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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    O F T H E A GUE. A P H. CXXVI. ‘ T*T Hatfoever is infe&ed with the Plague, that ‘ \ f Infection will be propagated, as long as ‘ its proximate and remote Cattles remain 5 bm ei- ‘ ther of them being taken away, the Malignancy c ceafes, as the Motion of a Clock upon the Lofsof ‘ one of its Wheels. Explanation.'} How many Caufes may concur to propagate the Inte&ion of a Plague, cannot ealily be determined; but whatfoever they be, undoubted¬ ly its Violence will ceafe as foon as they are remo¬ ved. A P H. CXXVII. ‘ The Plague is communicated not by any imme- ‘ diafe Contact,, but either by drawing in Infe- ‘ cl i o us Air, or the Steams of tainted Furniture; 1 and it is thus. The Vital Spirits are firft infedted ‘ by the Air, and from the Infe&ed Spirits the ‘ Blood is coagulated, which produces black Spots, ‘ Carbuncles, and Buboes ; and if not fufficiently ‘ difcharged, occaflon Death; but if it be all thrown ‘ our, they efcape. Explanation.'] Authors abound who have writ of PelH’.ential Dileafes, and the Manner of their At¬ tacks •, but 1 believe there can no where be found fo rational an Account, as in Dr. Mead's Fifth EJfay of venomous Exhalations, See. in his Account of Poifons ; and indeed throughout that whole Book, the Rea¬ der