Medicina gymnastica: or, a treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers / By Francis Fuller.

  • Fuller, Francis, 1670-1706
Date:
1711
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Credit: Medicina gymnastica: or, a treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers / By Francis Fuller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aa Exercile, and it is a great Happi- nefs for the Individual, that the Au¬ thor of Nature has allotted fuch Se¬ condary Ules of the Stomach, Dia¬ phragm, and other parts imploy’d in Vomiting, that they fhould not only ferve to throw up what is difagreeable, but ftrengthen the whole Oeconomy in that very ACt. And here if it be allow’d, that the Irritation of the Ven¬ tricle does raile and ftrengthen Co much, I can’t but think I may ven¬ ture to propofe it, as worthy the Con- fideration of the beft Judges of thefe Matters, whether when we ufe Eme- ticks, we ought to reft our Expecta¬ tions upon a few Momentary Efforts, when we fee Nature will bear the carrying on of the fame Mealures lb much longerj that is, whether it would not be more expedient in tome Cafes, to give our iafe and gentle E- meticks in lefier quantities, than we do, ‘viz. io as to make the Perfon Sick,