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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![§. 32. And it is very evident, that a daily, or con- tinual Addition to the Body, as to Quantity, and Qua- tity of what is deficient in it; and a Removal, as to Quantity, and Quality of what ought not to be in the Body, will effeéiually cure all Difeafes of it. __. §. 33. And it plainly appears that the Whole of a Phyfician’s Bufinefs confifts in three ‘Things, viz. I. In making fome Evacuation from the Body when § the Quantity of its Fluidsis too great. Then Evwacy- auts are needful, and the proper Remedies ; and there is _ a great Variety of thefe ; and they who are to practice , Phyfick fhould be firft infiru€@ted which of them is fuit- | able to this, or that Occafion, and how to ufe it. : | $. 34.1]. lp making fome A/teration in the Body, ) when there happens a wrong, or morbid Quality in the animal Fluids: and when this is the Thing to be done, ) Medicines fitly called ALrERanvs, or Al/teratives, are | the needful Remedies. §.. 35. And as there are various Sorts of morbid Qua- _ lities incidental to the Blood, and other animal Fluids ; and likewife various Kinds of alterative Medicines; fo it is of great Moment, that they, who are to dire Me- dicines for the Sick, do firft learn which of them are the. fuitable Remedies for altering this, or that Sort of mor- bid Qualities. | §. 36, III. The-other Thing, in which a Phyfi- cian’s Bufinefs confifts, is making, as far as poflible, an Addition to the Body of what is wanting in it, or to {upply its, Deficiencies. . And, when this is the Point to be endea- voured, thofe Things which may contribute to it are the proper Remedies, and may be called Restora- TxVES 3 and there is a great Variety.of thefe, as there _ isa great Variety of Occafions for them,; and: they, who are to dire& for difeafed Bodies, fhould firft learn,, which: Sort of them is fuitable in this, or that Cafe, §. 38. The Defign of the following Sytstrem is. to.affit thofe, who are feeking after medical Knowledge ; and, inthe Ledures, upon it, the following Things are intended: to, be done, in as concife a Manner as is confi- ftent with Perfpicuity ; az. . : §. 39:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33024674_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
