An introduction to physic and surgery / By R. Brookes.

  • Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.
Date:
1763
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Credit: An introduction to physic and surgery / By R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Others again fay, that the Temperament Is a particular Difpofition of the human Body, which refults from the Properties and mutual Actions of the Solids and Fluids; and which renders them capable of exercidng the Functions proper and conformable to Nature. An equal Temper ament is that wherein the four Qualities, heat, cold* .dry and moiji; or the four Humours, Blood, Phlegm, Bile and Melan¬ choly are mixed in a due Proportion ; in which the Solids and Fluids have a proper Equilibrium, fo that the Fibres are neither too hard, nor too foft, nor too tenfiaje, nor too lax; and which procures by their condant Sydoles, a progreffive and circular Motion to the Li¬ quids, which tend to attenuate them, while the Liquids on their Part have a Confidence and Softnefs proper to comply with the Motion of the Veflels, and to a<5l upon -their Sides by their Eladicity and Re-attion, without Irritation. A hot or fanguineous Temperament requires drong robud Fibres, re¬ gular in their Sydoles and Ofcillations, with a red, foft, balfamic Blood, and full of Spirits; the Perfons are neither too fat, nor too lean, but have a freih, florid Complexion, a drong, regular Pulfe, an eafy Refpiration, fweet Sleep, and are gay, fmcere, polite, modeft and amorous. The moiji or phlegmatic Temperament confids in foft, snoid, lax Fibres, whofe Sydoles, and Ofcillations are weak and languid; the Fluids too aqueous, inlipid, raw, indigeded and copious. The Pulfe is foft, flow, duggidi and deep. The Skin, the Flefh and the Fat are pale and foft. The Hair is lank and of a light Colour. The Perfon is heavy, indolent, timid and. fearful; void of Vivacity, of the Senfes and Actions. The dry and bilious Temperament confids of /lender, Jlijfy dry, hardv tenfive and too elaflic Fibres, which move and agitate the Fluids with too much Impetuofity. The Bile predominates in the Fluids, which are thin, acrid, faline and fulphureous, and irritate the Solids and Sydoles. The Heat of the Body is confiderable, the aqueous Parts are diflipated, the fulphureous are attenuated, infendbie Perfpiratio®, is too copious, and the Spirits are fubtile and,active. The Perfon is lean and dry, the Skin yellow, the Hair red and curled, the Pulfe -quick and hard, the Senfes lively, the Sleep Ihort and didurbed, the Mind ready, light, incondant and choleric ; the Paffions for Pleafure are drong. The cold, melancholy, or atrabilious Temperament proceeds from thick, compact, dry, ftiff Fibres; and fixed, grofs, acid, audere, faline Humours; whence the fydakic Motion of the Solids are drong, fleady and flow. The animal Spirits are grofs and eladic. The Per¬ fons are drong, robud, laborious and a little lean ; their Complexion is brown and blackidi, the Hair black, the Pulfe flow and drong, and their Looks rough ; they are apt to be abfent, filent, grave, laborious, folitary, inflexible, and void of Compaffion ; they are amorous with¬ out Politenefs, but obdinate in Love or Hatred, and extravagant in their Opinious. Their Sleep is didurbed, their Dreams are difmal, they fpeak little, and are fond of their own Notions. C 4 But