
- 'Twü fflÊÊPfóp ööé^Öïflande rdf1 a <DröpFy ’pfoeèeding^fitórh art
uhv$êÜdy ^ n étl ;icifi%a#(I8PMP mèydrtP'Mèdp 'p llËhifcfofhif
Arts, andUlhèr öfMddcBefter SèHból,whoês I cqrijelTüred'Mif
ltffeëur?d undeifk ’Dropiy/J and ah Hèfrhia Intejiinalis, ïor !nelh two
Yëëfè £ for all the iMegimehts bf thé were lufpended
likea large'Satchelbëtwixthis Thighs, and-Were no Iittlé^ïfbüP
bië to him irfWalkihg^ Various Methods Were Eflay’d^ arid for
about^ Twelvemonths heTeem’d to be relievëd , but ■tHë’-föllowand
itf thé Ipace óf '‘ ffiree
Weeks an Hundred and Twenty Pints of fetid Water, • Mtïéd
through the Velamim of the Scrotum, which at length Sphacelating
he dy’cf ] His Body being opened, thé fobftance óf thé Chfe
was found to be very Sehirrous, over all the ‘Rëgióri óf thèÓföin,
the Membrana adipofa was foil feven Inches Thick, the-Stomach,
Liver, Spleen, Inteftihes, and Mefentery Glandules,;i were in
a found and healthful State § The Peritoneum was ehtife and firm,
a Comer o f which Membrane pierced through the whole - fo©
fiance of the Liver, “and ad her1d tó the ^ertebfe Of -the Spine^
there were betwixt Twenty andThirty Saakles Öf'F^about'ffie
fize and ffiape o f Pears, that adhered to thë Èöwëls, but within
the Cavity not one Spoonful of Water: Through'all hisDifteinber,
die Eat, Drank, and Digefted well, and plentifully , had niok extraordinary
Thirft, and voided Urine in qbaMïy mfficiëffl,^aiid
only that the fwelling daily ëncrëafëd, he was otherwlfobo ways
indifpofed ; This muft needs éhfoe from that weighty fubftance
Of Fat prefling upon the Lymphatick Veffels, and thence Ob-
ftru&ing the due Secretion of thêlympba, the Dropfy followed.
Having thus as briefly, and comprehen lively as poffible run
through this large Field of Chronical Difeafes , from which Hy-
pothefes many other Corallaries may be deduced, I lhall now de-
fcendto treat of acute and intermitting Diftempers, and fo clofe
the Chapter.
S E C T .
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IV;
Q f vJcute Biftmpers. m general, particularly the tefikm idl
Fevè^ raging'in Lanciafhire | in the Tears 1695, S
W P
T Here is fcatée any Year fout thefFenerj receiyessfomemew
oÀppellaüïfc'fo©,rb rbd fostmbniiEebpteyShut fhofe^Egsers
tha t; page.' cHièiy dfoongfo; oe]â()fetSea%n.s^as thdSpring.arid. Fa&
mayher^ageditoiiiefe two>H:eais ;lThdy ane;;eMaen'inflan\ma-T
totyp malignant,^intermittenti Fefeers, : of tbeÿ.attô limply;, inter!
raitfenfc;' doegdl
nothingisimore familiar to us.than; an ihftf mmatiqnofithe Bloody
but what is meant by i®ftammatjon|foemsiy^ofos(t|Of %pifolvte4 i
The Cfefeksdiiid© inflammatâoasiinfo twoISpéc^sÿ»^^»?^:^!
fXoj/a»^ i and; \ thefer;frWo5T ermsd ^ie-ftaken!..'.rèit|îéütitt.ailaxgei or
ftri&Seafeÿ when at: large they foeân anyiimroodffidateoflufhing»
Momentaneous heai^ that appears withdht a Tqfeoft ÿifosh as
prefeht themfelves. daily in SçothüMck ,Gafos,’f ButjWhen ftri&ly
taken thèyifîgnily'to us a, feÿgrÉfl hotrfwellingi,. fëd^ àndrpafofol
in itheqfléihy Part^v4 Fth? ROdyy iprQceedingtfooiytisijC^ll^ion?.
and flÿ^a^on of bvèiiHeatëdBlG^y ;Vic^tlyiiflcwihg;ap0Ri.thO
Part, .amddifturbing all the inferioür Orders! Of r-îVeiféls ■around
itjbut aisefeidiftihOlions of iniammaticfesqpur 'MQdemiAuth,^
take no notîcelof j ! dur Ç-elébntkûuSydetiharp makes no differënc©
feetsyixt Malignity and' InflammaitiOnf,: but<. as the Blood is more
or defs Inflamed,foiis the,Malignity rgçeafonfor'lefsi|a§fortMltJ^
nity jbfëlf 1 he condemns it as a fobterfuge of:ignoranee^i ye%i©ir(
plains adtijwhat hé v m’eans.by inflammation, of the ; Blood, Ijis
wholenpef formantes Saihei délineatéïto uSLthq^jFe^^thancatifëS
of ihflammatiori i; 1 The Emlltfi^l41£ptt^l^ysÿjthef inflafnniathjni;
continues until the Febrile Poyfon, the Primary eagle, qf inflammation,
is either expell’d by Art or Nature, pr that the Spirits
§nk under it t by which account- it is' very „plain he places the
caufes of inflammation, in a certain Poyfon ppprefling or deftroy- I ing