Volume 1

A medical dissertation concerning the effects of the passions on human bodies : first published in Latin, at Leyden, on the 31st of July, 1727 ... and now republished in English, with a preface, the aphorisms of Sanctorius to which it refers, and some notes illustrating the subject / By William Clark.

William Clark

Date:: 1752

Credit: A medical dissertation concerning the effects of the passions on human bodies : first published in Latin, at Leyden, on the 31st of July, 1727 ... and now republished in English, with a preface, the aphorisms of Sanctorius to which it refers, and some notes illustrating the subject / By William Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ 3« ] SECT. IX. r i '* ** JT .. „ ; j . a.- k „ ► P ’ •* 3* AS long as the numerous Organs of the Body duly perform their Of¬ fices, we enjoy Health $ thefe are pre¬ ferred equal to their feveral Functions, by the Circulation of the Fluids, in their proper Veffels, with a fuitable Velocity; and by a due Equilibrium between the moving Powers, i. e. the Heart, the Lungs, the Elafticity of the Solids, and the Quantity of circulating Humours; but, becaufe the Blood is thrown into Ar¬ teries of a conical Form, by their Elafti¬ city refilling its Projection; endeavour¬ ing to contract their Diameters with a Moment equal to that which enlarged them; to which muft be added the great Force of mufcular Motion, in the ACtion of the Body; the Solids wafte by Attrition, and the Fluids ‘degenerate, or become acrid, by the very Forces fuftain- ing Life; whence proceeds an unavoid¬ able Neceflity of difcharging the Body of

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