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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    - - ■—..1—->-- -- - ■ - - ■ • 4 Midicina Statica. Seft. I. Levoa'ihoeck, pretends by the help of his Giafles to have difeovered the Texture of the Cuticula to be fcaly, and that thofe Scales cover one another in feveral Lays, more or iefs according to the different thicknefles of the Scarf-Skin in the feveral Parts of the Body, In the Compafs of One Cuticular Scale, he reckons there may be five Hundred Excretory Channels, and that a Grain of Sand will cover one Hundred twenty five Thoufand Orifices through which we daily perfpire. APH. VI. If eight Pounds of Meat and Drink are taken in ene Day> the Quantity that ufually goes off by Infenfibte Perfpiration in that Timers five Pounds. EX PL AN AT IO N. Whence appears the Truth of the fourth Apborifm : And that what is wafted by infenfible Tranfpiration is to all the ftnfible Evacuations together, as Five to Three. Hence al- fo it ceafes to be a Wonder, that the Body becomes fo much diforder’d by taking Cold, (as it is commonly call’d, which is nothing elfe than a Perfpiratio Diminuta,} more than % any Obftrudfion of the fenfible Evacuations. A P H. VII. The Quantities infenfibly perfpir’dy vary ac¬ cording to the Differences of Constitutions,, Ages* Countries* Seafons* Diftempers* Diet,, and the reft of the Non-naturals. EXPLANATION. So that it is not poflible exa£ly to determine the Quanti¬ ties- of the Perfpirable Matter, convenient to be diicharged in all Perfons, nor are they in the fame Ferfon always alike, be- caufe they are influenc’d and alter’d according to the feve* ral Caufes above.mention’d ; fo that Quantity which is beneficial to one, may be more or lefs than what is con1* Venient for another, and likewife not always and at all times th's ¥ear convenient for the lame Perfon, All which a caf etm