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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    tory Glands with them which are by Nature fuited for their Reception, and therefore liable to be foul- led and eroded by them, fo as to make Blotches, Sores, and the like. The ferous Part of the Blood is the natural Difloivent and Vehicle, for fuch Salts as come into the Body with our Food, and are of no further Ufe there but require Eje&ment; and the Kidneys are the natural Organ for this Purpofe, in Proportion therefore to the Failure of that in this Office, muft the common Mafs be overcharged with fuch Particles, and either fome Diftemper arife to the whole Frame, or fome other fecretory Out¬ let be crouded with them, fo as to be diftempered in that particular Part. And as the Glands of the Skin feem by Nature moft fuited to fupply this De- fed of the Kidneys, fo they moft commonly fuffer; and in having fuch grofs Particles protruded thro* them, they become obflruded, eroded, and covered with Deformities. Sometimes other Glands fuffer by this Defed, and indeed the whole Courfe of animal Secretion may be affeded, infomuch that there is no one Di¬ ftemper from a faline Matter, but may receive Ag¬ gravations from this Caufe ; and once in particular I met with a very odd Inftance to this Purpofe of a Patient with an Opthalmia, and the Glands of whofe Eyes ouzed out an uncommon Quantity of a ftiarp Serum. A long Ufe of the common Abforbents and Wood-Drinks, with Repellents alfo outwardly ap¬ plied did but little, when trying the Millepedes, and other Diureticks, the Cafe was conquered, and the Eyes became well, but foon after the Perfon com¬ plained of an uncommon Quantity of Urine, and great Faintnefs and Pain in the Reins, whereupon the ordi¬ nary Strengthened, fuch as red Coral, &c. made into Pills with Terebinth were given, and by fuch means thefe Diforders were removed, when foon again 1 “ the