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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    IOT APR XCV. c Why is Perfpiration hinder'd in intermitting c Fevers ? Pecanfe the peccant Humours are in the Circumference of the Body. Explanation.'] What Caufe foever difpofes the Blood to be more Vjfcid than Natural, will like- wife hinder Perfpiration, by nbftru&ing the Capil¬ lary Veffelsand the curaneous PaiTages : tis demon- lira led by I)r. vVainwright, Propr>f. 16. of Animal Secretion, that fuch Glands whole compounding Arteries are moft complicated, fecern the molt vifcid Matter from the Blood. And by Dr. James Knl, on the fame Subject, Prp 2. 6. and 9. That Corpufcles which are the flowcft in uniting, have the weakeft attractive Force, the leaft Solidity, and the moft extended Surfaces * but when united they cohere moft ftrongly, compofe the moft vifcid Fluids, and therefore make the moft vifcid Secreti¬ ons, and are fe para ted at the greafeft Diftances from the Heart, where the Sum of the Cavities of the Arteries is greafeft, and the Impetus of the Blood final]eft * wherefore in all preternatural Vifcidiries of the Blood, the ext ream Parts are moftly over¬ charged with it, and there it adheres until it qccali¬ ons Rigours, and afterwards Fevers. Now nothing is more plain, than that the peccant Humours in intermitting Fevers, is the Lent or or too great Vifci- dity of the Blood, its Caufes fee in Explanat. to Apbor LXVll, above. But how fuch aDifpofition occafions intermitting Fevers and Agues, would be of too great a Length here to enter into ^ I fhall refer the Reader to Bellini de Febribus, Propof. 18, and 19. Where he will meet with a full and de- monftrative Account of this Matter.