A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson.

  • Robinson, Nicholas, 1697?-1775
Date:
1732
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Credit: A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gantly expreffes it, <c In being able to ref* “ cue the Patient from the very Jaws of “ Death”. IN this particular, he is certainly in the right; for the former depends upon a care- ful InJpeBion of all the Symptoms, as they Juccejjively afield the Confiitution, during the Courfe of the Difeafe; The latter is owing to a Difcovery of thofe Principles that conflitute the Caufes: For the Princi¬ ples of Practice necefiarily refult from the Principles of the Caufes, and are a ne- cefary Confequence of a rational and juft Theory, grounded upon the evident Laws of Nature. » 1 have, indeed, been the more pro¬ lix upon this Subjedl, and more warmly efpousd the Principles of Medicine, becaufe the Profefiors of Phyfick are not intitul'd to Succefs any farther, than as they are appriz'd of the Knowledge of the Caufes. This was the Reafon, why I fometime ago pub? lijh'dmy New Theory of Phyiick and Difea- ks, grounded upon the Principles of the New¬ tonian Philofophy, in which I have endeavour¬ ed to account for all the various Altera tions and Changes, that happen in humane Bodies, whether under a State of Health or Dif- eafes, from the mechanical Afietdions of Mat¬ ter and Motion: But as that Book is now. en- t