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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    67/230 (page 53)
    accomplilh the Task», which I fhail mention, if ever I have farther Leifure to put my Papers into Order. Under this Head the Adhafion of the Lungs to the Pleura is to be confider’d, which can be re- medy’d, if not too ftrong, by the violent Motion of the Arms, and Breaft, ftrong Expirations, and oily Medicines internally ^ unlels you are willing to fol¬ low liyppocrates his Advice in the matter, in opening at the Point of Adhadion, and by thrufting in a Pipe* to which a Bladder is fix'd, and blowing up the Bladder, to deftroy the Coalefcence: But having hinted at this, I (hall pals to another Paragraph. An Atonia, or a Laxity, is the Bafis of many D borders, as the learned Bag/ivi has fufficiently made out in his L. de Libra motrice, ’tis reliev’d by all the. Aromatick and Stiptick Drugs the firlt of which evaporate the Humidities, whilft the 0- thers contract them into a narrower Compals: Tis upon this Head Biondis Pills have been found a mighty Secret in the Vertigo: Tis for this fame Reafon that the Tinllura Luna is fo uleful in the Lois of Memory: So in the Relaxation of the Phre- nick Nerve, we find Stipticks advis’d, and even an InjeElion of them after Section. The Laxity of the Glands of the Uterus in the Fluor Albus is re¬ liev’d by the abovenamed Medicines. The Turks, after their Baflonading, find Alcanet a fovereign Re¬ medy. If a Softnefs of the Juntlure of the Sutures in Children remain long after the Birth, ’tis amend¬ ed by Aromaticks, Sulphur and Nitre. In a 1}m- pany (which I take to be the Hydrops Epiploicus, and which I have upon Difle&ion feen,) where the Danger is in Ipilling the Contents into the Cavity of the Abdomen, which turns it to an Afcites * for as a Vomica is lels dangerous than an original Phthifis, becaule tht’Cyftis the Matter is contain’d in, is between the Lungs and the Pus ^ lb a Tympa¬ nites is lels Ridden than an Afcites, where the Tu~ E 3 nicks