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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    APE LXXXVI. c The Lofs Which a Body fuffers for want of c Food, is greater than by a purgative Medicine 5 4 becaufe, this indeed promotes fenfible Evacuation, 4 but it leflens infefible Perfpiration. Explanation!] As Perfpiration is the moft confide- rabie Evacuation, fo what(oever leflens ir, although at the lame time, fame of the fenfible Evacuations are thereby increafed, will keep up at leaft, if net increafe the Weight of the Body, fo long as the proper Quantities are taken in * but where that is united, without any fenfible Evacuation, the Body cannot but very much fall off both of its Bulk and Strength. A P H. LXXXVII. c In a cold Conftitution, where the Stomach is 1 empty, thorough the Omiffion of a Supper over 4 Night, the next Morning, drying and overdrefs’d 4 Meats are very lerviceable. Explanation ] For in fuch Conftitutions, at fuch times, the Stomach cannot but be n iufeated by the Quantity and Acidity of its own Juices continually draining into it, and frequently alfo inflated with an overcharge of rancid Steams, ar?ling from inward Perfpiration, both which all drying things, as all over drefled Meats more efpecially are, very much help to abforb arid difperfe, and if a plentiful ufe of Coffee is ever good, it mu ft be fo with thefe kind of Conftitutions in a Morning. A P H. LXXXVlII. * If one Meal a Day of about four Pound pro\*es € injurious, the fame Quantity taken in two or 4 three