Profluvia ventris: or the nature and causes of loosenesses plainly discovered ... / By W. Cockburn.

  • William Cockburn
Date:
1701
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Credit: Profluvia ventris: or the nature and causes of loosenesses plainly discovered ... / By W. Cockburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fieight of more,and morecertain know¬ ledge, it muft happen that! cail thefe plain appearances by the Names given them by the Ancients} and it muft be fo, except I fhould prefume to change the common and received way of naming things, without any preffing necelfity. But this, 1 hope, will be thought no imperfe&ion in my method; fince I neither hint any Caufe from them, to obtain an ea- fier Proof; nor life them for any other end but to diftinguifh one thing from another. The moft obvious and evident a Dur- appearanceS, which fuppofe no caufe, and are conftant to every Loofnefs; are thin Stools fill’d With Slime, Gill, or other HumoUrs; and it is call’d a Diarrhea. But if with thefe Stools that are a Lien- thin and frequent, mixt, (as isfaid terii. or nor, the Meat that we eat is caft forth as it was fwallowed, or every little chang’d, it is call'd a Licnttna. Yet, if all thefe Excrements are A cmu- caft forth in anunufual confiftence} upl¬ and in a fhortercime ; but not carry¬ ing along with them indigehed Food, and inftead of that are fill’d with Chyle: It is (aid to be a C&liac* B 4 Pafie, I
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