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Show Of the Tat/90105:} of the Heart. C Book ll. Elements of the Blood are fer much at liberty, and run confufed in the vital that the Liquor, as no: duely confined within the-bond of Mixtion, lo Fpirituous and Volatil parts of Blood, movmg to the Ambient parts, are breathed out through the Pores of the (mo, whereby the'vrtal Liquor grow. . eth very faint, as made deftitute of many Spirituous Particles. 'l l rut lrirrls r: (unturned l‘iVLH. I‘rl'vir E;I::7m ,1. A null revet. TheContinucd Fevers are for the inoft part reducible to Three kinds7 The lition of the Blood in the Heart arriveth to the highefl; degree, procee- of the Blood, which are inflamed by a great Efiervefcence lomewhat diliol- ving the \‘olatil oily parts of the Blood in the Chambers of the Heart, which ding from a great confederacy of numerous Oyly Particles brealtinc forth as it were into a flame, through all the apartiments of the Bodyb aremovedwith frequent pulfations, to fqueeze out this troublefom inflamed _ . . Liquor. and in the Ptate of this Fever, the two great Combatants , l\ature' and the Difcale, do briskly enter the lift, making violent thrufis at each The Febris Ephemera is often qurckly appeafed, as being founded in the other upon the account of life and death; whereupon they both highly en- thin volatil Atomes of the Blood, which do evaporate through the fecret deavouring a conquelt, one of them lofetll the day, fitting'down in a lofs of pailages of the fltin, in infenfible tranfpiration, and more free deu‘s of victory, while the other triumpheth in the pleafant fuccefs of Life, happily changing the aim of the Difeafe into :1 mam, the {late into a declination, tural (Iratis of the Blood is perverted by want of a due Ventilation upon the rtiirié‘tion of the Pores of the Shin, coming from the coldneis ofthe Ambient Air, wherein the hot {teams of the Blood, are unduely confined \V‘ltl'li in the Body ; to that the too highly exalted fnlphureous part over-pouring the other Elements, do loineirvhat unty the bond of Nlixtion, and in a great 441' "4.4V W- talletl dzgn whereupon the fecretions of the recrements of the Blood are made, whereof fome are oily, and others Volatil Saline, embodying with the ferous parts of the Blood (being put into a Finer) which are conveyed from the greater Arterial Branches to the Extremities of the Capillaries terminating into the Sltin which being very Porous, receiveth the fierce Efllnvia, and ferous Recre: merits of the Blood, freely befprinltling the ambient parts of the Body. And this I humbly conceive is the belt, and molt natural Crifir of a Fevdr, when the blorbifick Matter is univerfally expelled through the habit of the Body. Adrift Oily Particles, the temper of the Blood is very much vrolatcd, and times ordered by a Hemorrhage through the Noltrils ', when the inflamed Oyly, and the exalted faline Particles being in high commotion with the Continued Fetter takerh its couife, and by fcvcral Types and Periods, as fo many intermedial paces of accellions and rcmillions 3 the acute Fever ara rivcthits and: The firlt lltp ofthe Difeafe is called by Galen rim? theiife or beginning of it, which firft betrayeth it felf in an unnatural EEC!‘V€fCEDCC days or more, during which time the Morbifick Matter remaineth crude and is Commonly the Vital Spirits the more active and Volatil parts ofthe Blood triumph as con- querors, and the Febrile heat is receptive of an allay, and the molt eminent {igns of Concoétion appear, as the (rt/it of the difeafe is inl'tituted by Nature 5 But the Crifir (I conceive) is lefs perfedl: and beneficial, when more particular Evacuations of the peccant Matter are inf'tituted by Nature, as of the Blood, ariling from a \iolent eruption of combined oily Particles, communicated by degrees to the mafs of Blood, and this continueth for three The Second ilcpr r time which is the fourth and hill Rage of this Fever, fucceeding the Hare, wherein proportion allociate with each other, producing a great llbullition of Blood in the Ventricles of tl‘eHeart, which is {tilt-d by the Antients a putrid Fever, but is now rejected by many, bccaufe the Blood as long as it is a'éled by motion, cannot \thl be liable to puriefac‘tion 5 yet in reference to the putrefacrtion ‘, 3 Continued Fever may be in form fort truely termed Putride, and hath divers Steps commonly called Typo, wherein as in f0 many Stages, "Jl't berm» ta +4 f a pu» {illicitfiih Commotion begin to dawn in a finall fecretion of the impure adull: Particles from the purer Blood, which at this time of the Fever is difcoveted in the Urine, growing more clear toward'the Surface, as the grolfet parts begin to Firlt may be called Ephemera, feared in the molt fubtle and fpirituous parts the natural union of the integral parts much infringed, highly tending to ,\t-/‘, or Of the Tar/10159 of the Heart. precipitate toward the bottom of the Urinal. , The third ftep of a Continued Fever (named by that Great Mai‘ter of our Faculty , may, the {late of the Difeafe) wherein the Ebul- Su'ear. The Second ltind of Continued Fevers hath for its Procataroticlt Canfes, a hot and moill temper, often accompanied with a corpulent habit of Body, derived fromluxnrious Diet, and frequent Blood-letting, which highly inc'reafe the oily parts of the Blood, in the place of Saline taken away:7 whereupon pcrfons accuftomed to be OitCl‘l let Blood grow fat, as havrng their Blood filled with oily parts7 and rendered obnoxious, to acute continued Fevers, proceeding from the lefs thin and volatil Atomes inflamed, as the na7he rlr'lrir'ti(H of the tunes l3 one t hit or a (onti netl ltrct. Book ll. unfeparated from the mafs of Blood. The Second ftep or time of 1 Continued Fever (fiiled by the Author ham) is when the unnatural heat ofthe Blood groweth more intenfe every Fit, derived from a great quantity of inflamed oily Particles, which though they molt eminently appear in the Pr cordia, as parts confining on the Heart, (in which the I‘lflervefcence of the Blood is chiefly feated, yet theft: hot oily Particles of the vital l iqnor are alfo diffufed thence, through the whole mafs to all parts of the Body. The increafe of this hot Difeafe continueth for three or four days, or thereabouts, more or leis, according to the greater or leis degrees of acutenefs of the Fever, when the hill: gliminerings of the Concoétion when the Pores of the Skin being [hut up by ambient cold, :1 Crifir is form- the mafs 'of Blood (cannot be protruded by plentiful Sweats in a free The fourth {tsp of a confinlicrl Fever, calltl 'ijlW. Th: declination of the difcai'c. The fill? Crifl: ofa (ontinu- crl Fever "hen the Matter of the Dil'cale is evacuated by Siitat. The record Uri/Ir of a continued Fevtrtlil'charged by :1 Humortagtof Blood throng}, the Nullrils. tranipiration) are tranflated into diltant parts from the Heart, and being hurried by nnpetuous motions of the Blood through the internal Carotidc Arteries, into the Membranes and Cortex of the Brain, are thence conveyed by the Internal Jugulars into the Noflrils. Whence the danger of their C'Ifi‘ 15, lel't fome part of the Morbifick Matter {hould be conveyed with theBloodinto, and {0 fixed in the fubfiance of the Brain, as to vitiate the AnimalLiquor, and thereby produce a Delirium, Convulfive Motions, as the Subfir/IM Tendimmz, and many other Cephalick diflempers. Again (I conceive) another Crifir may be made in a continued Fever Y another particular Evacuation, when the gtofs Adufl: Particles are fevered like a («put Mar/mm: from the Blood after its Deflagration , and are tranfmitted by the emulgent Arteries into the fubltance of the Glands rela- ung t0the Kidneys, wherein a Secretion is made of the Morbifick Matter with the ft'tous Particles from the more refined Blood 5 and tranfmitted firf't through flit? Urinary Duets into the (Pele/i4, and thence by the Ureters, as Aqueduéis into the Ciftem of the Bladder, which appeareth in a reddifl] Urine, when firft The third Cri(ir is made when the Mattcr of the Continued Fiver. is difthargcd by Urine. |