Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers ... To which is prefix'd a large introduction concerning the use and abuse of mathematicks in physick ... where also the Euodia medicorum is annex'd / [Edward Strother].

  • Strother, Edward, 1675-1737
Date:
1716
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    and below the inflam'd Member begins to obey the * Motion of the propelling Impetus*, and (if no great Alteration is produc'd in the Part) Yis alter this Method eafily amended. So if we difcover the Head to be overloaden with Humours, as is commonly evident, becaufe 3tis xarapptaKov^ and xw/xarwc/'ir, according to Holler jus and Duretus • we are then to confider whether this Repletion be f rom a pure or an impure Plethora, and we moll accord¬ ingly fuit our Evacuations. We mull then fay, that there are two forts of Evacuations, Inflrumental and Medicinal: To the Firft are referf d the Paracentefts or Apertion, in any Senle: To the latter all the Sti¬ muli, which not only have an Effe£t on the Stomach and Inteftines, but alfb on the Veflels and fecretory Du&s § fb that the Shock and Irritation give am Uneafinefs to the Glands, and Iqueeze 'em by their acrimonious Parts to Evacuations, as does the acci¬ dental Shock given to feveral of the Vifcera, when, for Example, an Erne tick given, opens Obftr unions in the Gall-Bladder, and (hakes olt the Load of Phlegm from the Bronchi# in> Afthmas : To this Head is referred Riding in Afthmatick Confumpti- ons for, to (peak Truth, Dr. Sydenham can mean no other, when he advifes Riding in fuch as are even much fpent, My Bounds will not allow me to expatiate farther on this Head at prefent. An Atrophy is an oppofite to Plenitudes * and I would be underflood to take this in as large a Senfe as I have done in the former Paragraph 5 fb that where-ever there is any Defe£t of Juices in General or in Particular, the Bufinefs of a Phyfician is to fiipply fbme amicable Specificks, in order to reftore the Want ^ where no Evacuations can take Place, but only fuch Alterations as are of the fame Nature with the Juice or Fluid to be fupply'd. So that here we are fuppos'd to be Matters of the Nature of fuch Juices, or we can never aft the