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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    tfiefe juices continue in a conftant courfe of circa-*’ lation to furni(h and perfect the whole machine; The great number of thefe veffels, their large fize, peculiar conformation and ftru&ure, the parti¬ cular ftru&ure of every diftindt veffel, the general ufe of all veins, the different fluid flowing from each canal, the venal blood thrown into the Vena Porta, sa into an artery; and, befldes all this, the vaft quanti¬ ty of humors flowing into the inteftins, which are nei¬ ther all received into the ladeals, nor expelled as excrements; comparative anatomy, likewife, which difcovers no lafieals in oviparous creatures, but particular paffages in their ftead, that run from the cavity of the inteftins into the meferaic veins, and anfwer the fame purpofe: all thefe things, I fay, (hew what wonderful contrivance there is in prepar¬ ing the nourifliment, aflimilating and rendering it fit for the ufes of nature, the prefervation of health, and continuance of life. And when all the phenomena, obferved from the firft aflumption of the aliment into the mouth, to the entrance of the chyle into the lacteals, are throughly confidered, and demonftrated to proceed from the fabric and force of the veffels, the known qualities of the fluids, and their virtues, difcoverM both by fenfe and mechanical reafoning; there is no occafion to fly to oblcure and uncertain hypo- thefes, or unnatural experiments, to account for what nature alone, when well confidered, will lead us to the knowledge of. We need not poftu- late, that the heat of the ftomach is the caufe of digeftion, or attribute the works of nature to na¬ tural, vital and animal innate heat; or alkalious bile, to change fixed acid chyle into a volatile alkali¬ ous fait; nor need we make ufe of a fictitious acrimo¬ ny, in the pancreatic juice, to caufe a ferment writh the alkali*-us bile; or of precipitation toieparate the feces and cleanie the chyle; of no more ferviceare