A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire].
- John Cheshire
- Date:
- 1723
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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![[ *3 ] to the Nature and Tendency of the vitiated Fluid,- when it dilplays it felf in an Inflammation of the Jaws, Throat, and parts adjacent, it is call’d an Angina $ when it feizes the Pleura, it is term’d a Pleuritis -} when the Subftance of the Lungs is inflam’d, it is term’d aPeripneumonia; when it rufhes into the inner Coats of the Bowels, it excites a Cholick when it fixes upon the Vena Hamorrhoides and extends to the Intefiinum Rectum, it is call’d the Piles; when it takes its Seat in the mufculous Parts of the f Body, it is ftil’d a Rheumatifm; and when from its fuperabundant A- crimony it ravages farther into the Oeconomy, and fixes upon the Joints and neighbouring Parts, it is call’d the Gout: When any Part is tumify’d from the Severity of a Rheumatifm it is notdifcoloured, but in the Gout the Part is very red, much inflam’d, E z and i . * *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31901967_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
