The medical mirror, or, Treatise on the impregnation of the human female : shewing the origin of diseases and the principles of life and death / by E. Sibly, M.D. F.R.H.S. of Upper Titchfield Street Fitzroy Square.
- Ebenezer Sibly
- Date:
- [1798?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical mirror, or, Treatise on the impregnation of the human female : shewing the origin of diseases and the principles of life and death / by E. Sibly, M.D. F.R.H.S. of Upper Titchfield Street Fitzroy Square. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![Perfpiration is influenced by the paflions of the mind. Thus anger and joy increafe, and fear and fadnefs leffen, both perfpiration and urine. Angef caufes a ftrong motion in the membranes of the heart; it irritates the arteries and the miifcularfyf- tem, and thus quickens the contraction and dilata* tion of the blood-veffels and fecerning duels; and of confequence it increafes the difcharges of perfpi- ration and urine '; and that more or lefs, in propor- tion to the ftrength and continuance of'the paflion. Joy affects thefe difcharges in like manner as anger. In the paflions of fear and forrow, perfpiration and urine are leflened, by the depreflion of the activity of the foul under thofe paflions. The proportion of perfpiration to urine is augmented by all thofe exercifes which increafe the motion of the blood, and warm the fldn. We have an account of a perfon who, by pafling many nights in aftronomical fpeculations, had his perfpiration fo obftructed by the cold and damp of the air in Holland, that a fhirt he had worn for a con- fiderable time was a] mo ft as clean as if it had been worn but one day. The confequence of this was, that he gathered fubcutaneous waters, but was cured in time. The garments beft calculated to en- courage and promote infenfible perfpiration, to keep the mouths of the minuter veflelsopen,and to guard the body from the too fudden and violent effects of cold, are thofe made of flannel. Whence fiimnel lhirts and waiftcoats, or a fquare piece of flannel worn over the breaft or pit of the ftomach, parti- cularly in the winter months, are productive of 11. By fadnefs and fear, the lighteft of the perfpirable matter is emitted, but joy or anger difcharges the heavy with the light. Gfief breeds obltruclions, hardnefs of the paits, and hypochon- driacal affections; but a contented mind gives a lice and equal perluiratiom 12. A youthful face ispreferved by avoiding fweating, or per- fpiring too much through heat, but continual exercife, both oi body and mind, brings on quickly old age and untimely death. O 2 fuch](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2144254x_0137.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
