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

  • John Cheshire
Date:
1723
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Credit: A treatise upon the rheumatism, with observations upon some causes that may produce it / [John Cheshire]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r24.] , and at the Declenfion of the Fit fwell’d j which argues the Caufe of the latter to be more pungent, acute and penetrating than the former ; and this, together with the different Places thefe two Enemies of human Repofe occupy, may ferve as a Di- ftin&ion betwixt one and the other Difeafe as to the common Pheno¬ mena. I fhall now endeavour to illuftrate, that anunufual Vifcidity of the Blood and Juices fecreted from it may be the Bafis of a Rheumatifm, (this was the Opinion of the late ingenious and learned Dr. James Kiell) and this preternatural Thicknefs may be transfufed into the Mafs from the Infinuation of Frigorifick Particles thro’ the Pores of the Skin, that is, thofe nitrous Atoms, which fluctuate in the Air in cold Weather: hence * * the Blood is difpofed to run into fuch Coheflons, i t l
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