A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers : wherein, besides the appearances of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explained. To which is prefixed, An essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine.

  • Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743.
Date:
1744
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Credit: A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers : wherein, besides the appearances of such, and the manner of their cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explained. To which is prefixed, An essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Learning in general, that a Book containing, at leaft, all that is already publifhed on this Head were compiled and fet in a clear Order* It is true, the noble Leibniz has promifed iuch a Book as this, but I am afraid his great Employment will deprive us too long of that Advantage: Befides, I doubt he will not con- defcend to the Capacity of the lower Rank of Geometers, for which fuch a Book fhould be principally defigned. Carre indeed has given the firft Rudiments of fuch a Work, but he is fo far from giving an Account of ail that is publifhed this way already, that I am afraid he has not underllood them himfelf, his Perfor¬ mances on that Head being fo very low. A fecond Thing, which would very much con¬ duce toward the Work we were fpeaking of, is, that the great Geometers of this prefent Age would be pleafed to publifh thofe many noble Secrets of Geometry and Philofophy, which, to the great Detriment of Learning, they think fit to conceal: What Reafons they have for doing fo, they know bell themfelves, but I am fure it would be a greater Honour . done to themfelves, and a greater Advantage to the Age they live in, and in particular to the Mathematics, to communicate to the pub¬ lic fuch things, as they know have not as yet been made common, than to keep up the Method, now in Vogue among fome, of pro¬ pping hard Problems, (which are at lead: fup- pofedj known by the Propofers,) to employ the