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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    A P H. LXXIII. 1 When £>ber and temperate People go off with c hidden Sicknefs, it is much wpndered at by their c Friends, becaufethey have no Notion of infenfible * Perlpiration. Explanationfj I very much queftion, whether any Pifeafe arifing from anObftrudion of Perfpiration, fuddenly kills, for it is plain, that this Difcharge may be confiderably difturbed, without being at¬ tended with fuch fatal Confequences *, and alfo that it is never put put of Order, without giving fuffici- ent Notice by a great man}?* Uneafinefies and ill Symptoms. B37 fudden Sicknefs, therefore, is not to be underftood Convulfions and Appolexies, but acute Fevers, which moft frequently arifes from an obftrutled Perfpiration, and fometimes have their Rife and Period in a few Days. A PH. LXXIY. c High,Feeding and Drinking for fome Time, G conceals not only the Acrimony of the obftrudDd c Perlpirable Matter, but even the Diftempers ot c fome of the lefs confiderable Parts ; which, as foon as Perfons come to ufe Purges or Abftinence, fud- c denly break out, and difcover very ill Symptoms. Explanation.] iSuch 2 way of living keeps up con¬ tinual Stock of Spirits, and heats the whole Body in fuch a. Manner, that there is little Room afforded for cool Reflexion, and the Mind is either in fuch a perpetual Hurry or Stupidity, that it is render’d unrapable of attending to, or being affecled by what paffes in the Body ; but as foon as the Body is cool'd, either by Evacuations or Abftinence, and the Mind recover its Capacity of Reflexion, thofe Grievances which were before not at all taken Notice of, will give