Volume 2

Theory and practice of chirurgical pharmacy: comprehending a complete dispensatory for the use of surgeons; with explanatory notes / [Anon].

  • Dossie, Robert, -1777
Date:
1761
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Credit: Theory and practice of chirurgical pharmacy: comprehending a complete dispensatory for the use of surgeons; with explanatory notes / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    general animal ceconomy, as that which is peou- liar to each {pecies, and may be called the generi- cal economy. The tubulous bres contain fluids as weli in their owh proper cavities, as in receptactes or cyfts formed by their contexture ; which fluids are moved and due changes pro- duced in them, by the action of the folids, while they, on the other hand, are nourifhed, pre= - ferved, and reftored by them. The fyftem of production, confervation, and action of animal bodies, does not however depend on mechanical principles alone, as in the cafe of other machines; there being, befides what is common to them with all others, a vital economy, arifing from powers peculiar to animals, of generating mo= tion, by the medium of fenfation and volition ; and from the changes refulting in the fluids from chemical properties: and this renders them fub- ject to peculiar accidents and diforders, to which confequently peculiar means of reftoration be- come neceflary. As they are, therefore, fubject to difeafes from other principles, as well as inju- ries from mechanical caufes, it is requifite to the forming a juft conception of the beft means of prepating and applying medicaments to the re- moval of the feveral diforders incident to them, to inveftigate, as well the general confabrication, as the other principles on which their conftitu- tion depends, in order to the deducing the par- ticular mediate intentions, in which the medi- caments may be employed to that end. It is indeed, from the default of not duly confidering thefe other principles, but endeavouring, like oc. Gael Santto-