Medicina statica: being the Aphorisms of Sanctorious / translated into English with large explanations. Wherein is given a mechanical account of the animal oeconomy, and of the efficacy of the non-naturals, either in bringing about or removing its disorders: also with an introduction concerning mechanical knowledge, and the grounds of certainty in physick. By John Quincy.

  • Santorio, Santorio, 1561-1636
Date:
1718
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Credit: Medicina statica: being the Aphorisms of Sanctorious / translated into English with large explanations. Wherein is given a mechanical account of the animal oeconomy, and of the efficacy of the non-naturals, either in bringing about or removing its disorders: also with an introduction concerning mechanical knowledge, and the grounds of certainty in physick. By John Quincy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xic iieal Agents, that is, of all the Alterations and Chan¬ ges that are brought about in the vifible World by the immediate Agency of Phyfical Caufes, to fhew* I lay, that all our Knowledge of thefe Matters, is taken in by the fame Means, and depends altogether upon the lame Evidences. After which I fhall endear vour to apply it to Medicine, and prove that all we can know of a Human Body, both with regard to the Frame and Mechanifm of its Parts, and to the rectifying of its Diforders by Medicine, to be like- wife upon the fame Principles. The fir ft of thefe I expeCt will be anfwered, when i^appears that all the effential Properties of Matter, (fuch Properties I mean as are infeparable from ic under what particular Mode or Form foever it exifts) are no other than what our Senfes very clearly and diftin&ly difcover to us, and that we have no other way of knowing them but by their Information* And to this purpofe it will be very convenient to go over the firft Notices we have herein by thefe Aftiftan- ces^ that is, thofe Properties of Matter or Body, which from theTeftimony of our Senfes are demon* ftrative and felf-evident, and which cannot but ex¬ cite in every one that attends to them the fame 1- deas ^ and hereby we come by very clear and diltinCt Ideas of Solidity, Extenlion, and Figure. In every Body or Parcel of Matter, under what- foever Mode of Exittence, we immediately find in it a Power of Refinance ^ fo as not to admit any o- ther Body in its Place, unlefs by any external Forces it felf be firft removed out of ir. This we find ne- ceffarily and univerfally to hold good in all Bodies, both fluid and folid. For although the conftituem: Parts may be fitted never fo much to form a yiel¬ ding fluxile Body ^ yet when the Mind conliders it only^ as it is Matter, or fomeihing corporeal, and purines it to its fmalieft conftituent Farts, it wiU b 2 appear