The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors.
- Lucantonio Porzio
- Date:
- 1747
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘tr. “Tee ’ ‘ [ 250 ] ‘The Dyfenteries and Fluxes, to which Sail- Ors are peculiarly fubje@t, I take to be excited in the following manner. When, by the Abufe: of the Non-naturals, confiderable Obftructions ; are form’d in the Liver, Spleen, Mefentery,, Pancreas, and other Parts of the Body, if the: vital Powers are ftrong enough to attenuate the: obftrudting Matter, and remove it from the Parts: where it refides, it is convey’d to the Inteftines, , as the moft convenient Outlet, and carry’d off: by Stool. This, then, is a falutary Effort to» remove a Difeafe. But as Nature, or the vitall Powers, fometimes operate to Excefs, and by? that means deftroy the Life which they meant to preferve; fo in this Cafe, too much of the: vital Juices are carry’d off by Stool, and often: Blood, fo that what remains is not fufficient to) ferve the Purpofes of the Animal Oceconomy 3; and what was meant as a Remedy becomes fatal.. The Method of treating Fluxes or Dyfenteries: by Aftringents and Opiates, is what I could ne-. ver approve, becaufe it confines the acrimonious: Matter, which ought to be carry’d off; which,. if it does not excite the fame Diftemper a-- frefh, is very likely to caufe other Diftempers: not lefs troublefome and fatal, as Dropfies, Co- lics, and Fevers, But the very beft Method of curing Fluxes and Dyfenteries, is, to give the cerated Gla/s of Anti-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32995581_0272.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
