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
Date:
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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    Explanation.] Any moderate external Warmth re¬ laxes xhe Solids, and opens the cutaneous Pores, and gives greater Liberty thereby for the Perfpira- ble Matter to pafs off 5 but if the Humours are crude, and not diffidently digefted, that is, it they are grofs, and not broke imall enough * that eafy Relaxation which otherwife would give them the more Room ro fly off, will only oecafion a greater D erivation ox them towards the Circumference, where, by their Grofsnefs and Indigeftion, they will be obit Hided in the Capillary Veflels ; andfuch an Obftruction by a continual Supply from within* will encreafe, until the Solids are Simulated to make larger fenlible Evacuations, or raife a Fever. But where fuch indigeffed Matter does not hinder, the Caufes above-mentioned will much encreafe Per* fpiration, and of Confequence lighten and cool the Body. As for hot Bathing, the chief in our Country is that famous one near Wells in Somerfetjbire * a no* ther there is of inferior Note at Buxton. We ihall leave it to Naturalifts and Philofophers to account for the Production of thofe Waters, and be con¬ tented with obferving, that they greatly abound with a mineral Sulphur. From the Matter then with which this Water is impregnated, it may be pro¬ nounced a fofr, healing, fubaftringent Balfamick. Subaftf ingem is added, becaufe we never meet with Sulphur, even in the fublimed Flowers, which has not fome Port ion of a Salt in itsCompoflnon ; which when boiled in Oil, as in making the Balfamick Sulphurs, fhoot like Needles, or the Branchings of Sal Jrmoniack: So that it is very improbable thefe Waters fhould take up any Sulphur in their Subter¬ raneous Current, without bringing alio fome of that faline Part along with it, which it is never found without, above Ground ^ and efpecially when we K confider