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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    i be promoted, and the Body lightened ; whereas upon the approaching Heat of a Summer Seafon, they (lacken and grow weaker, and thereby render it much more difficult to throw oil any fuperfiuous Load, and bring the Body to a good Standard. See Jpbor. XXXV. Sett. II. A P H. LIV. c Health may be preferved entire to an extream 4 Age, where the Body can be kept to the fame Stan- 5 dard, through the four Seafons of the Year. Explanation.] Becaufe where the Body is fo kept, tlieWafte and Supply will be fo exadlly proportionate to one another, that the Solids will be never bur- then’d by any unneceffary Weight, nor the Secre¬ tory Organs over-ftraind fo as to injure their Tex¬ tures and Functions \ and likewife by their being conftantly and duly furnifhed with a proper Stock of Spirits, will they very (lowly wear out and de¬ cay. But on the contrary, A PH. LV. c When the Weight of the Body changes often 6 in the Courfe of one Year, ?tis dangerous. And € likewife, A PH. LYI. c By how much the greater the Change of Weight c is, whether it bean Incieafe or Diminution of the c Blood only, in fo much the worfe Condition is ‘ that Body in. Explanation.’] This is abundantly confirmed by what is daily obferved in thofe who often Bleed, for they feldom enjoy long together a perfedt Health, but are more fubjedt to be affedted and difordered by shefeveral Changes of Weather or ways of living, than