Systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects and plants

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Of the Cuticle, 07' {Bruin/f "Plants". Chap. V, ‘ Ghats. 1V. 0f denying; of in Sign. 57 ,IFJ keth divers Cavities and FurrOWs, often delpoillng the Face of its elegant Air, and amiabie features, and leavrng great impreflions, not only in the _ skin of the Face, but in the Palate, Nerves, and Tendons of the Fingers, of which an inftzmce may be given in a Grocers Daughter of London, in whom, the virulent corroding Matter of the Flux-Pox did eat quite through the Palate, by making a large perforation into the cavrty of the Mouth, and did fo corrode the Netves,Tendons and Ligaments, relating to the fecond Bone of the fore-Finger; that the Bone upon motion of the Finger, flarted through the Skin, and was wholly parted from the Joynts, leavmg a lamenefs in them. Sometimes the Small Pox are not only a Difeafe, but a kind of Symptoms of an elienrial malignant Fever (deforming it With Red and Blew lpots) when it increafeth more and more alter the eruption of the Matter, the caufe of the Small~Pox: And although a greatquantity of grofs Succur mitrz'ciur is vented by the falival Glands into the Month, (by which Nature deliggneth to relieve it felf) yet the Fever gtoweth higher and higher, and at laft the Skin is fometiine defaced with great and numerous fpots, which firPt appearing Red, do afterwards degenerate into Blew, near the approaches of Death, ' An Honourable Lady finding her felf highly difcompofed, drank freely of Cordial Water, which put her Blood into a high effervefcence, rendring it Very hot and thing which being impelled to the cutaneous Glands, where the Purple Liquor is ftreined, and returned by the capillary Veins, while the ferous Recrements are tranfmitted through the excretory Veflels into the molt exterior parts, which grow tumefied into fmall pufiles (the difmal marks of the Flux-Pox) and were aflociated with a great falivation in the Mouth, afliftcd with opening and cleanfing Gargarifmes, by whofe help {he vented tWo or three quarts a day of thick ropy Matter, thereby gi__ \ing frequently a great alleviation to the Pox, which had not this effca: in this Honourable Perfon, in whom the Small Pox was fymptomatic ,becaufe, notwithfianding the free evacuation ofthe depraved 8mm nutririzu through the cutaneous, and falival Glands, yet the Fever grew more and more importunare, by fliewing it felf Eliciitial, and Malignant, when the products of the Pox, the Ulcers grew dry, and fcaled off, then the furface of the Body was deformed with Red fpots, which afterward turnedBlew the niournful Scenes of a difmal Tragedy. The more kindly Small Pox have for their Materz'afltlzfirata, the 8mm milritim, depraved by a peculiar indifpofition of the Blood, often communicated to it by contagious Pteams, impelled with the Air, through the bronchia and their appendant Veffels, into the fubflance ofthe Lungs, where it encounters and infe&s with its Ferment the Sitcom nutricimnunning confufely mixed with the Blood, (raifing in it another ebullition) which being received by the pulmonary Veins, into the left Chamber of the Heart, is thence protruded into the greater Trunks and fmaller Branches of the Ar' Lawn. ring of the Smill Voitis '3 teries; this Fermentation of the infected Blood, lafleth four or five dayS, which is the beginning of the Difeafe. And about the fourth or fifth day, an inflammation of the Skin appeareth in the Small Pox, derived from the vital Liquor impelled into the extremi- a pricar but litllc ; after the fifth day corncth the iu~ creii‘i- oftlie Small Pox. ties of the capillary Arteries interred into the Skin, whence the Face and And now commenceth the time of maturation of them, when thefe little "Chm" round Swellings grow more enlarged, are turned more whitilh, as the 61mm :ll'jflf:h:ihiluxe Nutrient; is more and more fecerned from the purple Juice, and then often- iiiiiilhivcdiil times the Puliles are furrounded for fotne time with a red Circle, proceeding :‘fi'éihfu'nlvyffl from thin blood feparated from the confines of the Smart Nulriciur, and de~ 1°"rived into the adjacent parts of the Skin 3 and about the feventh day the ina~ turation corneth more and more to a height, when the numerous acuminated Swellings full ofpurulent Matter,putioff their whlte Robes,and are apparaleld with a yellow hew, which is the height of the Maturation, happening: about [lilircdpcllinga the eleventh day, and afterward the declination of the Difeafe beginneth; l‘iiialf'l'tiiifie wherein the Ulcerous Matter being dried up, the [mpof‘tumes are turned into 32335:?" Scabs about the fourteenth day, fomctimes leaving behind red Marks and Scars, as tokens of God's Juliice, punifhing us for our Prevaricarions (the caufes of l'lifeafes) and as remembrancers of his Mercy, exprelfed ina imppy recovery from this troublefome and n0ifome Malady. . And that we may give a more clear account of divers difaffeé‘tions of the 3235"? Skin. I humbly conceive, they may be in fome fort deduced, either from Pitcai'ésiism the ill formation of the \ elfels, or Pores, relating to the Glands, or from fe~ Riki??? veral Liquors refiding in, or impelled into the Glands. As to the Velfels, they labour under f0 much fireitnefs, or largenefs, upon the firfi, the Glands grow tumefied with too greata proportion of Viral Liquor lodged in them, producing an inflammatory difpoiition, by the fiagnarion of the blood, whence arife the Eryfipelas, and Scarlet Fever, when the'extreamities of the Veins, are not freely receptive of the Blood, in order to its retrograde motion; or when the minute orifices of the Excretory Ducts "KC"Anlyflamacy Shit-rigid," {{fgrfil,§lr""if,' g'ljrfijt",mj; if nit-vans nifr‘s'iifgci?" are fo reclufe, that they are not capable to entertain the fiery fleams, or ferous recrements of the Blood; or when the Pores of the Skin are rendrcd fo fmall, either naturally by an ill firufiure, or accidentally by ambient cold, contraéiing them, to that they cannot tranfmit the Efliuvia, and Watry, imprzegnated with falirie Particles, to the furface of the Skin, and into the am* bient Air. Whereupon the contracted Pores of the furface of the Body give a check §::§§F;fi; rifwrwzém, the exterior Irtlt/piralia and to the dcws of Sweat, befprinkling Tranfpiration, tofree . . . . . region of the Skin, whence Acute Fevers often borrow their origen, a pro- whcntlren‘ziy bibz'm tranfpimtz‘one, in which the Cutaneous Pores, the fore-doors of the may? Body being\, {hut up, do hinder the fanning of the blood, which add fuel to "W" CPUneotis Pores its unnatural flame ', by reafon the Efliuvia of the Blood ( not duly tranfpi- grepbtirubclcs ring the too narrow Pores of the Skin ) as receiving a fiop,do recoile with the airtight? 1‘ Blood into the Veins, through which they are returned to the Heart, giving atrouble to its Carnous Fibres, and make them more frequently to repeat their contractions, wherein the noble flefhy Machine doth double and treble its motion, as it is more or lefs importuned by the unkindly flame of the Blood; which is Cured by a jufi allay,when Diaphoriticks being adniinifired, the fiery reek of the Blood is impelled from the inward Beceffes, to the am- bient parts of the Body, and by enlarging the more fireitned Pores of the Skin, do give a free vent to the Sulphureous Particles of the Blood, by which it is reduced by degrees to a more regular temper, in which the Fever ( con- Great rain p hers proceed; fifiing in a great Motion and Efl‘erveficence of the Blood) difappeareth. fifilfgfi'gda The fecond difal‘feéiion incident to the Skin,is produced by its too great per- Bldod, by too v Hands are often difguifed with unnatural Swellings, ( and afterwards Pim- forations, proceeding from an ill Fabrick, or from the over-largenefs of the iiiioiifrfaliii'ci ples {tart up in the Skin) arifing from the Blood, not yet fevered from the Sumu nutritim, the Matter of the Small Pox. And Pores, occafioned by the ambient heat of the Air, or from the hot conflitu- affix? tion of the Blood, or by its violent motion derived from immoderate equrcifes, Effigy?" ' R w erein ‘ ''