A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.

  • Francis Glisson
Date:
1651
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Credit: A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [] i M yieldin dignity nd nature to true exercifes. To Fria ba f- &ionallo belongeth that contre&ation of the Belly, or M ofthe Abdomen and the Hypochondries, fomtimes Uis | lifting up the Bowels; fomtimes depreffing them, fom- HHO times removing them towards the right, fomtimes to- |. wards the left hand, and fomtimes thrufting in the tops of the Fingers under the Baftard Ribs. And Phyfiti- ans hope, and not without reafon, that by this a&ion they may deliver the Liver from any preternatural: gro- wing with the Peritoneum, if any fuch fhould chance to be. And here we note by the way that fuch growing of that Bowel may eafily happen in thisaffe& by reafon of | the greatnefs ofthe Liver and the {tretching of the B Hypochondriacal parts, wherupon the Peritoneum and Jy the Membrane of the Liver are are mof neerly and M fri&ly conjayned, and being conjoyned may remain i} long in rhe fame Pofition, and fo by the help of time | they may eafily grow together. This growing together | in as much as it dependeth (as we have faid) upon the J| ftretching of the Hypochondries, and the bignefs of «itl the Liver, it may not incongruoufly be referred. to the ub KI. Lecondary Effence of this Difeaf, namely, to the orga- HE nical parts Viciated,among which it defervesto be rec- vel koned; although above we chanced to omit it in its j dell] proper place, and therfore we thought good to mention wA ithere. Thus much of Exercifes, now follow the Ex- y ql ternal Applications, Im m J