)
Date:
1706
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    But, when the Fibres of the Inteftins come to be relax'd and flaggy, and their Contraction is lels than ufual, or an nnufual quantity of folid or liquid Subftance is contain'd in their Gavity, or whatever be the Alterations, Changes and Indifpofitions that may be brought upon them, the Effeffs of it for moft part appear in the Excrements. Hence are the thin and frequent Stools ! mix’d with Gall, Slime and other Humors in a Diarrhoea, voiding of the Meat we have ^at or fwaliow’d, very little chang'd and al¬ ter’d, fometimes having a mixture of thin Excrements, and lometimes having none at all, in a Lienteria. In the Pajfio Caliaca, we void all thole Excrements in an unufuai Confidence mix'd with Chyle ; and in a Dy- fenteria with Blood, All which different Ap¬ pearances being owing to a greater or more j frequent Contraction of the Guts, Relaxation of their Fibres, and an unufal quantity of | liquid Subftance contain’d in the Cavities of the Inteftins; But, Wherf the Inteftins are found and intire, the Excrements, as defcribed by HippocratesV are foft and coherent, of a reddijh Colour] and toller able Smell, thrown out as at the i Ufual time in a State of Health, and in a Suantity proportioned to the Food and Diet, ut thofe that are hard and black denote. $a Heat and Inflamation in the Inteftins, and a ^Confumption oftheLywp/;-as thofe that are too liquid, fignify a Plethora of Phlegm, crude Humors, and a Coldnefsin the Conftitution, Pat and vifcousStools denote a melting or cofi~i n quatibn