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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    been done, or will be done, by much better Pens; but this in the general I may fay. That allowing thefe Gentlemen all they crave, yet dill all is Nonfenfe, unlefs they fil'd (hew their Sydems and Chemical Edeeds to be ne- cefiary Corollaries from the known Laws of Motion, i. e. unlefs all their Philofophy, and Chemidry too, be fird mechanically explained ; which mod of thefe Gentlemen do not pre¬ tend to. Gallileo, ‘Torricelli, and Pafchal, the fird by Water, the other by Mercury, and the third from the Effedts of one and the fame Experiment at different Heights, brought to light thefe three grand Properties of the Air ; (that Fluid, which is fo abfolutely neceffary, and fo univerfally ufeful, both to the Being and Operations of Animals and Vegetables) to wit. Its Eladicity, Gravity, and circumambient Preffure, which have ferved in great dead to¬ ward the mechanical Explication of the animal Oeconomy. Snellkis fird found out the true Meafure of the Refradtions of Light, which ferves to explain the Phenomena of Vifion : And feveral have {hewn the Analogy betwixt the Motions of mulical Organs, and their Ef¬ fedts on the ambient Fluid, and the Vibrati¬ ons of a Pendulum, whereby the Diverfities of Sound, and the Manner of Hearing, are explained.