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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402 ESSAY IV . to their Surfaces , fo much inclined in their ttive Properties as to form Concretions or MolecuU , too grofs for fuch a fubtile Fluid » but when thefe come intimately to be mixed , the Salts divide the Oil fo as to make it capable of greater Divifion , and Comminution , and the Oil prevents the pions of the Salts , fo that both together may be broke into the moil fubtile Fluid imaginable ; and fuch a one as in this Cafe is fuggefted to cxift in the nervous and fibrous Parts . And the produ & ion of fuch a Fluid in an animal Body will be very eafily conceiv'd , when we con - fider that the ordinary way of Living fupplies fuch Materials as are rcquifite for its Composition , and which Materials by the Management they undergo in the Body , cannot but form luch a one . A great Part of our Diet confifts of fat un & uous Subilances , and a great Part of our Liquors of fpirituous and volatile Particles - , thefe , when hurried and forceably fhook together in the Organs of Digcftion and culating Vefiels , are at length comminuted into fuch a fubtile Fluid , as that which is fecerned in the Brain , and pafles into the Fibres of the whole Body . And very remarkable to this purpofe is it , that the grofllr thefe Subftances are which perfons feed upon , the more Exercife is required for breaking them into a due Supply of this Fluid - , whereas thofc who feed high , and ufe plenty of Liquors , where fomewhat analogous thereunto already exifts , but a little ble is requifite to fill the nervous Tubes with a per Recruit . Upon the fame Theory is it alfo to be accounted , why fome particular ways of living much more contributes to an Agility both of Body and Mind , than others ; but this will occur to us in another Place . 5 . Very

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