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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    one is perceived, and the other not, vvc ought in juftice to make an eftimate of the celerity from the large number of the per- ceived motions or ftrokes. Thirdly, the puHe is either equal or unequal equal when there is an exait equality with refpect to the celerity or frequency of the fucceed- ing pulfes, as alfo with refpedt to their largenefs and fmallnefs. The pulfe is faid to be unequal when one ftroke is large and another fmall and weak j or when one is quick and the other is very flow, fo that the pulfe feems to be intermittent; though the intermiflion of the pulfe may be more properly referred to that fpecies of inequa- lity which confifts in a great flownefs. Fourthly, the pulfe is either vehement and ftrong, or weak : the vehenient pulfe is when the fyftole of the heart is performed by a Jarge quantity of moving force, or fpirits; and the weak, when the heart is contracted by a fmall quantity of fpirits. C 4 The