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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    times by one, and fometimes by other Emmun&ories, according as the Confutation at that time may be dif- pofed to manage it. A P H. VII. c In a cold wholfome Air, Perfpiration may be c hindered ; but if the Fibres like wife thereby ob- c tain a greater Firmnefs and Strength, the Weight of the retained Matter, will not be injurious or c perceivable. ExplanationFrom Aphorifm XXVIII. and XXIX. 1SeSion I. It already appears, that the Weight of the Body, as to the Perception the Peifon has of it, is as the Strength and Vigour of the Solids ; where therefore the Fluids ate increafed by any Cauie whatfoever, and there be at the fame Time a pro¬ portionate Addition to the Strength of the Solids ; fiich an additional Increafeof the Fluids will not be perceived, or be prejudicial. But, A PH. VIII. c In a foggy Air Perfpiration is lelTened ; the 4 Pores are obftru&ed, and the Fibres weakened and c not rendered more firm, and the Weight of the c retained Matter is both perceivable and injurious.. Explanation?] Why a cold wholfome Air, ( by which is to be underhood, that which is cold and clear,) ihould hinder Perfpiration, and yet ftreng- then the Body, and a foggy cold Air alfo hinder Perfpiration, but weaken the Body; is a Difficulty much like that in the LXVIIfth Aphorifm, Settion I. W here it is laid, that external Cold hinders Perfpi¬ ration in weak People, blit encreafes it in the Robuft and folvable only by the fame way of Reafoning For the Concentration and Diffipation of the Vita lb much talk’d of, is faying nothing, becaufe