The new good Samaritan: or, domestic practical physician ... To which is prefixed a physiological account of pulses. Of the properties ... of milk ... Of the recovery of persons supposed to be drowned. Likewise, for the use of married ladies is added the practical midwife / [Stephen Freeman].

  • Freeman, Stephen, M.D
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: The new good Samaritan: or, domestic practical physician ... To which is prefixed a physiological account of pulses. Of the properties ... of milk ... Of the recovery of persons supposed to be drowned. Likewise, for the use of married ladies is added the practical midwife / [Stephen Freeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and frequent pulfes ought not to be joined and confounded with each other. But ic is far otherwife in the motion of the ar- teries, which is continual, and requires no reft, in order to cari7 on a continual cir- culation of the blood from the heart to the arteries, from thefe to the veins, and from them to the heart again. It is not to be imagined, that when after the pulfe, or dilatation of the arteries, no motion is perceived by the touch, the artery be- comes inadlive, and remains in a ftate of reft ; fince we have already fhewn, that im-> mediately after its dilatation, it not only by its proper elaftic force, but alfo in con- fequence of the influx of the fpirits into its mufcular fibres, recoils, and is contraft- ed, by which contraflion the blood is forced into the veins, and a frefh dilatation of the artery immediately fucceeds. Hence the pulfe may juftly be compared to a pendulum, wliich performs a continual of- . - dilatory