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

  • J. H. (James Harvey)
Date:
1706
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    Prtffagium Medtcuw. 125 ly circulating with the Blood. For, by the Rules of Mechanifniy a due Secretion re¬ quires not only clear Pores, and a proporti¬ oned refinance of the Solids, but likewife a proportional Motion and Quantity of the Parts of the Liquid to be drain’d out, for if either of thofe be wanting, the Matter to be feparated and thrown outt will either be obftrufted, or carried off a preternatural way. Now the Character of all kinds of Sweat, being beft know by their Ijfue and Ef- fetts, 5tis not to be doubted, that the Sweat muft be good and Salutary, whereby the Difeafe is mitigated, and comes after the Signs of Conco&ion, a Rigor or Shivering, is Copious and Warm, and equal all over the Body. Such a Sweat denotes Power and Strength in the Patient, and a free Circulati¬ on of the Blood. Such Sweats as are projufe and laft long, happening without any apparent Reafon, fig- nifie a full and Plethoriek Body, (a) fuilQU AP] of Crudities, and very often become Colliqua-4l- § 4* live, that is, they carry off a great Quanti¬ ty of the Nutritious Particles, as if they were melted and rendred more fluid than ordina¬ ry *, and call out by the Pores of the Skin, whence it comes to pafs, that the Blood be¬ ing continually impoverifhed, becomes Sharp and Hot, Hrilick and Feverijh, and the folid Parts of the Body, by this Means, being alfo depriv’d of their requifite Nouriftimenr, do by Degrees waft and fall into an Atrophy. This profufe and Colliquative Sweaty as it ac~ i companies