An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson.

Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ >63 ] for whatever tends to exhauft the ftrength, increafes, in a remarkable degree, the fymp- toms of this difeafe. > » The fame confiderations explain the fad formerly mentioned, viz. the harm done by indulging in deep for too long a time ; for after the relaxation of the febrile ftate, and after the body is fufficiently refrefhed, any longer continuance of deep tends una- voidably to weaken and relax it. If a perfon then has a mind to protrad the time allotted by nature for repofe, he ought to do fo, rather by going ,early to fed than lying long in the morning. It IS difficult to point out exactly any rule with legard to the duration of deep and the time of the day moil proper for indulging Wh!ch miSht bc univerfally applicable.