Part 14

[78] _De perspiratione_, Cap. xvii. § 8-12. and _Aph._

[79] _The works of the late CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM_, T. ii. p. 85, &c.

[80] _Comment. in lib. de Diæta_, p. 228.

[81] REGNIER, Sat. v. The sense of which is nearly as follows:

_Not by intrinsic merit things are tried,_ _But humor, character, their worth decide;_ _Man judging as he’s, at the time, inclin’d,_ _So versatile, so weak’s the human mind._

[82] LUCRETIUS _De natura rerum._

[83] _De Aere, Locis, et Aquis._ FOES. p. 293.

[84] Sect. 6. Aphor. 35.

[85] _De natura pueri_, Text. 22. FOES. p. 242.

[86] Translated from the French. There may also be seen an excellent passage on the force and dangers of voluptuous habits, in a new Treatise of M. PUJATTI, Professor at Padua, long of great reputation for his admirable work _De victu febricitantium_, p. 63.

[87] See GAUBII _Institutiones pathologicæ_, §. 529.

[88] P. 126.

[89] _Excerptum totius Italicæ et Helveticæ Literaturæ, pro anno 1759._ T. i. p. 93.

[90] _On EXPERIENCE._ In German, by M. ZIMMERMAN, vol. ii. p. 400. I take this fragment from those which his friendship has engaged him to translate in my favor. Almost all the other will serve to adorn a work of which I am preparing the publication, which will soon follow this.

[91] The demonstration of this truth may be seen in the part I am quoting of M. SENAC’s treatise _On the Heart_, L. iii. §. 7., a work that seemed to have left nothing more to be wished for upon that subject, if its illustrious author had not, in his promise of a second edition, given us to understand, that he could yet render it more perfect. A great man may surpass himself, and see a point of perfection, which others do not so much as imagine.

[92] _Lessons on his Institutes_, Sect. 776.

[93] _De ratione victus in morbis acutis._ FOES. p. 405, 406.

[94] _De morb. a nimia venere_, §. 24, & 26.

[95] _Instit. de med._ T. vii. p. 215.

[96] This symptom is very frequent among persons who have exhausted themselves by venery, and contributes to prolong or maintain that exhaustion. The smallest temptation produces a beginning of erection, which is followed by an efflux of the seed.

[97] The one selected here is the seventh. This thesis, so worthy of perusal, is to be found, together with a great number of other small excellent works, which are to be come at no where else but in that fine collection of practical _theses_, which M. HALLER (who desires and promotes the advancement of medical knowledge, with as much zeal as discernment) has taken the pains to publish, under this title: _Disputationes ad morborum historiam & curationem facientes_. Lausanne, 1758. The name of the author is a sufficient attestation of the merit of the work, which bids fair to become one of the foundations of a library of practical study. The piece, which I am here quoting, is, STEPHANI WEZPREMI _Observationes Medicæ_, Trajecti, 1756. See T. vi. p. 804.

[98] As he does not particularise the species, it can be no other than the _lamium album_, white archangel, or the _lamium maculatum_.

[99] _A practical essay on the Tabes dorsalis_, _etc._ the fourth edition, p. 20 and 25.

[100] Sect. 10. p. 27. also ROBINS _on Consumptions_, p. 98.

[101] Ibid. p. 26 and 28.

[102] _Medic. annuus_, T. ii. p. 216.

[103] _De perspir. insensib._ p. 504.

[104] _De curat. acutorum_, L. ii. c. iii. p. 103.

[105] Sect. 6. Aphor. 22.

[106] P. 27.

[107] ΓΑΛΑΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ. _Tentamen_, &c. Basle, 1707.

[108] Ibid. Sect. 32.

[109] _De Diæta acuta._ L. iii. c. 12. FOES. 368.

[110] M. THIERRY, anonymous author of _La Medecine Experimentale_. When an author publishes so valuable a work, he ought not to wish or imagine that he can long remain unknown, nor fear the being discovered. The moment that we shall have all that work compleat, it will furnish a considerable epoch in the history of physic.

[111] _Tabes Dorsalis_, Sect. 9.

[112] Sect. ix.

[113] _Epidem._ L. vi. §. 4. Aphor. 14. FOES. 1180.

[114] _Observat. et Curat._ L. i. Obs. 10. T. i. p. 122.

[115] _On sea voyages_, p. 117.

[116] _A Letter shewing what is the proper preparation of persons for inoculation._ Sect. iv.

[117] _Traité de Cœur._ L. iv. c. 1. § 2. T. ii. p. 263.

[118] Sect. 484.

[119] _Recueil periodique d’Observations de Médecine_, T. vi. p. 195. In the second volume of which same work may be seen the description of a disorder produced by the same cause, which deserves attention.

[120] _ΨΥΧΡΟΔΥΣΙΑ, or the History of Cold Bathing_, p. 254, 281.

[121] Sect. x.

[122]

℞. _Myrrh. eclect. unc. S. Gum. Galb. extr. trifol. Terr. Japon. a̅a̅ dr._ ii. _Sin. cort. aur. q. s. f. pil. gr._ iii.

To be taken an hour before breakfast, dinner, and supper, with three ounces of the following draught:

℞. _Cort. Peruv._ ℥ii. _Cort. rad. capp._ ℥i. _Cinnam. acut._ ʒii. _Lim. Mart. in nodul. lax._ ℥ß. _S. cum aq. font._ lib. ii ß. _l. a, f. decoct._

[123] This passage is taken from a Dissertation of this learned Physician, _On the foundations of health_. See the _Danish Mercury for July 1758_. p. 95.

[124] _De puerorum institutione_, Cap. x.

[125] _Supplement à l’Ouvrage de Penelope_, Chap. i. p. 35. “_Amabilis ille Dux se posuerat extra matrimonium; ego illum reposui intra._”

[126] _Medical Observations and Enquiries_, T. i. p. 36.

[127] _In febre ex venere cavendum a venæ sectione._ Syntagma, L. i. tit. 2. c. 1.

[128] _On Sea voyages_, p. 119.

[129] _De perspiratione insens._ p. 514, 515.

[130] _Quod animi mores temperamenta sequentur._ C. 9. CHARTERIUS, T. v. p. 457.

[131] See ROUSSEAU’S _Emilius_, English Translation, Vol. ii. p. 188, & seq. Vol. iii. p. 155, &c.

[132] _De diut. morb._ 1. i. proem. p. 27.

[133] _De locis affectis_, L. vi. c. 5. CHARTER. T. vii. p. 519.

[134] _Prax. admirand._ L. i. Obs. 85.

[135] _Prax. admirand._ L. i. Obs. 109, 110.

[136] _An ex negato veneris usu morbi_, 1722.

[137] PENELOPE, ch. 8. _Des qualités necessaires aux medecins._

[138] NICOLAUS ZINDELIUS _De morbis ex castitate nimia oriundis._ Basle, 1745.

[139] _Nosolog. medic._ T. iv. p. 344.

[140] _Institutiones Pathologicæ_, §. 563.

[141] GALENUS, Libr. _De consuetudinibus_, CHARTER. T. vi. p. 541. M. MATY, _Dissertatio de consuetudinis efficacia in corpus humanum_, Leyd. 1740. M. PUJATI has also given us some very good reflexions on this matter, in his Treatise _De la Diéte des Fievreux_, p. 57, &c. Metaphysicians, who appear to have the best handled this point, are Mr. LOCKE, _Essays_, L. ii. c. 32, M. de CONDILLAC, _Traité des animaux_, p. 2. c. 2. and 9. and the anonymous author _des Elemens de Physiologie_, c. 61, 62, 63, 64. I know a man that, having been waked, above twenty years before, at one after midnight, by an alarm of fire, has since that time constantly waked of himself precisely at that hour.

[142] _Epidem._ L. vi. §. 8. n. 52. FOESUL. 1201.

[143] _De semine_, Lib. ii. cap. 1. CHARTER. T. iii p. 213.

[144] _Obs. Chirurg._ Cent. i. Obs. 22.

[145] Cons. 102.

[146] Cas. 102.

[147] _Institut._ §. 776.

[148] _Consult._ Cent. 2 & 3. Op. T. iii. p. 214.

[149] _Epid._ L. vi. § 3. No. 13. FOES. 1173.

[150] Ibid. LA METTRIE, T. vii. p. 214.

[151] _De Medicina_, Lib. iv. cap. 21.

[152] _Medicus, sive de methodo medendi_, L. i. c. 22.

[153] _Praxis medica_, L. iii. Part. ix. Sect. 2. c. 4.

[154] _De morb. nervor._ p. 717. This Work, gathered from his Lessons, from 1730 to 1745, and in that posterior by some years to the Lessons collected by M. DE HALLER, proves that BOERHAAVE had changed his opinion as to the possibility of a purely seminal _gonorrhœa_; and it is well known, that that great man was always ready to renounce his former ideas to adopt new ones, the instant he was convinced of their being the justest.

[155] G. L. KOEMPF _De morbis ex atrophia_, Basle, 1756.

[156] _Historia plantarum_, &c. p. 51.

[157] L. iv. c. 8.

[158] P. 231.

[159] Oper. Omn. p. 544.

[160] See J. J. MANGETI _Bibliotheca medico-practica_, T. ii. p. 625.

[161] Ibid. 624.

[162] _Colleg. pract. special._ C. ii. T. i. p. 459.

[163] _Usus Opii salubris et noxius_, p. 131.

Transcriber’s Note

Old spelling is preserved as printed. The following changes were made to the text to correct probable errors.

Page vii, “nccessary” changed to “necessary” (the precautions they should judge necessary)

Page 13, “michievous” changed to “mischievous” (ignorant of the mischievous consequences)

Page 15, “succceded” changed to “succeeded” (that pleasure is immediately succeeded)

Page 18, “red” changed to “read” (when I read this observation)

Page 68, “suffises” changed to “suffices” (suffices for the expulsion)

Page 76, “fell” changed to “feel” (they feel, in the same place, an extremely disgustful sensation)

Page 109, “the the” changed to “the” (a moderate exercise of the body)

Page 118, “anænia” changed to “anæmia” (anæmia, or deficiency of blood)

Page 119, “a a” changed to “a” (in every dish of which is to be put a tea-spoonful)

Page 148, “to oacid” changed to “too acid” (a wine neither too heady nor too acid)

Page 164, “stong” changed to “strong” (rigid fibres, and a strong circulation)

Page 218, “doubful” changed to “doubtful” (among the number of doubtful things)

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