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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    fome Evacuation that carries off the Overcharge, no Body can fee the Conlequences. A PH. LXXIV. 4 A great deal is infenflbly difcharged, whe$ * Nature endeavours to get rid of the retained Per- c fpirable Matter, by Yawning and (hatching of the c Limbs. Explanation^] Thefe a Perfon is moft inclined id juft after Sleep, and the Reafon is, becaufe during Sleep, a greater Quantity going off by the Pores of the Skin, than at other Times, whenfoever a Per¬ fon wakes, the encreafed Contraction that then hap¬ pens, clofes a great deal of the perfpirable Matter in the cutaneous PafTages, which will continually give fuch little Irritations, as excite Yawning and Stretching 5 and fuch Motions by (baking the Mem¬ branes of the whole Body, and ihifting the ContaflS of their Fibres and the enclofed Matter, by degrees throw it off. Hence we fee the Reafon why health¬ ful ftrong People are molt inclined to fuch Motions* becaufe they per (pi re moft: in Time of Sleep, and therefore have more of the Perfpirable Matter to lodge in the Pores, and greater Irritations thereunto. I cannot eafily pafs by here, the vaft Advantages of fome little Exercifes juft after waking in the Morning.- At that Time by the Quantity which is gone off during Sleep, the Body is much emptied and leflcned, and all the Fibres invigorated with a frelh Stock of Spirits5- that Firmnefs therefore and due Tendon of the Solids, which are lo neceffary to a good State of Health, are then moft: eafy to be’ obtain'd, becaufe the Fibres at that Time may moft conveniently be drawn up and hardened, by any filch means as gen tiy coat raffs- them, and at the*