Jow, ,ao4 wjth Blood, and vfry ofteq,;J&>
fetid, Rçhewbi ; many of them
toured on to forty Days, when being counted Confumptive, and
no regard had to the Fever, they expired; their Teeth frequently,
in Twenty 'four Hours, f grew veàysBJabhÿ lhoügh White b$-
nough befcp&i and wRen Dead, purple fpots appear’d thick about
$ieic Neckând Breads, j which Symptoms to me are undeniable
proofs of a Coagulation of the Blood c Befides* can any . one ob-
ljsrvg.the vaft quantity ofrWifcouS; Phlegm expeSoiited, and not
conclude from thence the Serum of the Blood to be Coagulated ?
Or who in the Name of common §enfe, that fees the different
Coagulations perform’d by different Acids, ' and the. various Solutions
from various Alkalies, >will not upon the whole matter Vote
thefe Diftempers to arife rather from theijlrft than the feepd
Principle? But this Hypothecs will feeothe farther illuftrated by
what follows, Let Blood be taken from the Arm. of : an Healthful
Perlon, and as it flows into the .Porringer, mingle with it; jbme
Spirit pf Harts-Hom, Sal Arma. r iT.im&uw |ggÉmon,
and in anotherPomageE mix fome of his imprægnated
with Salt of Amber, in the firft Veffel the Blood remains
fluid and florid, in that commixt with Sal Valat. Oleos. a hzy Pellicle
covers all the Superficies, as in Blood in inflammatory Diftempers ;
proceeding doubtlefs from that Acrid Volatile. Salt, Coagulating
the Serum, which by the heat of the Blood endeavouring to fly
off, is condenfed like Bird-Lime. Note well here, if I miftake
not, this Pbèémmèmn clearly Demonftrates to us the caufes of
thefe’Diftempers, and may be of great ufe in Phylick. The Fa*
mous Malpigbius and BoreJlm, have obferved in that Epidemick
Mftemper m Fifaç that by certain Fermentative Particles, a too
great Secretion of Bile happen’d , iofomuch, that many Alkali-
ous Particles wefe thrown out of the Mafs of Blood, notwith-
ftanding which the Diftemper did not arife from them as fuçh,
but only as they were armed, Porcupine like, with other Morbh
fick Particles.
In
In one Porringer let the Blood remain as it comes out in another
mingle either, Water , Tifture of Tartar, or any
Volatile Alkalious Spirit ; in the firft you will 'obferve i\\ the Superficies
fiz.y, and in the fécond the whole to/be Florid,1 it abundantly
appears hen ce^ that the Vifcidnefs of the Blood arifes not
from Alkalies as they are fdch,,firft,' becaiife Blood mingled with
Alkalies, Becomes Florid, yet that very Blood mixed with, an Alt
kaly, armed with an Açjid* grows thefe'àfe tBe" irioft remarkable
Symptoms obfervablein thefe Diftempers; and as to the
Tfrerapeutfcjc, part I refer it to be deduce^ from what pfècedeS: *
Of Intermittent Diftempers. .
JT is reported by theGermans,that anEagle wasfo Artfully form*
ed of a Certain Wood, that it took Wing to meet the’Empe-
rour Maximilian upon his road,and appear’d as though alive. Tile
truth of this is not our.prefent enquiry, but ari eafie Parallel maybe
produced ; any. one .that reflects .on the admirable Virtue and
force of the Peruvian Tree, amidft the Crouds of almöft hfpathr
lefs Perfons langui (hijag in Fevgrs: Henceitis tbat fopa^uypro-
lifick Witshave been gxercifed in g;qfiieating itsqualifies, an'4
the doubtful Gontroverfy of the, caufe of intermittent Difterqpers,
fome havé placed the feat of the Difeafe in the Mafs of Bipod, as
the Celebrated Willis ;; pthers in the Pancreatick juice grown too'
Auftere, as the noted Syfoius de L e Boe ; others from Salt Humours
thrown by the Arteries ijjto the Miliary Glands,-J as the
Learned Dr. J o n e s , others in a certain Poyfon oppreffing the
Elaftick force of the Animal Spirits, as the late Dr. Morton, and
others in the Nervous juice Vitiated as the apeomplifli’dDr. Cole:
but to make ftriófc enquiries ipto thefe feveral Opinions wou’d be
too tediousa matter, I .fli.all not therefore infift upon them, but
paffing over thefe Philofophical difputes, fhall affign the caufe of
all intermittent Fevers,- their Seat ,ap4 modus; In the firft place,
therefore let usfupppfe all intermittent Fevers to arife from Saline
Particles Coagulating the ferous part of the Blood, the
truth