Volume 1

The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.

Date:
1800-1803
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Credit: The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    * Firft Lines of the PraX. of Fhyf. for the ufe of ftudents < in the univerfity of Edinburgh, 1777. f RefleXions on the general treatment, &c. London. V, Med. Com. of a Soe. of Gentiemen in Edinburgh. V. i. p. 1. c. v. Venez. 1775. ± See alfo Raccolta d’opufcoli fcelti fulie fcrenze, ed arti fatta ’ in Milano, T. 2. P. 6. p. 417. where Cullen’s invcltigation of die i proximate caufe of fever is to be found tranflated into Italian. ] This theory of Cullen’s was adopted by Fouquet, (in a note on Lind’s Memoir, fur les fievr. p. 226.), who has given us a fome- j what more ample explanation of it. With feveral Britilh phyfi- j cians, he obferves: “ If the fymproms are confidered, which “ are commonly obferved in the various ftages of fever, it will “ readily appear, that the aXion of the fame poifonous or me- “ phitic matter, which, on entering the fyllem, gives rife to vio- “ lent fevers,confift in diminution of thenervous energy,and na- u tural tone of the brain, as is fhewn by the weakened aXion of “ the heart and great arteries, which is obferVable in fimilar cafes. “ Hence, alfo, the blood is no longer propelled with fufficient ; “ force to the fmall fuperficial veflels, which are fpafmodically “ contraXed, particularly in confequence of the fenfe of cold « felt at the furface, either becaufe motion, heat and the fluids, - “ arc driven to the central parts of the body, or likewife be- j <£ caufe the tone of the nervous fyllem is in a (late of languor. “ Hence the palenefs, laflitude, fpafmodic conllriXion, and “ remarkable ihrinking of tire whole furface of the body, which ; “ occur at the commencement of the cold fit in fevers, ought 1 <* to be confidered aseffcXsof fpafm, occafioned by the debility | « of the nervous fyllem, properly fo called, and diminifhed S « aXion of the heart and arteries. For the folid parts 1 «< in animals are elaftic, and the blood-veflels, in particular,! “ in their natural Hate are in fome meafure diflended by the J “ impetus of the blood conftantly propelled into them, and f “ which reaches to the extremities of the capillaries. From ^
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