A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other things) is shewed, 1. The essence 2. The causes 3. The signs 4. The remedies of the diseas / Published in Latin by Francis Glisson, George Bate, and Ahasuerus Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.

  • Glisson, Francis, 1597-1677.
Date:
1651
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Credit: A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other things) is shewed, 1. The essence 2. The causes 3. The signs 4. The remedies of the diseas / Published in Latin by Francis Glisson, George Bate, and Ahasuerus Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    € 21’) an accident from fubjec to fubje& cannot be con- ceived by any underftanding ) but thatthe Vital Fa- culty is derived with,and in the vital Spiritfrom the Heart unco the parts, or at leaftis excited by fome motion of the Heart and Arteries in the parts them- felves; andin like manner the Animal Faculty doth defcend in and with the Animal Spirit by the Ner- ves, @ris produced in the parts by fome motion of theNervesin the Brain. Which way foever it comes to pale, we muft needs confeffe thatfome alterati- on isimprinted in the partit felf receiving it either from the faid Spirits, or from their motions, Which alteration as itis here granted to be the root of the Faculty, ‘either Vital, or Animal in the refpective parts, fo isita moveable Conftitution , becaufe it canbe varioufly changed, remitted, and intended without the diflolution of che whole ; and it is the Conftitutioa wherein either Health or Sicknefle may confift, feeing that whenfoever alteration is de- ficient unto the pars wherein it oughtto be, orany other wayes adminiftred then is requifite,the action will thereupon be unavoidably depraved 5 bur if it be rightly performed, then found and perfec health is faid ro be prefenc from the part of that Conftiru- tion. Confidering therefore that there are two kind of Alterations befides the natural and inherent Con- fticurion,' one from the influx of the Heart, another from theinflux of the Brain in moft parts ; and fee- ing the faid alterations,as they themfelves are more perfect or moreimperteét, do render the Facultics in the refpective parts) atleaft as co the fecond act ) more perfeé& or imperfect, and that the actions are thereupon depraved or found, itis neceffary chat thts threefold Gonftitution refide in moft of the parts, D 3 me and