Volume 1

The presages of life and death in diseases. In seven books. In which the whole Hippocratic method of predicting the various terminations and events of diseases, is in a new and accurate manner illustrated and confirm'd / ... By Prosper Alpinus ... Translated from the last Leyden edition, revised and published by Gaubius, at the request of Dr. Boerhaave, by R. James.

  • Alpini, Prosper, 1553-1617
Date:
1746
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Credit: The presages of life and death in diseases. In seven books. In which the whole Hippocratic method of predicting the various terminations and events of diseases, is in a new and accurate manner illustrated and confirm'd / ... By Prosper Alpinus ... Translated from the last Leyden edition, revised and published by Gaubius, at the request of Dr. Boerhaave, by R. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *3 ) Souls, by Plato^ who thought he had found out theSubftance, of .which each of them confiHed; “ for one of them is neceffary for the Nouriihraent: “ of the Animal, is common to Vegetables, and has for its Source the Liver, to which all the Canals or Veins of the Body are diftributed: This may be called the appetitive, natural or ‘‘ nutritive Soul or Faculty ; the other is that Soul which being fuperior to that of Vegetables adu- ates Animals. Thisrefides in the Heart which is the Source of the natural Heat ^ and from which arife'the Arteries. This is called by various ^ Names, fuch as the vital Faculty or Virtue, and the vital Soul, and the Animaanimofa. The third is called the rational, or reafoning, Soul, re (ides in the Brain and preddes over the volun- tary A(3:ions and Senfes.” This Faculty ufcs certain Parts or Canals which are the Nerves by which Means it conveys Senfation and Motion through the whole Body : Thefe are therefore the three Powers or Faculties which defend the Body from Difeafes, fince the animal Faculty takes Care of the Brain, the Vital of the Heart, and the Na¬ tural of the Liver. Thefe Three are compared to Generals of a Caftle, who when they cannot de~ fend it by their own Strength, employ Soldiers in Order to repel the Enemy. Thus any of thefe Powers or Faculties, employs certain Fundlions againft Difeafes. Thefe Faculties are alfo furnifhed, with certain Inftruments which are fubfervent to them in defending the Body ; for the animal Facul¬ ty feated as already obferved in the Brain, has the Nerves for its Inftruments, the Vital feated in the Heart has the Arteries, and the Natural in the Li¬ ver, the Veins, through which the Blood is con¬ vey’d for nouriftiing all the Parts of the Body, whilft by Means of the Nerves Senfation and Mo¬ tion is communicated to thefe Parts, and through the