Medicina statica: being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius / translated into English with large explanations. To which is added Dr. Keil's Medicina statica Britannica with comparative remarks and explanations. As also Medico-physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. Kings-evil. VII. Venereal diseases.

  • Sanctorius
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1723 [i. e. 1724]
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Credit: Medicina statica: being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius / translated into English with large explanations. To which is added Dr. Keil's Medicina statica Britannica with comparative remarks and explanations. As also Medico-physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. Kings-evil. VII. Venereal diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 brought to fuch a perfeft Standard of Health as l will laft to a Hundred Years. Explanation.] This I believe will be thought too troublefome ever to be put in Pra&ice ; and if it fliould, it would be no certain Rule, becaufe fome Meats go off much more by Perfpiration than others, as we ihall find hereafter in the Third Section: So that to keep rigidly to the fame Quantity in all Meats, would fometimes underdo, and at others overcharge the Body * according as they are more or lefs perfpirable, or Nourithing. And for a Perfon to gothro' the Experiment, with all the kinds of his Food, to find the feveral Quantities neceflary to keep this Standard, would be a Talk, that very few would care for, as hardly to be rewarded by the large!! Enjoyments of this Life. APR LXV. € Even thofe Men who are in a perfect State of * Health, and obferve the utmoft Moderation in * Living ^ once a Month encreafe beyond their ufu- £ al Weight, to the Quantity of one or two Pounds^ c and at the Months end, return again to their c ufual Standard *, in the fame Manner as Women * do 5 but then by a critical Difcnarge of Urine, it 1 being either increas’d in its Quantity, or more ? turbid, A PH. LXVL e Before the aforefaid Crifis happens, there is 4 felt a Heavinefs in the Head, and a Laffitude all * over the Body, which Symptoms are afterwards 5 removed. Explanation?^ The Contents of thefe two Aphorifms are of the greatefl Importance to be thoroughly ac¬ quainted with, notwithstanding which they are fel- dom