Volume 1

The institutions of the practice of medicine; delivered in a course of lectures. By Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld / Translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.

  • Borsieri de Kanilfeld, Giambattista, 1725-1785.
Date:
1806-
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Credit: The institutions of the practice of medicine; delivered in a course of lectures. By Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld / Translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attrition of the red arterious bloody fagnating in the f 'mall vejjels, proceeding from motion of the ref of the blood agitated., and mpelled more forcibly by fever. 2 i. But, though otherwife a moft faithful o!> ferver of nature, he did not perceive that the fmall red arteries, which he took for granted to be every where perfectly conical and convergent^ are in fait by no means io ; fmce, by anatomi- cal examination, they are found to be, in a great meafure, cylindrical, and, on this account, when once the red particles have entered them, they will not flagnate in their extremities, on account of their leffened diameter, as he had erroneoufly conceived. Nor did he explain, as indeed he could not, in what manner attrition could take place in ftagnant blood from, the motion of the ref of the mafs, fmce he points out no power by which the blood is forced a tergo into the ob« limited veffel, and the impelling power of the heart is not adequate to that effeit, as experi- ments made on living animals Ihew ;—nor can fever, which he calls to his aid, afford him any affiftance, becaufe inflammation has often been found unaccompanied by it. This illuftration of inflammation, however, given by Booerhaave,— which he has treated at length in his Aphorifms de eognofeendis et curandis morbis was fo agreeable * § 372. to § 386.