Anatomical and practical observations in St. Thomas's Hospital, 1674-1677 / by James Molins ; edited, with an introduction and notes from the MS. in the British Museum, by J.F. Payne.
- Molins, James.
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Anatomical and practical observations in St. Thomas's Hospital, 1674-1677 / by James Molins ; edited, with an introduction and notes from the MS. in the British Museum, by J.F. Payne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![would containe an egg; rather bigger than that which Kiverius^ gives you account of in his observations (where he treats concerning an Aneurisma) and dilated very largely in the Right Ventricle of the hearte ; the coate of the Artery was very thick and in some places cartilaginous (like little flakes of Ice). Ambrose Parey (Lib. 7, Cap. xxxti) * treating of an Aneurisma gives you this Deffinition that “ An Aneu- risma is a soft tumor yielding to the touch, made by the blood and spirit poured forth under the Flesh and muscles by the Dilation and relaxation of an Artery. Galen calls an Aneurisma an opening made of the Anastomasis of an Artery. An Aneurisma may be made when an Artery that is wounded closeth too slowly. The substance which is above it being in the meanetime agglutinated, filled with Flesh and cica- trized which doth not seldome happen in opening of Arteryes unskillfully performed and negligently cured. Therefore Aueuristnas are absolutely made by the anastomasis, spring- ing, breaking, Erosione and wounding of the Artery. These happen in all parts of the body but more frequently in the throate, especially in women after hard travaile. * * * The Cause of such a bony Constitution in the Arteryes by an Aneurisma is for that the hott and fevered Blood first dilates the coates of an artery, than breakes them, which when itt happens, it then borrows from the neighbouring bodys a fitt matter to restore the loosed continuity.” Thereof Joannes Johnstonns in Idea Medicinse, (Lib. 6, Cap. viii, page 288)* dixit; “aneurisma est tumor ab arterise tunicas * Lazare Rivifere, or Riverius (1589—1655), was a famous French physician and professor at Montpelier. He was one of the first teachers who combined the “ Spagirical or chemical therapeutics witli the older “ Qalenical ” methods. He wrote ‘Praxis Medica,’ *Observationes Medica;’ (containing some hundreds of cases), &c. These works were extremely popular, and some were translated into English. Several may be found in the St. Thomas’s Library. * “ The works of that famous chirurgeon, Ambrose Parey, translated out of Latin and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson,” folio, London, 1649, p. 224. [St. Thomas’s Hospital Library.] The standard text-book of surgery in the seventeenth century. ’ ‘ Idea Universae Medicinae practicae,’ 8vo, Amstelodami, 1648. John Jonston (1603—1675) belonged to a Scottish family resident in Poland, and was born there. He studied philosophy at St. Andrews, medicine at Leyden and other places, including London, which must have been in the time of Harvey, but returned to the Continent and practised in Poland. He was a man of immense](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22447301_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
