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]
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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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    which ought to pats: Now every thing which puts any Strefs upon the Nerves, ftraightens the Excre¬ tory Pores, which are formed by the manifold Con¬ volutions of their Extremities; For the whole ner¬ vous Syftem is like a Piece of Net-work, where one Thread is fo weaved with another, that if one Extremity is pulled, the Motion will be continued through the whole. When therefore any one Parc of the Body is affli&ed with acute Pain, the whole becomes fo much atfeded by it, that the Nerves will every where be drawn Itraighter, and thereby the Excretory Paffages leffened, and confcqueptiy a left Difcharge of the perfpirable Matter made at that Time^ than is ufual and needful. Hard La¬ bour likewife, or any violent Exercife, has the fame Effedas Pain, and for the fame Reafon, with this Difference only5 that Exercife, by the Actions and Attritions of the Mulches, as it {heightens the Paf¬ fages, fo it alfo at the fame Time, breaks the per¬ fpirable Matter fmalfer, and renders it thereby more paffable , which Pain does not without a Fe¬ ver. A P H. L, £ Any external Cold, though never fo fmall in * the Time of Sleep, hinders Perfpiration. Explanation ] Sleep is fo neceffary forarightPer- fpiration as appears from what has been faid under Jphor. .XX.,That if it be diliurbed at that Time, the ill Effeds of it are the more dxfcernable and that eafy Relaxation the Nerves are under during Sleep, makes them more fenfible of external Cold, which ading upon them as a Stimulus, contracts them* fireightens the cutaneous Pores, and fo hin¬ ders Tranfpirarioh. Indeed the whole Bufinefs of lieep, as to its Service in the Animal QEconomy, lee ms