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

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Persistent identifier:: PPN687922771

Title:: Medico-Physical Essays I. Of Agues. II. Of Fevers. III. Of an Animal Fibre. IV. Of the Gout. V. Of a Leprosy. VI. Of the King's-Evil. VII. Of Venereal Diseases. By John Quincy. M. D.

Author:: Quincy, John

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382 ESSAY III . ternal Caufe that peculiar Contexture is deftroyed , and Death enfues . As the continual Dilatations and Contrarions of the Heart and Arteries , by which the Blood is maintained in its circulatory Motion , can no ways be either intended or remitted by the Power of Thought ; fo that peculiar Mechanifm , by which they continue thofe Motions when once begun muft be fomething very different from that Difpofition of the Mufclcs , which enables them to reft or move , juft as the Thinking Faculty pleafes to direâ : them ; the Motions of the former being the necefiary Refult of the peculiar Difpofitions of their component Parts , and the latter only fuch as they fall into according to the Determinations of an ternal Agent . This laft Enquiry , hath employed a great many Heads , and produced great Variety of Hypothefes and Conjectures , but very little to the fatisfaélion of fuch who have been unprejudiced and fincere Searchers after Truth , until Application hath been made to thofe proper and only Means , by which the Operations of all Phyfical Agents are to be determined , which is upon Mechanical Principles ; and upon thefe , Steno and Borelli have had the Honour of making a very good Beginning , upon whofe Foundations , Dr Bernoulli of Baftl , ( whofe Account of Mufcular Motion , printed in the Leipjic Tranfaclions in 1694 , hath been lately pub - lifhed in London by Dr Mead under the Title of Dijfertatio de Motu Mttfculorum ) and fince him Dr James Keil has improved much to the fatif - faftion of thofe who are not to be contented without fuch Convi & ion and Demonftration as the' Nature of fuch Things will admit of , and do quire . It is well known , that any Membrane or Veflel may be feparated and divided into very fmall Fibres or Threads , I mean when it is juft taken out of the i Body ,

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