Medicina Statica

Santorio, Santorio; Quincy, John; Keill, James

Medicina Statica

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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.

Physical location:: Universitätsbibliothek Kiel

Sedt . II . 0 / Air and Water . 125 Vibrations , and accelerating the Blood's Motion , is with Certainty to be had from hence . All Difeafes therefore from a fizy Blood , and a Lentor upon the animal Juices , if the Elailicity of the Veflels is not worn out with Age or Debauches , will find Relief from this Practice . Whatfoever Inconveniencies like - wife proceed from a bad Tranfpiration , or when Humours are thrown upon the Surface which cannot get thro' the Skin , this Remedy will be of Service in ; for upon Immerfion , the whole nervous Syftem is fo fliook , that the very Capillaries feel the fluence , and the minuted Paflages are forced open by an incrcafcd Velocity of the circulating Fluids , whereby the Skin will be cleared , and inftcad of entertaining grofs acrimonious Humours , tranfmit only the imperceptible Matter of Perfpiration . And this is the Reafon why People arefo brilk and chearful after bathing ; becaufe fo much is thus forced away by the Prcflure upon the Veflels , and forcing out their Contents . A Perfon two Foot under Water , fuftains a Weight of Water , added to that of Air ( fuppofing the Area , of his Skin to be 15 Foot ) = 2280 lb ; for 2 , the Number of cubical Feet of ter , prefiing upon a Foot Square of the Skin x 76 , the Number of Pounds in a cubical Foot of Water is = 152 * 15 : the fuppofed Number of fquare Feet on the Surface of the Body is = 2280 ft> Troy . Tho' it be a generally received Notion , that Batb Water enters into the Body , and fo mixes itfelf with the Blood , * yet few attend to the Manner how it is poflible . That Water hath a wonderful Power of infinuating itfelf into the Body , we fee by a Number of Experiments . Deal - boards will fwell againft rainy Weather , the watry Particles floating in the Air by the Preflure of the Air upon them , arc forced into the ( lender Tubes of the Wood , where they n^eet with no Refiftance , the Particles of

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