Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers ... To which is prefix'd a large introduction concerning the use and abuse of mathematicks in physick ... where also the Euodia medicorum is annex'd / [Edward Strother].

  • Strother, Edward, 1675-1737
Date:
1716
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Credit: Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers ... To which is prefix'd a large introduction concerning the use and abuse of mathematicks in physick ... where also the Euodia medicorum is annex'd / [Edward Strother]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Spirits are fo plentiful as to contract the Parts, is thrown out 5 but whenever they fail, then it choaks them ? Is it not a common Experiment to tie *ane of the Jugulars of a Dog, and we find immediate¬ ly that his Saliva is Ipued from the Salival Glands more plentifully ? The lame Experiment below the Heart is found to fill the Cavities of the Body with a Heap of Serum, which Dr. Lower looks on as one Occafion of a Droply. The lame Mechanifin holds alfo true in Convulfions about the Head, where the Motion of the Blood through the Arteries is im¬ peded by the Diminution of their Diameters: And hence, as a Sequel of this in thele Parts, I have leen an Inundation with Serum in the Ventricles, which indeed may alfo Evene from the Return of it impeded through the Infundibulum. Catarrhs are often aConfequence of a flow Motion of the Lymph a, or its Return hinder'd through the Lymphaticks. In fine, daily Experience convinces the Gentlemen of the Faculty, who have had Opportunity to off lerve Nature's Laws, that after we have been Ipent with profile Evacuations of Blood, we are often infefted with dangerous Diarrheas, which are only an EffeQ of its loofe Texture and its flow Motion, as well as of its Spirits, lb that it drops through its Glands, where its Center of Gravity is direQed downwards. Canals that are impen^ipus from any Extraneous Body, mufi,by ftraliening its Alvei®, bemadetopafs their fluids: If they are impervious by their Rapi¬ dity, we mufl ufe Sluices to hinder its rapid Courfe t If they are impervious for want of Fluids, Sluices alfo help this fault. How far this Maxim of Hydroftaticks can be a~ dapted to human Bodies, I cannot certainly affirm* however, 1 (hall deliver my Sentiments upon a Point or two which it leems to account for, without offering