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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450 ESSAY IV . tioned be added lome few Ingredients that may give it a detergent Nature , as well as an additional Soft - nefs , it could not but anfwer a great many good Ends ; becaufe it would not only help to cover and i'mooth the Points of the irritating Humours , but fcour and open the fine Strainers of the Body , and make room for their Motion and Expulfion quite out of the Body . Thus any of the terebinthinous Plants , fuch as Pine and Jumper , with Earthworms , Snails , and fuch like Ingredients thrown into the Still in fmall Quantities , fo as not to pall the Taite too much with a medicinal Flavour , would be of great Service ; and , by a tinuance , much contribute to leffen , if not wholly wear away , the gouty Paroxyfms without inducing any other Mifchiefs in their room . Milk alfo joined with a Courfe of this Nature would be helpful , as fo Infufions of Sarfa China , and fuch foftening Sub - ftances - , but ft riet Care mult be had , as was before ob - ferved , not to be fo intent upon foftening the Juices , as to deftroy the Elailicity of the Solids , becaufe the Difeafe would then be changed for a worfe . As the whole Art therefore in the Management of a gouty Paroxyfm conflits in giving fuch Alfiltances to form the Fits upon Parts belt able to bear it , and ward the Expulfion of the peccant Humours , as the Conftitution can beit admit of , and does require out hazarding a worfe Diltempcr in its Head ; fo in the Way of Living , out of the Fit , the greateft Nicety is to hit upon fuch a Meafure of foftening and diluting as will prevent the Re - accumulation of the gouty ter , without relaxing fo much as to weaken the di - geftive Powers , and bringing worfe Diforders : And as the former feems to confili in iheathing the ing Humours when lodged upon the Extremities and tranfpiring it thro' the Skin , fo the latter appears to be belt accomplilhed by cutting off their Supply as much as can be in Diet , and fitting of them for ment by the common Strainers of the Body before 2 their

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