A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers : wherein, besides the appearances of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explained. To which is prefixed, An essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine.

  • Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743.
Date:
1744
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Credit: A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers : wherein, besides the appearances of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explained. To which is prefixed, An essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Fluids, or to a bad Difpofition and Tex- ■ ture, a Diftortion, Diftention, Luxation, or j Dilaceration of their Conduits, and the other | folid Parts of their Bodies; and that Medi- ; cines operate by the Application and Mixture of their juices, or by a Communication of ; their Virtues to thefe. And feeing ail thefe :are the Modifications and Qualities of materi¬ al Beings, which have the Dimenfions of (Bodies, and are therefore Quanta ; it neceiTa- ;rily follows, that the only Method of exami- • ning the Effects and Caufes of thefe Qualities, 1 is by applying to them the Dodtrine of Quan¬ tity, i. e. Geometry and Numbers; and it is altogether unaccountable, how the World has I not been fufficiently aware pf this, ’till within :thefe few Years. The Antients indeed have given us many 'noble Remedies for feveral Diflempers ; many found Advices about the Management of a (Patient, and for the Difcovery of the Names (not the Natures) of mofl Difeafes, by telling us what Antecedents, Confequents, ;and Concomitants were affixed to fuch a Di- ftemper, which they called by fuch a Name. In a word, they have done tolerably as to the practical Part, though, after all, many of their Receipts and Remedies feem very little to us now: For fuch is the Intemperance, Indif- cretion, and Lewdnefs (to which, either perfo- nal or tranfmitted, I would afcribe many of