Medicina Statica

Santorio, Santorio; Quincy, John; Keill, James

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:2-635590

Persistent identifier:: PPN588448818

Title:: Medicina Statica

Sub title:: Being The Aphorisms Of Sanctorius, Translated into English, with Large Explanations ; To which is added Dr Keil's Medicina Statica Britannica, with comparative Remarks and Explanations ; As Also Medico-Physical Essays On I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An Elastic Fibre. IV. The Gout. V. The Leprosy. VI. The King's Evil. VII. The Venereal Disease

Signature:: Kd 1960

Author:: Santorio, Santorio
Quincy, John
Keill, James

Document type:: Monograph

Publisher:: Longman

Year of publication:: 1737

Place of publication:: London

Language:: English

Collection:: Medicine

Scope:: [1] Bl., VIII, 463 S., [1] gef. Bl., [8] Bl.

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vi The PREFACE .
Life has upon bis Confiitution , may come to a tolerable good Undcrftanding of what will promote , cr injure , ¿ / 'j Health . 11 'here then a Man has , with the utmoft Pains and Fidelity , thorough a Courfe of Obfer - vations upon fach unerring Cuides , av / Z» Certainty lo determine the Ejfeils of all thefe Things upon bis own Per fen , a Communication of them to the IVor Id , with fuch Lights and Jffifiance as may render them eafy and intelligible to an indifferent Capacity , can , I hope , be no unacceptable Prefent . It is already cut of Difputc that Sanctorius has done the former Part , and by this , / have offer'd my befl Endeavours towards the latter .
I am not a ! all unaware how fvere fame will be hereupon , in requiring hew often they muß weigh them - felves , and whether they ought to eat and drink by the Ounce ? To whom I have only this to fay , " That rius by the Balance , has already done enough to vince any ferions Perfon of the natural Difcharges , and their Proportions to one another , the moft confiderable of which , viz . That ly infenfible Perfpiration was but very little attended to before - , from which , and all the Conf luences of tbofe Difcharges , from the leafl to their greateß Quantities pcßble , any Perfon may fon be a Judge of the prefent State of his Confiitution , without going into a Pair of Scales . And for this lieafon it is , that 1 have not been nice in fearehing into the Exaé / nefs of the Sanctori an Calculations , the End I propos * d being anfwered , by knowing that there are fuch Difcharges , how they are to be influenced , and what will be the Confluences of their Diforders . Bifides , were a Perfon to make Experiments with the Balance , it is not at all likely that they fkould exailly agree with Sa nctor i us'j Accounts , both cur Climate and IVay of Living being fo very different from his . lie was Profejjor at Padua in Italy , a Country much better than
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