Medicina Gymnastica: or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempersFuller, Francis
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Medicina Gymnastica: or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers
Fuller, Francis
Exercise therapy -- Early works to 1800
The _First_ Reason seems to appear manifest enough, from the habitual
Heat and Disturbance, which are generally complain’d of, sometimes
even upon the first Breaking out of the Cough, and from the continual
Quickness of the Pulse; all which shew, that there is an imperfect
struggle of Nature, frequent and partial Ebullitions, which don’t arise
to a degree sufficient to clear Nature of that which oppresses her;
but yet plainly indicate, that the hostile Particles do not unite, or
accord with the Blood, so much as the Particles of each Disease do
in other Cases; as for Instance, in Scrophulous and even in Cancerous
Cases, tho’ the Blood is loaded with so pernicious and even corrosive a
Humour, yet we find no Disorder in the Beat of the _Artery_, no irregular
Heats, but for some Reasons or other, in the make of their Particles,
they pass better with the Blood, and the Disease is longer protracted;
now I think it seems to be a Natural Consequence, that where there is an
Ebullition or Contention of Particles, there is no Union; and that a more
general and natural Heat, superinduc’d by Exercise, by the Solids acting
uniformly upon the Fluids, may produce a Ventilation of many of those
Particles, which Nature contends so much with.
The _Second_ Reason, _viz._ The Necessity of equal Secretion, is
occasion’d by the Effects of this Hectical Disposition, which by bringing
a Languor upon the Spirits, a Relaxation or Flaccidity of the Muscular
Parts, and even of the Lungs it self, renders Nature unable to bear any
particular Secretion without great Disturbance: Thus we see upon the use
of the gentlest Purging Medicine, the Cough is encreas’d, and the whole
Body for a Time, more than ordinarily disturb’d; the same happens upon
the Use of _Sudorificks_, and indeed scarce any particular Secretion can
be considerably enforc’d, without some Inconvenience following upon it;
so that it must needs be the most proper Method, if we can attain to it,
to enable Nature to do the Work her self, by gentle and even Despumation,
of the acrimonious Particles, at all the Emunctories.
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Medicina Gymnastica: or, A treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy; and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers — John Shaqi
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