A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire].

  • John Cheshire
Date:
1723
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r . [ <5 ] tick Aches, ill Proportion to thd Largenefs or Minutenefs of the VelTels through which this vitiated fluid circulates. Another Caufe* that may produce a Rheumatifm, is an unufual Vilcidi- ty of the Blood, and Juices fecreted from it, and this is the moll perma¬ nent Balls of this Diftemperfor by it the Motion of the Blood is impe¬ ded, the Velocity diminilhed, and a Stagnation arifes, or elfe the Quan¬ tity of this lizy, glutinous Fluid is too great to pafs without diftending the tender Coats of the VelTels be¬ yond the Capacity dehgned by the Law of Nature, and the Decree of our all-wife Creator. It is, in my Opinion, no fmall Misfortune that we are fo little ac¬ quainted with the Nature of thole Particles, which conftitute the Blood , and I am perluaded if the i y Time,