A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other things) is shewed, 1. The essence 2. The causes 3. The signs 4. The remedies of the diseas / Published in Latin by Francis Glisson, George Bate, and Ahasuerus Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.

  • Glisson, Francis, 1597-1677.
Date:
1651
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Credit: A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other things) is shewed, 1. The essence 2. The causes 3. The signs 4. The remedies of the diseas / Published in Latin by Francis Glisson, George Bate, and Ahasuerus Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acception ) fall under the Notion of a Difeaf. But fe- tra, and feing that altered color doth hurt no Internal action of that individual : Phyfitians, whoin the def- nition of a Difeaf, have refpeét only to the Internal ac= tions of that individual, do ufually exclude it from the Claffis of Difeafes. Or ifthe vitiated color of a part do chance in fome place to deprave an internal action { which is known only to happen in the Tunicle of the Eye, called Corura) the beft Phyfitians do ever reckon it for a Difeaf, although perhaps fecondarily. But that we may return into the way from whence we have a lit- tle erred : feing that the vitiated Tone may hurt, as we have {aid, the internal actions, it doth not properly be- Jong to that kind of Symptom, which is wont to be cal- led by the name of a changed quality. Thirdly we fay, That this vitiated Tone, feing it is fomthing preternatural, muft needs be the Difeaf it felf. Moreover, the fame is clearly ‘proved by the very definition of a Difeaf. For this vitiated Tone is a pre- ternatural Conftitution, primarily or immediatly hur- ting the internal aétion ; therfore it is a Difeaf. For to what the definition is competible, to that alfo the thing defined is competible. That it is a preternatural Con- ftitution is manifeft by this,becaufe it is inherent in the folid parts of the body : that it likewife depraveth the Internal a€tions,is manifeft from hence, becaufe an ex- tream laxity, lubricity, and flaccidity of the parts being granted, prefently tite agility is weakned, no other caufe approaching, and a certain fluggifhnefs deadeth the ir- ritation of the vital Spirits. In agility, the matter is plain, feing that firm and ftretched bodies, other things being anfwerable are more active, and {9 on the con- trary : ee SOc al aye