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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    to moft of the phyficians of his time, that no o- ther was received with greater applaufe, and more fondly cultivated for many years. 22. The firft that arofe in oppofition to him was without doubt Goiter, formerly one of Boerfyaave’s difciples, who afterwards acquired the reputation of an excellent phyfician, and be- came a celebrated author of many works. In- veftigating the phenomena of inflammation with more nicety, he firft remarked, that the pulfation of the arteries, in which either none, or at leaft much lefs, was perceived before, became fenfible, and greater in inflammation, which could not happen, as is manifeft, without the action of the arteries being increafed. But, he has endeavoured to prove by experiments in hydraulics, u That this pulfation * cannot happen from one or two branches of an artery being ohft.ru tied.” His words are: u From thefe it appears, that the fluid paffing through a ramified canal, from, the trunk by branches, as happens in arteries when one branch or orifice is obftrtnfted, becaufe it does not tranfmit more than the hundredth part of the fluid, does not increafe its velocity, be- yond the hundredth part, and that it does not urge more into this fliut orifice, than into the la- b3 # Chirurg. Repurgat. L iii. c. 3. and Comp. Med. Tra£t47.o