Medical precepts and cautions / Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack.

  • Richard Mead
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1751
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Credit: Medical precepts and cautions / Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    freedom thro’ fome paffages: than thro’ others. Hence the fame blood-veffels be- come wider or narrower in different perfons, according as their manner of living has:oc- cafioned thefe veffels to be more or lefs di- lated by the perpetual motions of the fluids. Thus in perfons addicted to drinking, the arteries in the head ; in people given to ve- nery, thofe in the genitals are bigger than in the fober and continent. | Anp this additional remark may not be improper here, that it is almoft impoffible, but that the very make of the animal parts, tho’ extremely convenient, for the purpofes of life, muft be attended with fome incon- veniences in particular cafes ; as in the fa- bric of the univerfe, thunder, ftorms, inun- dations, plagues, and other fuch calamities neceffarily happen fometimes in fome pla- ces. Butas the divine Creator of the ma- crocofm has given us natural means of guarding againft thefe evils; fo he has af- forded proper affiftance againft thofe which affect our microcofm. | Grometricians have been Jong intent. on contriving a machine, that may be en- dued with perpetual motion ; but have con- ftantly loft their labor, . For in E ^ RAMs t ! ‘ re)
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