The Elements of Medicine Or, a Translation of the Elementa Medicinae Brunonis (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788. Excerpt: ... that, if the apparent debility were real, stimulants would be of service, and debilitating remedies of disservice (z). But the reverse is the truth. For the same debilitating powers, which cure the other symptoms of confefled excessive excitement, also remove ing to morbid state; because the distance of the excitement from indirect debility, which puts an end to excitement, is greater in the former than in the latter cafe. The difference in the well-supported labourer is 30 before he can reach an encrease that leads up to 70; whereas that of the gentleman is perhaps not more than 20. The exertion in the struggle adds stimulus; which will be better borne by him who has least and yet enough, than by him who has more, but of a superfluous degree, and more liable to run into the extreme of a ceflation of excitement. The effect of the exertion in the labourer will be to carry him soon up, by its stimulant operation, to the degree of excitement where the gentleman began, suppose, that to be 50, and perhaps by and by to 60. But the fame stimulus of exertion in the gentleman will have the effect of first mounting up to 60, and by and by to 70, where the excitement begins to cease. (z) Who would administer wine, opium, and the other high stimuli, whether durable or diffusible, to cure the inability to perform motion in either peripneumony or that rheumatism which is highly sthenic? Or rather who would' think of any other means of removing that symptom, than the debilitating powers, so effectual in removing all the rest, and not less so in removing them? this indisposition to the performance of motion; and the contrary encrease the affection. CCXXVIII. Again, in spasms and convulsions, either of the involuntary motions, in the internal parts, as in dyspepsia (a), i...