Medicina statica: being the aphorisms of Sanctorius : translated into English, with large explanations. To which is added, Dr. Keil's Medicina statica Britannica, with comparative remarks and explanations. As also Medico-physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. King's evil. VII. Venereal disease.

Sanctorius

Date:: 1728

Credit: Medicina statica: being the aphorisms of Sanctorius : translated into English, with large explanations. To which is added, Dr. Keil's Medicina statica Britannica, with comparative remarks and explanations. As also Medico-physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. King's evil. VII. Venereal disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ Hi ] THE PREFACE. Perfuade my felf that there will be but little need of an Apology for the following ‘Performance, with regard to the ^Defign of it. The Aphoriims of Sanctorius have long been in the befi Efl teem with all good Judges, who have had the Luck to be acquainted with them; and hereby I have endeavoured only to bring them into a lar¬ ger Acquaintance, both by rendring them in oun own Language, and giving fuch Explanations of fome of the mofi difficult, as may make them eafie and intelligible, almofi to any Perfon who has given him felf the Lei fur e to reflect at all, upon the Nature of his Confutation, and the Changes it is mofi apt to undergo by the Influ¬ ence of external Caufes. This Collection of A r ij'© r1.s:m s has not on¬ ly been a particular Favourite with the Facul¬ ty, but alfo has had a grmf &hare in the good Efleem of all other Perfms* offDnderflanding , than which there cannot be a more convincing Proof of its Worth: Truth never fails of En¬ tertainment when it appears in its natural TIrefs ; as it may generally be obferved in any Science what fever, that when any thing is ad¬ vanced and maintained by that natural andpecti- liar 1 I

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