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
Diseases, as is apparent from the Power of so fine a Body as the Air; and
therefore we need not think it so strange, that a little matter should
be able to give a good or bad turn. And if this will be allow’d to be
good Reasoning; what can be so likely to obviate such Miscarriages, as
a due application to that most moderate and easie Exercise, which I
have apply’d to the Cure of this Distemper? That a mild Exercise will
do something like this, may be learnt from the Effects of those which
are more violent; we know very well what has follow’d upon going into
the ~Bagnio~, after violent Exercises, the Blood of those Persons who
have done so, has so been exalted in its Crasis, as to be upon that
very account, fatally Preternatural; tho’ upon the first Thought, One
would be apt to conclude, that such violent Perspirations should rather
impoverish the Blood; but it is quite contrary, just as in Hot Climates,
tho’ People Sweat profusely, yet they are rather the more Brisk and
Lively for it. And thus Moderate Exercise, by Augmenting the Natural Heat
of the Body, will enrich the Fluids, and by encreasing the Velocity of
the Circulation, every the minutest Particle will be brought much oftner
to the Test of the Strainers, than otherwise it would have been; so that
both the Venous Fluid and the Spirits will after an Eminent Manner be
exalted, and as it were Rectifi’d in the making. Therefore it cannot be
a doubt, that these means may improve a Medicine, when it comes into the
Blood, supply its deficiency, and remove the Inscrutable Inpediments in
the Cure of so nice a Disease, as this I am speaking of._
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