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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. 1725 Excerpt: ...Method which has best succeeded, we shall have all the Reason imaginable to conclude that this, as most other Chronic Indispositions, arises from the Contraction of the Hepatic Artery depress'd beneath the Balance efNature, which locks up the Hepatic Glands.-'., / M j and and suffers no Bile, or, at least, not a sufficient Quantity to pass the Porus Biliarius, for the influencing the peristaltic Motion of the Guts; and this appears still clearer, from its sometimes be Nothing is more common than to observe the Histeric Cholic terminating in the JaundiceOne Patient I attended, who was seiz'd with it, aster he had long labour'd under the French Pox; and there are innumerable Instances where it has follow'd upon great and dangerous Fevers; in all which Cales the Solids are apt to relax, and of Consequence recede beneath their just Balance. AViPER-catcHer I was acquainted witii in the Country, who, being bit by one of those venomous Creatures, was suddenly seiz'd with the Jaundice, which, that very Night, diffus'd so sudden Change and Alteration, could not but proceed from the Spiculas os the Venom wounding the Solids, and causing unnatural Contractions, as well in the Nerves as Arteries, whereupon the Blood must disengage the biliose Saks every where in its Circulationand Convulsions arise in various Parts of the Body from a preternatural Stimulus apply'd to the nervose System. And tho' sometimes we observe Infants and Sucklings to be seiz'd with the Jaundice, yet generally they are poor, weakly, puny Creatures, are hereditarily dispos'd to it, and born with the very Picture of Death in their Faces, and even then, for the most part, they well enough encounter with, and a great many escape it; and the Colour is of a light pale Green, inclining more to a Yellow; ...

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