Cursus medicinae; or a complete theory of physic: in five parts. I. The whole doctrine of the animal oeconomy. II. The nature, difference, causes and symptoms of diseases. III. The diagnostics and prognostics of distempers. IV. The method of preventing diseases. V. The art of healing ... With a preliminary discourse of the rise, progress, success, nature and principles of medicine / ... Done, principally, from [the] admirable Institutions of the learned H. Boerhaave ... By John Crawford, M. D.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738
Date:
1724
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Credit: Cursus medicinae; or a complete theory of physic: in five parts. I. The whole doctrine of the animal oeconomy. II. The nature, difference, causes and symptoms of diseases. III. The diagnostics and prognostics of distempers. IV. The method of preventing diseases. V. The art of healing ... With a preliminary discourse of the rise, progress, success, nature and principles of medicine / ... Done, principally, from [the] admirable Institutions of the learned H. Boerhaave ... By John Crawford, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ,, - . . • . • • - i more fubtile parts, and a deftrudion of the fubftance - as is daily feen in thofe plants and animals which too much abound in moifture. On the contrary, thofe bodies wherein it is deficient, as in wood, (tone and metals, preferve their ftate and form for many ages. Salt, in general, has three effential pro¬ perties , ’tis perceptible to the tongue, ca¬ ll ly dilfolvabie in water, and is fpecifically heavier than apy of the other chymical principles. This, therefore, has its parts fo figured and difpofed, as briskly to ftrike and enter the Papilla of the tongue, that is, its parts are folid and pointed ; ’tis, moreover, very porous • and, becaufe, in an equal bulk, it contains more matter, its in¬ terlaces are fmaller, than in the other prin¬ ciples. It feems defigned to render bodies compad and durable ,• and, accordingly, we find, when ’tis extraded, or lofes its force, the body lofes its texture, and eafily crum¬ bles or moulders away. The pureft fulphur, or oil, is vifcous, tenacious, adhefive, and fpecifically lighter than water; when well purged of fait, ’tis infipid and fcentlefs; it lubricates, and will not mix with water • ’tis inflammable, and coagulates with acids ; but liquifies alkalies, and diffolves them; it granulates and con¬ geals with cold^ and, when pure, evapo¬ rates by heat. This principle,; therefore, may ferve, in compofition, to entangle, in- vifcate, conned and bind the others toge¬ ther, and help to confolidate the whole, whilft