Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Some thoughts on the relaxation of human bodies : and on the misapplication of the bark in that and some other cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    this will not appear ftrange, if it be con- fidered, that there are, according to Malpighi, adipofe dudls, which carry fat from the cells of the omentum into the vena porta; and that land-tortoifes, which bury themfelves at the approach of winter, live under ground on their own ftock of fat, and rife divefted of it in the fpring. It is likewife faid of badgers and bears> that they can live for fome time on the fame felf-fupply. In this ftate of relaxation, not ac- companied with fuch bad circumftances, the bark, v^-armedwith aromaticks, w^ith Cort. Eleiither. Cafcarille^ m2.y be ufeful. But if obftrudions be' adiually formed j if the flomach becomes opprefled with flatulency, and from a defed: of vital heat be fubjed: to acidities j if the ca- tamenia be deficient in quantity, and in colour; if the fkin be fallow j if there be violent head-achs, neither dejSined nor determined by periods; if Nature C be