A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours: Or, Hypocondriacal and Hysterical Affections with Three Discourses on the Nature and Cure of the Cholick, Melancholy, and Palsies Written by Sir Richard Blackmore, the Second Ed
A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours: Or, Hypocondriacal and Hysterical Affections with Three Discourses on the Nature and Cure of the Cholick, Melancholy, and Palsies Written by Sir Richard Blackmore, the Second Ed
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1725 edition. Excerpt: ...affected. While the winding Volumes of these hollow Tubes, laid and disposed with admirable Art in the Cavity of the Belly, preserve their native Order, Situation, and regular State, they perform their Functions with so great Quiet and Tranquillity in conveying to the lacteal Vessels the nutritious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1725 edition. Excerpt: ...affected. While the winding Volumes of these hollow Tubes, laid and disposed with admirable Art in the Cavity of the Belly, preserve their native Order, Situation, and regular State, they perform their Functions with so great Quiet and Tranquillity in conveying to the lacteal Vessels the nutritious uices laboured and concocted in the Stomach, and in sending downwards by their protrusive or peristaltick Motion, and at length excluding the faeeulent recrementitious Parts to which K 2 the the lacteal Veins deny Admislion, that we are not perceptive or conscious of their Operations; but when they are disturbed and interrupted in their Duty by incongruous and depraved uices, we feel the sad Esfects of that in violent Distentions, or unsuiferable Pains. Now, taking the Cholick as a general comprehensive Term, that signiiics all these Sufscrings in the Intestines and Mesentcry, 'I shall treat of it, as Ihave above divided it into two sorts; one is the bilious or accidental Cholick, produced by an excessive Collection of bitter, acrimonious uices, mixed however with acid and austere in the Parts before mentioned; and the other that which arises from Spasms and convulsive Motions of the Spirits, without such a Load of bilious or sowre Impurities, though not entirely free from them: and this Species is properly called habitual, nervous, liypocondriacal, hysterick, and scorbutick; and it is frequently named the dry Gripes. As to the first sort, it proceeds, as said, from a Fulness of Choler, mingled with other noxious, acid Humours, discharged from the Glands of the Guts and the Pancreas, that meeting in the Cavities of the Intestines, animmoderate (Lmntity of Bile issuing from the Cistern of the Galli an and by their Rencounter cause such...
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