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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    and which not; becaufe without fome Rules to de¬ termine by Cales may be confounded and miftaken from fome Refemhlances in their Appearance,which how from very different Caufes. To this purpofe then I cannot fee what we have to do with the Philolophy of the Microfcope, fo far as it aflerts the Semen to be animated before Ge¬ neration, becaufe it fee ms not in any manner to af- feCt the Matter under Enquiry ; but fo far as we get any Knowledge of thefenfible andmanifefl: Pro¬ perties of that fmall Portion of Matter,from whence we boaft the Production of the fineft Machines in the Creation, it appears to confift of a very fubtile a&ive Salt, floating in a foft Baifamick Vehicle ,* whereas therefore we can conceive what Confe- quences to the OEconomy already formed, may flow from an Excefs or DefeCt in the more aCtive Principle of fuch a Compofition ; fo may we by a Parity of Reafon conjecture, what muft be the Re- fult of every Deviation from the natural Standard in the fame Principle before its Animation in the Ma¬ trix- Where then this Principle abounds with Heat and Pungency in the mafeuline Semeny it will not only irritate more frequently and more ftrongly to venereal Embraces, but carry with it the fame Qua¬ lities into the impregnated Ovum, and without fome uncommon Interruption, or Contemperature from oppohte Qualities, will it encreafein the grow¬ ing Fatus, in Proportion to its Enlargement, and make a Part of that Conftitution to which it gave Being, with the fame AffeCtions and Properties as it ftood poffeffed off in the generating Semen. Hence it will be no difficult Thing to imagine, what a Condition the Off-fpring of fuch a Parent muff be in ; and how fooner or later, in one or ano¬ ther Part, this primitive Matter may fhew it felf in a very tfbublefome, if not a very mifehievous ‘ J k fi : VJ' 4 ' ' Manner i