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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    with the common.caufes, that there is fcarce any thing which dorh augment the firft effence of the Difeaf, but at the fame time more ot lefsit hath an influence upon the vitiated Tove. Thefe things bring granted , We fay hotwithftanding that in the prefent afteét there 18 a very great dependance of the vitiated Tove upon the firft Effence of this Difeafs' For which refpect alone we have here referred the vitiated’ ‘one tothe fecondary Efienee. Tf any lift to contend, That the [aid Tone in another ve[pett. may relate more clearly ta the Secondary © ence, becaufe he may imagine chat the primary Effence of every Difeaf is necefflarily f- milary and perpetually grounded upon the firft qualities alone; orbecaule he may conceive that the qualities wherein the Tone confilteth are perpetually fecoridarys and that they follow the firft only (asthe fhadow doth the in that man may take notice that we Pr ‘pofely decline fuch queftions, leaft we fhould ftraggle into an unwarrantable digreflion. It remaineth therefore only that we prove the Depen- dance of the vitiated Tove upon the firit Effence of this Difeaf to be véry great, and that we fhal do by patts. We wil begin at the laxity. We grant indeed’ that a laxity may be fomtimes fuddenly produced, and in that caufe 2 moyft diftemper may often follow upon it, Namely, when the laxity primarily dependeth upon the fault ei- ther of the Animal or Vital Conftitution 3 but in, this Difeaf, feing that neither the Animal nor the Vital Conftitution are primarily affeéted, there is a rieceflity that it muft flow from other caiifes. Moreover, fuch ts the condition of laxity and tenfity,that they ate obnox- ious to {udden alterations.For the firings of a Lute may almoft in a moment be ftretched and loofned agains the fame thing likewife from fome caufes befallech. the Fi~ een el Ghia a bers