Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur.

  • Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
Date:
1786
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Credit: Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 33 ] much diluting drinks increafe the power and promote the operation of diuretic medi¬ cines, and of courfe how much they contri- bute to the cure of the Dropfv. Thefe facts being premifed, let us now enquire whether the practice of the foreign phyficians which we have mentioned, be agreeable to the rules given us upon this fubjedt by Hippocrates. This fagacious phy- fician had two methods of curing the Drop- fy ; the one by medicine, the other by diet only. That his dodtrine may be rightly underftood, it will be proper for us to ex¬ plain fome of his phyfical principles or opinions. “ The peculiar elements of our *c body according to Hippocrates, ccnfift. cc of four humours ; and humidity and cold- “ nefs, heat and drynefs, are common pro- “ perties of them. Hippocrates denomi- u nates the elements from thefe qualities of “ them, and conceives that health depends C6 upon the due proportion of thele, and 66 that difeafe is conftituted by the excefs of 4{ any of them, and that the remedies of 44 difeafes muft be derived from the quali- “ ties, contrary to thofe which are excef- “ five*