A treatise of incurable diseases: containing, I. An essay on the proper means to reduce the number of incurables. II. An attempt to settle a just notion of incurable in physick. III. A specimen of a rational method to discover the cures of reputed incurable diseases / [Peter Shaw].

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763
Date:
1723
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Credit: A treatise of incurable diseases: containing, I. An essay on the proper means to reduce the number of incurables. II. An attempt to settle a just notion of incurable in physick. III. A specimen of a rational method to discover the cures of reputed incurable diseases / [Peter Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ & ] Phxnomena, which are the fame in both. It Ihould follow therefore, that thefe two Cafes differ only as the Caufe happens to be more or lefs perfpirable, 3. 4. 5.6. 10. Does not the Caufe of this Difeafe lurk in the Body in the Abfence of a Fit? i. 7. 8. If the Gout be ever properly hereditary, this is ftill more evident. 11. It appears that this Caufe is depofited upon various Parts by the Fluids ; 2. For the Solids never exchange Places; and confequently the Fluids alone, in the Abfence of a Fit, are the Seat or Vehicle of this Caufe. 12. This Caufe upon manyQccafions 1. is apt to ftagnate, or be depo¬ fited in the fmalleft Canals, and fuch as are 1110ft remote from the ■ * Brain and Heart, where the Circulation is languid, and the Parts are na¬ turally preffed, contra&ed and lefs yielding, 3. 13. This Matter is corrofive 4. <5. 14. As the Veffels are more ftiff and rigid, 12. and the Matter more corrofive and tenacious, 11. 13. the Difeafe will be more fevere. 15. Both the Solids and Fluids being concerned in the Fit, the Cure ought at that Time to regard them both : But in the Abfence of a Fit, the Cure need only regard the Alteration of the Fluids 11. 16. The Cure then in the Abfence of a Fit, is to be effefted, either by a proper Diffolvent of a cretaceous Matter in the Fluids, or by pro¬ per Evacuation. 17. Till the Specific can be found for this Cafe, perhaps Evacuations might be contriv’d, to carry off the Semina of the Difeafe, during that large Interval (1.) which is ufually interpos'd between two Fits; and by that Means a new Set of Fluids be procur'd, and a proper Regi¬ men and Remedies ufed to prevent the future Generation of this Caufe. For if the Caufe of the Difeafe, in thd Abfence of the Fit, exits in the Fluids, 11. and be equally djfpcrfed in them, as there appears Reafon, from the fuppos'd, prefent State of Health, to' believe ; 'tis certain, that an Evacuation of Bloody at a large Orifice would lcffen the Quantity of . . . this