The mechanical practice of physick: in which the specifick method is examin'd and exploded; and the Bellinian hypothesis of animal secretion and muscular motion, consider'd and refuted. With ...remarks ... on Dr. Lobb's Treatise of the small pox, Dr. Robinson on the animal oeconomy, and Professor Boerhaave's account of the animal spirits and muscular motion / By T. Morgan.

  • Morgan, Thomas, -1743.
Date:
1735
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Credit: The mechanical practice of physick: in which the specifick method is examin'd and exploded; and the Bellinian hypothesis of animal secretion and muscular motion, consider'd and refuted. With ...remarks ... on Dr. Lobb's Treatise of the small pox, Dr. Robinson on the animal oeconomy, and Professor Boerhaave's account of the animal spirits and muscular motion / By T. Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I cannot fay that I have brought it to any fuch Perfection, but there may be ftill Room enough left for farther Advances. I must here obferve farther, that thefe fcorbutick Taints and Diforders are fome- times mix’d and complicated of the two Species of it, already mentioned, when the Feculences of the cutaneous and renal EmunCtories are both retain’d and obflruc- ted in the Ventricles of the Glands, and the Cavities and Cells of the Membranes. But by confidering the diftinCt Appearances and Symptoms of thefe two different Caufes, their feveral Complications may be well enough underftood, and the Method of Cure directed accordingly. The Fomes, Seeds and Stamina of thefe Diforders, are commonly laid in the firfl Stages and Period of Life, when they are moft eafily cured, and the farther ill Ef¬ fects of them prevented. I have therefore chofen to throw in thofe Confiderations here, which I thought the proper Place for them. Not that all thefe Diforders are pe¬ culiar to Children, but as they common¬ ly take their Rife from the firfl Stage of Life, though they may not often appear in their great and fcnfible EffeCts, till ripe* Years. a A a 3