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

The ill Success of our Diuretick Method in this Distemper, is very much owing to our giving those Medicines in so small a Quantity, and to our not changing ’em for some of a qui...

I will grant, that they carried these things too far, the whole Education of the _Athletæ_ was blameable; I will grant likewise that they were too Nice in the Exercises for the...

It may be expected, perhaps, that I should endeavour to explain, how the Fibres come to receive a greater Power to act, by being often put upon Action, and to shew wherein the E...

Upon several Accounts, this may be esteem’d the best and Noblest of all _Exercises_ for a Sick Person; whether we consider it with Respect to the Body or the Mind; if we Enquire...

_The Generality of Men, have for a long time had too Narrow Thoughts of Physick, as if it were in a manner Confin’d to little more than Internals, without allowing themselves th...

A Clergyman, with whom I am acquainted, living in the Country, happen’d some years ago, to fall into a lingring _Diarrhœa_, which hung upon him some Years, and eluded the force...

In Respect of the Medicine; It is to be consider’d, that some Medicines may require it, to enhance their Virtue; others to remove some Inconvenience attending their Operation, w...

I know what will here be the Objection _viz._ that these things are design’d only for the Cough, and not expected to Cure the Habit of the Body, and that therefore they may be a...

As to extraordinary Efforts of Nature, to pass by what happens upon a sudden Surprize, Fear, Passion, or the like; it is certain, that Torture will raise the Spirits for some ti...

I shall not attempt to account for the Advantages of this Practice, because that has been done already so copiously by Sir _John Floyer_ and Dr. _Baynard_, and the World has alr...

From these Considerations of the great Ἐυφορία with which we bear Vomiting, tho’ it seems so troublesome while it lasts; I am convinc’d that it may be accounted for after the sa...