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Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / [Hugh Smith].
- Hugh Smith
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![diftended, will be abated; the circulating powers wil] flag, and may be reduced to any deeree at pleafure. §. 11. As bleeding weakens sha deftroys the action of the veilels and organical parts, upon the fame account it leffens the heat of the body and the motion and impetus of the blood throughout the whole vafcular fyf{tem : for as the friction and attrition of the fluids againit the folids are a chief caufe of heat in the living animal, which is cenftantly augmented as the motion of the humours through the veflels is increafed, and again will gradually decreafe as the motion and: impetus are leflened ; it is evident, that by evacuating and taking away the caufe which would excite the heart to action, the force and ftrength of its mufcular contraction may to any decree whatever be diminifhed ; nay;, we can at ‘pleafure by blood-letting alone re- duce fo far the motion and impetus of the hu- mours, and give fo great a check to life and the circulation, when too impetuous or be- yond meafure excited in acute difeafes, -as to induce a general languor, and by prow tracting the evacuation, can bring on a de- liquium animi, or even death itfelf, by which both heat and motion will moit effectually be: flopped and ceafe. Galen has related a cate of a young marr who was fo immediately relieved in an acute fever.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789540_0002_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
