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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    [,13] ftru&ion thofe torturingSenfations are induced, which Rheumaticksgenerally complain of, and from which bleed¬ ing will frequently give them Eafe. When the Blood from the Nature cf our Food or Liquor, or any ex¬ ternal Injury, is flocked with faline Particles, (as certainly it may from the Manner aforefaid) what terrible Commotions, what acute Pains, may we not expedt from the united Force of an acid and a faline Corpufcle? What Ravages, what Hoflilities will they not commit in the fine and minute Capillaries, which are difperfed thro* the whole human Fabrick? If there is a flronger attra&ive Power betwixt the faline Corpufcles, than betwixt the acid and faline Particles, (for in a Rheumatick State, I fuppofe an Acid in the Blood) then the Salts will run into Clufters, and from fuch Nodes, or Chalk-flones, as are often the Ef- D fe&