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The art of surgery; in which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirmed by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical ... / [Daniel Turner].

  • Daniel Turner
Date:
1741
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Credit: The art of surgery; in which is laid down such a general idea of the same, as is founded upon reason, confirmed by practice, and farther illustrated with many singular and rare cases medico-chirurgical ... / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f Of Tumours i general. Seét. I, the Blood ; which admits, that the Parts to be fecerned from it, may be fecreted, fome eafier than others, in any given Velocity of Circula~ the dilious Temperament is that Degree of Flux- ility of the Blood, which allows, in a given Velocity, the Bile to be feparated in the Liver naturally conftituted, in a greater Proportion to the other Secretions, than is common to moft other Men of the fame Climate ; and this is wont to be called fot and dry. Whilft the me- lancholy Temperament is that Degree of Fluxility, whith allows, in a given Velocity of Blood, and a naturally conftituted Spleen, a greater Secretion than, is proportion’d in other People, to the urinary and cufaneeus Difcharges, and this . is nam’d a cold and dry Temperament. ‘The pi- tuitous is, when in a given Velocity of Blood from the Heart, the Proportion of Saliva fe- 4 « a) La) w fecreted Fluids: And this Temperament is cold it muft be obferved, that herein we fuppofe Men in all other Refpects healthful, and not influenced by any external Caufes. « As to the Lemperament called /anguine, it is no more than a Plethora, or a greater Quan- tity of all the Fluids compofing the Blood, than what is common or ordinary: And from ¢ thefe
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