Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning.
- Joseph Taylor
- Date:
- [1795?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thoughts on the production and formation of animal bodies ... : with the natural cause of the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
43/62 page 29
![[ *9 ] the fpirits and eleCtric fire firft evaporate, which caufe the body to become inaClive; and if any emergencies befal it in its youth in any particular part, by falls, bruifes, ftrains, broken bones, or the like, thofe parts being moft deftitute of them, are fubjeCl to pain; and if it fhould by chance fall on the joints, the finews are contracted, and thofe parts wither and become lame, though the other parts of the body appear not much altered in that refpeCl. There are others who have been abufed by bruifes in divers parts of the body, and when thofe elements begun to evaporate, have been fuc~ ceeded by continual pains; nay, the contraBion of all the fibres of the body, by which it is very much diftorted : While others who have had no fuch abu- fes are without pain, and appear a Clive and lively, though in old age. There are fome when they come to an advanced age, have out-breakings and running fores in divers places, but moflly the depending parts; particular¬ ly the legs, which very much fwell and caufes in¬ tolerable pain, fo long as they remain in that (late, until the ferous blood breaks forth, as fometimes happens, by reafon of too great humidity; for as the elements evaporate, the blood turns watery — Hence thofe fwellings proceed, efpecially in hy¬ dropic perfons, and particularly women, for when they come to an advanced age, their legs begin to fwell, which is occafioned by a bad habit of body. For](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347440_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
