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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    grees to fteal upon fome Conftitutlons, and by in¬ juring one pan ii ular Part of Secietion, to induce a general Diforder. A P H. XVI. 4 Violent Exercife in a pleafant Southern Air, is c often deftruSive .* For the Air hinders feifpirati- * tion, and the Exercife inflames the Humours. Explanation.'] The Exercife by breaking and di¬ viding the f luids into fmaller Parts, makes them take up more Room than before, as has been proved in ExpUnat. to Aph.r. SeB. I. where therefore this is done, and at the fame Time Per'piration by any Caufe whatlbever hindered, there muit needs be a ftrange Alteration in th^Equilibrium between theForce of the Contradtile Solids, and the Reiiffances of the circulating Fluids; and fj far, perhaps, fome- times, that the Preffure or Expanfion of the Fluid, (which is the fame as I fuppofe SanBoriusherQ means by an Inflammation of the Humours) againft the chftra&ile Veffels will be fo great, as to hinder their Powers of Contraction, by which their Tone muff: foon be loft, and conftquently a Ceffadon of the Motion of the Fluids will follow thereupon. For a total Stagnation may be induced, as foon by an overftretch of the V eflels, whereby they cannot con¬ tract again, as by their fubfiding for want of a due Impulfe of the Fluids to diftraCt and raife them 5 and on either Hand it is equally fatal. Where therefore by the Caufes herein mentioned, a Body is brought into this Hazard, one Step absolutely neceffary towards a Remedv, is immediate Evacua¬ tion, and relaxing the Solids fo, as if poflible, to raiie a Breathing and a Difcharge by the Skin, in effecting which, all Stimuli are induftrioufly to be avoided, as Blijltrj, uniefs towards the latter End, when