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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    World a long Ufe will too much wear thofe Paffir ges, by which they are accuftomed to go off, and render it very difficult to bring thofe Evacuations afterward to their natural and proper Quantities. Thofe Difcbarges likewife which have been dimi- niffied during fuch Caufes, ivill with difficulty be recovered, the fecretory Organs by difiife, fubflaing and loofing their proper. Capacities. A P H. LXVIII. c The cuftomary drinking, even amongS fempe- s rate Perfons in this Age, is ill proportioned, for c to about Twelve Ounces of Meat, they drink 6 Forty Ounces, or more* Explanation.] A great many very ftrange Habits and Appetites are acquired by ill Ctiflom, which Nature was never the Author of, but nothing worle than frequent Tipling. Experience teaches us, that a great many who have been fo happy as to keep their Appetites undebauch’d, can, ani do, enjoy a perfed Health, without ever drinking but at Meals, and then too but very fparingly, and are never at other times thirfty or defirous of Drink. Mr Locke in his Thoughts of Education, very much bl-ones the Cuftom of giving Children Drink often asa Lullaby, when froward, became in time it brings on an ha¬ bitual Thirl! *, and he fays, that he once lived in a Houfe where there was a Child that could no talk, that drank more Liquor in the Space of four and twenty Hours, than himfelf, and this ill Praft ice he fears is a dangerous Beginning and Preparation ior good Fellowfhip. It is poffible indeed to err on the other Hand, by not drinking a Sufficiency todilute the folidFood in the Stomach, but there are f w of this Number, and the greateft Danger to the Confti- tution, is from the other Excream 5 for nothing is O 4 more