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

Date:: 1723 [i. e. 1724]

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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Mcy-j-.Firrrj,-.’ II II' »*———B—PM——PB*L» the Opthalmia returned, and all the Symptoms upon the Eyes with Aggravation ; and thus afterwards, for many Succeffions, the Patient by Aftringents and Diureticks was alternately cured and affected, between Opthalmm and a Diabetes. But tne ill Succefs of Cure in this one Inftance, changing the Diftemper only into another,' does by no means forbid the fame Method to be purfued in like Cafes, but ftrongly fuggefl; the Ufefuinefs and Neceffity of fuch Procedure: And in the Diftemper under Confideration particularly, it is almoft im- poffible to make any Impreflion to Advantage with¬ out fuch Help. Mercurials have undoubtedly their Share in this as in all the like Diforders from fliarp faline Humours ; but, I believe, they are oftner e- luded by this than any; and I have known Sala^ vations repeated to no Purpofe : which is a Mani- feftation that the Caufe is in a great Meafure, in fome Mala Confirmation in the Neceflity of one fe- cretary Organ doing the Office of another to which it is not naturally fitted : So that in fuch Cafes, tampering upon the Fluids with Alterants, can be to little purpofe, becaufe the Conftitution and Make of the Strainers are to be altered ; and where the Kidneys prove defe&ive, all Endeavours fnould be ufed to force and urge the proper Humours to be thrown out that Way. It is not unlikely alfo, that fometimes the cuta¬ neous Glands may in this Cafe be in themfelves faulty, in not being fuited to let out the due Quan¬ tities of perfpirable Matter through them, without Obftru&ion, Erofion, and Lodgment upon the Sur¬ face; for in a natural State, even that has fome De¬ gree of Sharpnefs. Here then the Flefti-bruf]i,Frid:i- on and Cold-bathing come in for a Share towards a Cure ; for the frequent ufeof fuch Means not only keeps the tranfpiring Humours from Lodgment,

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