The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].

  • Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.
Date:
1740
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Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. STDENHAM's PRACTICE. of PHYSICK. EASON dictates, if I judge right, thata Dit eafe is nothing elfe but Nature’s Endeavour to thruft forth with all her Might the morbifick Mat- ter for the Health of the Patient, though the Caufe of it be contrary to Nature: For feeing it has pleafed GOD, the Governor of all Things, that Human Na- ture fhould be fitted to receive the various Impreflions that come from Abroad, it could not be, but it muft be fubje&t alfo to many Difeafes; which partly proceed from Particles of Air, ill agreeing with the Body, which when - they have infinuated themfelves into it, and are mixed with the Blood, affect the whole with a morbifick Contagion ; partly from the various Ferments or Putre- faction of Humours, which are detained in the Body beyond their due Time, becaufe it was not able to di- B geft