An Appendix to the Fifth Edition of Dr. Brookes's General Practice of Physic; Containing Several Recent Improvements and Discoveries in Medicine. (to - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1766 Excerpt: ... That Bile has a difiblving Power, is evident frons thofe Oifeaf«, where, by being hindered from taking it's ufual Courfe, jt regurgitates backward into the Blood, in which Cafe it turns it:!! to a Water; and for this Rr.ilon it is, that obftinate Jaundices are almoft conftantly followed by a Drop! v. If Bile, infpiflated as an Extract, be rubbed on the fwollen Bellies of Children, it will di/Tolvc the Concretipn? formed in their Jntcftincs, and carry them off by Stool. Jt is fuificient, if a Phyfician knows the Effect of Quicjcfilver, when applied to the Body, though he be not acquainted with it's particular A'ladus optrandi: The Virtu? of other RejQC.dje.s is no Jefs obfcur;.who has ever explained the Manjter by which Scamnjojoy carries off the Ilood by Stool, after it is converted into a putrid Water? Who ever has thoroughly underftood the wonderful Properties of Antimony jn it's feveral Preparations f Weeding will fucceed better in a Pleurify, if tie Sid zffe&ed be gently rubbed at the fame Time the Blood is iffuing from the Vein; or if the Patient move the aflVctca Part, by frequently drawing in his Breath as hard as he can, or by Coughing. ObftruQions in inflammatory Difeafes are r»ore eafily removed in Me» of lax Habits, than in ftrong Men who have been accuftomed to hard Labour. Of an EXCESS cj the circulatory Moiion of the BLOOD. T H E Blood of Perfons in Health is much difpofed toCon-cretjons; and this may be increafed by the Increafe of Heat: Blood thus concreted is not eafily folvable. Whatever caqfes the venal Blood to move more fwiftly towards-the Heart, increafes the Motion of the Hea,rt: Hence t appears hpw a very high Fever may be ra.ifed by tog violent mufcular Motion, or by.violent Frictions. An incrcafed Motion of the Blood...

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