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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$I [ 33 ] remaining Part of our Nutriment, having O O undergone the Action of the Veffels, in its Paffage through them, duly fupplics all the Secretions, and repairs the Wafte of the Body, while the Recrements of the third Concoftion exhale by the Sane- torian Pores. % ? * * » • r • * • t * '' • w * -- N >• - . ■■■■— —. ■ -Tm.— ■■ ■■ ■ ■ !■> SECT. XI. MOREOVER, in order that all the natural, vital, and animal Actions of the Body may be rightly per¬ formed and continued, there is abfolutely requisite a free Communication between the Brain, and fpinal Marrow, and all the Organs of the Body, by their Inftru- ments, the Nerves, which are fubfervient to them; for, if the Nerves, with which any Organ or Bowel is furnifhed, are compreffed, tied, or differed, its Func¬ tion is intirely deftroyed ; as is demonftra- ble from Wounds, Tumors compreffing E the \$

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