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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    to prevent fiich beginning Vitiations 2, and therefore 1 fhall here only confider them already bred. When any Mouths of the VeJJels ore open'd., or even eroded, there arifes an Indication to make ufe of all Stipticks or agglutinative Medicines, and if external, of Cathereticks, to (hut and contract, or erifpate the Orifices. Whatever Medicines have not feme one of thefe Powers, their Operation then is only accidental: So that Crabs-eyes or (which is more porous, and more effectually works, as 3tis Ipecifically lighter) burnt-Hartfhotn can only curb a, Diarrhea, as they abforb the Humidities or Aci¬ dities that occafion this Irritation and Evacuation* Having follow'd the Advice of a great Man in ufing a Suffitus of Calx viva on Vinegar in an Haemoptoe, (where all Medicines prov’d ineffectual, and where the Stream was lo copious, that immediate Death mult have been ufhefd in by it,) with a lurprizing Succels; I begun to make Inquiry whether the Steam were not lome-what catheretick, or what other quality it aCted by *5 I found that there was a Styp- ticity when Lime and Water were permitted ro evaporate into a Recipient And as to the Vinegar, there is no Queftion how much its Spirit, though diluted with its Phlegm, is ftiptick i But 1 can hardly believe but the Ebullition had Inatch’d up lome ftnall Particles of the Lime it IHf, which made it lb immediately fuccefsful. If I am ask’d how Riverius3s Mixture of Sal. Abfintb. and Succ* Limon. as alio how Opiates, and feveral other Ar¬ cana, made ule of in Evacuations, produce theif EffeCts, if the above named fhould (as they do of¬ ten) fail ? I fhall anfwer 'em, That Difeales feldom are the fame in Individuals, and that I am now only mentioning Indications feparated and abftraCf ed from any complex Idea, and leave each to his Reafbn to guide him in the Neceffity of Choice,