Volume 2

Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Myersbach's medicines: in which the efficacy of certain German prescriptions is ascertained, by facts and experience / [Anon].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815
Date:
1776
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Credit: Observations preparatory to the use of Dr. Myersbach's medicines: in which the efficacy of certain German prescriptions is ascertained, by facts and experience / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The human body is a compound machine, conftituted of innumerable diftindt parts, which depend upon the proper action of each other for the prefervation and health of the whole; which not only undergo changes in the fame perfon at different periods of age, but are alfo attended with certain peculiarities in different perfons and fexes ; and which are liable to be affedled by the mode of living, the feafon of the year, the temperature of the air, and a thoufand other caufes operating upon the mind or body, or upon both; and producing effects, the caufes of which can only be juftly afcer- tained by a long and careful acquaintance with medicine in all its various branches ; thefe effects are, indeed, fo various, that phyficians of emi¬ nence have declared, that two patients exactly fimiiar, and requiring the fame precife method of treatment, have never occured during their pradtice. 0' , • r t 1 k r » ' ■ Whilft the different parts of the human frame perform their adlion in a ftate of healthy the fluids undergo certain feparations, which are neceflary to the fupport of the body ; and the fuperfluous are discharged by various out¬ lets, amongft which the urinary pajjages confti- tute a conliderable one. But as the ftate of thefe fluids principally depends upon the ftate of the folid parts of the body, and the adlion of the vefiels ; it is evident, that the ftate of the excreted fluids cannot be afcertained, without > • -6 3