A treatise of the spleen and vapours, or hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies ... / [Sir Richard Blackmore].

  • Blackmore, Richard, Sir, 1654-1729
Date:
1735
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Credit: A treatise of the spleen and vapours, or hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies ... / [Sir Richard Blackmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    often fuffer the fame Symptoms that introduce a malignant Fever' and fo much refemble each other, that they are not eafily diftinguilhed , and therefore they often impofe even upon Phyficians, as well as the Friends of the Patients, as I have obferved in my Treatife on Fevers. While I agree with Pifo, that the Difeafes which affeft human Bodies generally proceed from the Depra¬ vity and ill Difpofition of the Serum, or Fluids, diftinguiflied from the Blood, I muft explain my Meaning, which I fuppofe was the Senfe like- wife of the Author I have named ; that is, that the Serum, which wa¬ ters the Traces of the Brain, and paffes through the Medulla Spinalis, and the minute Tra&s of the Nerves, is not fimple and unmixed elemental Water, but fuch as contains the ge- J * , O nerous and acftive Principles of re¬ fined Sulphur, Spirit, and volatile Salr3