Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin.

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
Date:
1728
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Credit: Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in determining the judgement for it in an acute Difeax, fo at other times it may be a ftrong Argument againft it, inasmuch as frequent Loflcs of Blqod, are very likely to enervate and weaken the Conftitution 5 and befide, as Dr. IVillis (34) obferves. Bleeding is lefs ef¬ ficacious as it becomes habitual. We are alfo in dubious Cafes to enquire what Light we may receive from the Nature of the Climate, Country, and Seafons of the Year : For if wc look into the earlieft Re¬ cords of Phyfick, we fhall find, that it was thought neceflary, (35) for all Perfons who pra&ifed Phylick, to know the Situation of the City or Country, where they lived, and what EfFe&s it had on the Body in Health and in Sicknefs} they were to be acquainted with the Nature and Properties of the Waters they drank, and of the Soil which afforded Nou- To t/Av (bXefiot (SaXiiv noWa-Ktc, $ . C&i STTlT^sicv svoiAicrcc, \ rl « - ^ 9 v / - i UfMOC Uif/jCATl TtOAAOO (TW iXXplVBTCCi TO (^COTiy^V TTViDf/jOi, TCUTOV 3 C6- HcXtcnCOf/ziVCU ffpKVOTfpoV, OTS 6a/K^ KCtToA/U^irCCi, KM 7.IZVTU. TU ’fy'JfciKU ipycc %u(>ov ztnrcti. Galen, de fcarificatione p. 45^. Tom. }o vid. Ballon, p. 138. (34^) Porro venae fe&io magnum remedium, fi ad par- vas quafque caufas proftituatur, quando opus erit ad grandes affe<£ius, minus efficax evadet, Willis Pharm. Rat.p. 258. Cavendum ne in fecunda valetudine adverf«e praefidia con- fumantur. Celf.p. 21. (35) Vid. Hippocr. de Aerihus, A^uis, et Locis. fefl. 1. E rifhment 3