Discourses on the gout, a rheumatism, and the King's Evil / [Sir Richard Blackmore].

  • Blackmore, Richard, Sir, 1654-1729.
Date:
1726
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Credit: Discourses on the gout, a rheumatism, and the King's Evil / [Sir Richard Blackmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of which they are full, are enfnared and arrefted in the difproportioned Pores of the Wood, that forbid their Percolation ; and while they are detained and imprifbned there, by the continual Arrival of more fimilar Seeds convey’d in the Stream, the m Collection is ftill encreafed, ’til! by De¬ grees the whole vegetable Mals is rurned into a ponderous Srone of the Figure of the Wood before its Tranfmutation, and the Chaims or Places of the Parts con fum¬ ed and wafted away are gradually filled up by the hard Atoms that flow mingled in the Waters. And as this feems a rational Account of the O rigine of the Stone in the Kidneys, fo it may be extended to others, fince it muft be oblerved. that fcarcely any Part of the Body, external or interna!, are inca¬ pable of Breeding the Stone. The Lungs, the Gall Bladder, and the Liver are like- wife obnoxious to this Bifeafe, though not fo frequently as the Kindeys : And it is fufficiently known that the Stone is often generated in Cows, Oxen, and other Ani¬ mals. But the rnoft celebrated and moft perfeCf of thefe is the Bezoar bred in the Ventricle, according to C^Jius^ of a cer¬ tain 4Perjian Goat, where the petrifying Parts formed in the Stomach by the Coa¬ lition of an acid Salt with a contrary Al-