Medicina statica: 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 elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. Kings-evil. VII. Venereal diseases.

  • Santorio, Santorio, 1561-1636
Date:
1723 [i. e. 1724]
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Credit: Medicina statica: 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 elastick fibre. IV. The gout. V. The leprosy. VI. Kings-evil. VII. Venereal diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7x converted into perfpirable Matter, muft lay a load upon the Habit, and difable the Parts in their pro¬ per Motions j and according to the Properties of this retained Matter, and the Parts it is thereby moft difpofed to accumulate upon, will the Difor- ders by this means occafioned be diverged and di- ftinguiftied. But the greateft Part, if not all of fuch retained Matter, will be of that Kind as hath here been afiigned as the Caufe of the Gout3 becaufe the more vifcid and fpecifically lighter Particles are fo fitted for Adhefion and Aflimulation to the Parts through which they pafs, that they cannot but for the moft Part be taken up into Nourifhment, and thefe more rigid and faline Particles in a na¬ tural State feem to have no other life, but as Helps to the progreftive Motions, both by their greater Momenta, and their preferving the Capacities of the Fibrous 'Tubes, which other wife would be apt to clofe ; when therefore thefe Particles are too haftily fupplied, or by a Diminution of the digeftive Pow¬ ers too weakly broke for Tranfpiration, they fill the folid Parts, that is, thofe fine Threads of which they are compofed, with an over Proportion, where¬ by inftead of enabling them to keep on in equable and natural Undulations and Vibrations, they are twitched, convulfed, and ftraitened. Here Palfies, Apoplexies, Head-ach’s Vertigo’s, Depravation of the intelle&ual Faculties, and all the Train of ner¬ vous Diftempers arife. But becaufe there is no get¬ ting rid of this, but by encreafing the digeftive Powers, fo as to extirpate it through the Skin, or fheathing its Afperities by an over proportioned Supply of foft oily Particles, or re-affuming it back again into the Blood, or drawing it to fome par¬ ticular Parts, to facilitate the former Intentions, whatever moft conduces to thefe Ends, muft moft effectually remove the fqrcmentioned Diforders ; and