Volume 1

A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers; wherein, besides the appearances and manner of cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explain'd. Together with an application of the same theory to hectick fevers: and an essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine / [By G.C].

  • Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743.
Date:
1722
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Credit: A new theory of acute and slow continu'd fevers; wherein, besides the appearances and manner of cure, occasionally, the structure of the glands, and the manner and laws of secretion, the operation of purgative, vomitive, and mercurial medicines, are mechanically explain'd. Together with an application of the same theory to hectick fevers: and an essay concerning the improvements of the theory of medicine / [By G.C]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eiij when I was fpeaking about the Ad¬ vantages of Vomiting. But here it may be very fairly ask’d^ why (fince I make the Obfirudions of the Arterj and Ner^e which conftitute the Glands^ the principal Caufe of Fe¬ vers) do not I allow Me5:urial Medicines (which all grant to be one ol the mod proper, and perhaps Specific Remedies of Obftrudions) to be one of the Steps of the Cure of thefe Fevers ? Before I anfwer this Queftion, I lhall, i. Explain the Nature of Mercu¬ ry. 2.1 fliall Blew the Manner of the Operation of thefe Medicines j and, 3. The Advantages and ufefulnels of them. I. to the firfi I fuppofe. I. That pure Mercury, or Quick- (ilyer, confifts of Parts (I mean thofe of the foil Compoiition, by which I under¬ hand an aggregate of the Imalleft and lead conftituent Particles of any Body, and an Aggregate of thefe Aggregates I call of the fecond Compofition; and fo on) exceedingly fmalk equal, and per¬ fectly Spherical. T H r s