A compendium of the practice of physick: being the summary of a course of lectures on the various diseases incidental to human bodies .. Together with an account of the principles, or rules of practice in the administration of remedies ... Whereunto is added, a letter concerning the right manner of preparing persons for having the small pox favourably / [Theophilus Lobb].
- Theophilus Lobb
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of the practice of physick: being the summary of a course of lectures on the various diseases incidental to human bodies .. Together with an account of the principles, or rules of practice in the administration of remedies ... Whereunto is added, a letter concerning the right manner of preparing persons for having the small pox favourably / [Theophilus Lobb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the Blood; and the Nature of thofe morbid Qualities, which produce acute Difeates, and of thofe which bring on chronical Diftempers; and how to diftinguifh one morbid Quality from another: and likewife to know what Sort of alterative Medicines are the proper Re- medies for removing this, or that Sort of morbid Qua- lities from the animal Fluids, . §. zo. For the Diftempers, which are the Effeéts of fome wrong Quality of the Blood are exceeding nume- rous. All Fevers, and mot chrenical, and all cutane= ous Difeafes are produced by a morbid Quality of the Blood, of one Kind or other, §. 21. If]. The other general Sort of Difeafes, I would mention, are thofe which proceed from a Def- ciency in the Quantity of the Blood, and other Fluids. §. 22. And, for the Curing thefe (§. 21.) it is the right and a neceflary Principle of medical Praétice, to endeavour, by all proper Means, augmenting the Quan- tity of the Blood to its healthful Standard, and fupply- ing the Body with what elfe is wanting in it. §. 23. That Perfon therefore, who, in the Manage- ment of Patients under thefe Diftempers, fhall order Bleeding, or Purging, or other Evacuations, and negleé& to advife proper ResToRaTIVEs, will certainly do: the wrong Thing; render the Cafe worfe, and haften Death; at leaft will put their Recovery, and Health at a greater Diftance. §. 24. Itis therefore, highly needful that rhey.who are to practice Phyfick learn to know, when the Quan- tity of the Blood is too “ttle, and what are the proper Means to increafe it; and to know what elfe is deferent in the Body, and how to fupply it; and in all Things to aét according to the Principle mention’d, §. 22. §. 25. But as fome Cafes may be complicated ; for Inftance, A Diftemper produced by a morbid Quality in a Body, where the Quantity of the Blood is #00 great, the Method of Cure mati be complicated toa, and Eva- cuation muft be made by Bleeding, as well as an Alte- ration of the mortid Quality by fuitable Medicines. 26. It would be happy for the Pustiicx, and Multitudes of fick People in Cities, Towns, and Country](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33024674_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
