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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    \ 16 Theory of Medicine. Labour of conftant Teaching in one Place, or the Hurry of a toilfome Practice in anothes could allow; He has demonftrated the gei nuine Nature of the Circulation of the Blood by firewing the neceffity of the Continuity o the Veins to the Arteries: He has {hewn th: Mechanical Structure of the Lungs, and thenc. the neceOary EfFe&s of Refpiration ; Lie ha affigned the Organs their Force and Nature and the true manner of Digeftion, and freer us from the Fury of a corroding Menjlruum'. Fie has demonftrated the neceffity of Obftru&i ons rather happening in the Arteries than ii the Nerves, and in the Nerves rather that Veins; and how thefe Obftructions are pro duced : He has demonftrated the Evacuation proper in Fevers, and the Caufe and Natureo the Difeafes of the Eye : Fie has banifhet effectually the plaufible Congruity of Pores ir Secretion, the ridiculous Cant of Acids anc Alkali’s, and the whimlical Fancy of Fer-: marts; befules many other noble Flints, which Iris manly Laconic Eloquence has left unde¬ tailed to the Sagacity of the attentive Reader. Besides all thefe, feveral Gentlemen of the Royal Society at London, (which did call the fuft Copy to the reft of Europe) and of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France, and ol feveral other Philofophic Societies, have dil- covered many ufeful Theorems, and made many noble Experiments, toward the II- luftration v