Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. II. Animating Powers. Animating Powers what—Motion the Source of Life—Stimuli what—every Organ has its peculiar Stimulus—Stimuli unnatural or pre- ternatural—tonic, clonic, and paralytic, what —Stimulants what—their different Genera-— Sedatives what—their different Genera— neral Reflections on their Medical Appli- cation. THE term animating means fimply any article of the materia medica which acls primarily on the living principle; or that by which fenfation and motion are produced; and by which life itfelf is fupported. This term does not however imply, that either fenfation or motion are thereby always ex- cited or increafed: for (as has been (hewn Vol. I.) they being often, under difeafe, ex- orbitantly increafed, the reftoration of health depends on their being reduced to their na- tural ftandard. Before 1