An Essay on Contagious Diseases: more particularly on the small-pox, measles, putrid, malignant, and pestilential feversWintringham, Clifton
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An Essay on Contagious Diseases: more particularly on the small-pox, measles, putrid, malignant, and pestilential fevers
Wintringham, Clifton
Communicable diseases -- Early works to 1800; Fever -- Early works to 1800; Smallpox -- Early works to 1800
This is occasion'd by the weak Contraction of the Heart, and greater
Viscosity of the Blood in the Extream Parts of the Body, for the
Circulating Fluids being prest on every Side by the containing Vessels,
the more thin and liquid Part will pass into such Vessels as arise
nearest the Heart, and leave the rest more Viscous and unfit for Motion.
The Force of the Heart in the extream Parts being also much diminish'd,
thro' the numerous Ramifications of the Vessels, the Motion of the Blood
will be more slow, the Cohesion of the Particles of the Blood greater,
and the Obstructions in the Capillaries more fixt than in other Parts of
the Body. Now the Heat of the Body depending in a great Measure on the
Attrition of the Particles against each other, this being diminish'd in
the Extream Parts of the Body, the other must be lessen'd in Proportion.
[Sidenote: _Great inward Heat
especially about the Præcordia._]
This is occasion'd by the greater Intestine Motion and Colluctation of
the Particles of the Blood, and the Expansive Particles of Heat being in
greater Proportion in these than other Parts of the Body, from the more
numerous Ramifications and Obstructions of the Vessels, and their
Proximity to the Heart, as appears by _Prop. 2_.
[Sidenote: _Inquietude Watching._]
These arise from the same Cause as the Preceeding, the great inward Heat
being a constant _Stimulus_ to the nervous Parts, and obliging the Sick
to seek continual Change of Place and Posture, in order to abate this
uneasy Sensation. These therefore indicate the use of such Medicines as
specifically correct the Acrid and Stimulating Particles, restrain the
inordinate Effervescence of the Circulating Fluids, and attenuate the
Viscous Cohesions, of which kind are diluting and attenuating Acids,
temperate Cordials and Anodynes, in such Doses and Proportions as are
agreeable to the Age, Strength, and other Circumstances of the Patient.
[Sidenote: _Delirium._]
This arises from the Inordinate Influx of the _Liquidum Nervorum_,
occasioned from its Acrimony, Viscosity, and Quantity, different from
those in a healthful State. Whence the Reflux of the Spirits to the
Brain will be altogether irregular, and the Representations brought by
them Irrational and Inconsistent. As this Symptom may arise as well from
the increased as lessen'd Quantity, and different Texture of the Fluids,
and Springyness of the Solids; so Regard must be had to the particular
State of the Solids and Fluids in every Individual, for the abating of
this Symptom.
[Sidenote: _Stupor._]
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