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A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D.

  • Young, George, M.D.
Date:
MDCCLIII. [1753]
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Credit: A treatise on opium, founded upon practical observations. / By George Young, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tiices which are accumulated in the night during fleep; whereas thefe fame cartilages, by being comprefled by exercife in the day¬ time, are emptied of thofe juices, which be¬ ing reftored in the morning, make them thicker and more elaftic. Bv the fame ex- periment we find, that fimple reft, without any deep, had more or lefs the fame effedl upon the increafe of ftature, as if the perfon had flept. And laftly it was obferved, that as one quarter of an hour’s exercife fenfibly diminifhed the ftature, fo a full meal of good nourifhment increafed it as fenfibly, and as fuddenly, but it did not continue. Our liquids are likewife rarefied, and perhaps even our bones become larger, I wifti the experiment had been tried after a full dofe of opium. Exercife both abates and increales fwellings in the legs, by propelling the fluids: for, when the fwellings of the legs are the effeft of the weaknefs of the folids, then exercife does harm; but fometimes the vitiated fluids are the original caufe, and then exercife does good: e. gr. after a fradture, a bruife, or a ftrain in the ankle, if the patient walk too foon, or too much, that exercife will infal¬ libly