Annual oration, delivered March 8th, 1790, before the Medical Society ... / by George Wallis.

  • George Wallis
Date:
1790
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Credit: Annual oration, delivered March 8th, 1790, before the Medical Society ... / by George Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the vafcular fybem, on which account the fluids were always crowding upon the internal parts, ha- ving their acrimony increafed ; and the aftringent medicines, not being capable of exerting their ac¬ tion, from a defe£t of vafcular irritability, the vef- fels being in fuch a bate of torpor, as not to feel the effe&s. Hence the feminal veflels, being before in a wea¬ kened bate, fuffered a partial irritation, by the fluids there collected, occafloning bimulus, and in¬ creafed heat — emiflions fucceeded emiflions — the machine became more and more debilitated — the nervous incitability increafed; the confequence of t which would foon have been a he&ic fever with a tabes. Would time permit, a variety of cafes might be adduced, in which fimilar fuccefs from fimilar rea- fons have confirmed the validity of a praftice fo founded—and I am fully perfuaded, that in all our recitals
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