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Show Book II. Book Ii. Hm" Off/)6 Elder/30103) of the ,. firli made, which a little while after groweth thick and turbid, and is af. terward precipitated 3 So that the Adui't Particles, the more groi's Contents having recourfe to the bottom, the fubl'tance of the Urine groweth clear and evaporated, the equal Mixtion is difl'olved, and the grofrer parts being affo, ciated, do quit the Serous Particles, and the poyfonous Miafmes infecting the Blood, do caufe it to Coagulate fomewhat after the-manner of Milk tranfparent. mixed with Runner; whereupon the red CraITament is rendred Grumous, as well as the Chymous parts, whence arifeth the @olypm of the Heart, as alio Syncopes and Lipothymies, 0c. The way of communicating poyionous fieams to the Vital and Animal Liquor, in reference to the produétion of Malignant Epidemical Fevers, is The way of!nfeflion in Malignaet Fe; CHAP. XXV. from the Air by infpirarion, wherein many [aline and fulphureous Mercurial, Arfenical, and other Exhalations of the fame figure and nature ( coming 0f Malignant Feverr. The nature of Malignant FCVCIS. '1". e Syrup. toms of Malig ant l-‘c- leis, He third kind of Continued Fevers, commonly called Malignant, difltreth in fubfiance from the ref}, and ai'ifeth from the mats of Blood fecretly envenomed with fome noyfome Miafmes, whence immedi‘ ately cnfuethafuddain dejeétion of fitength, wherein the temper of the Blood being violently dilbrdered, its Compage is perverted, and its Mixtion is in a great part difiolved, as the Elements, the integral parts of the Blood, from poyfonous Minerals of the Earth) being confederated and received into the Lungs, do mix with the mafs of Blood : Thefe Efllurz/ia being of a mof't fubtle difpofirion, do infinuate into the Blood, fometimes precipitating it by the reparation of the Serous Particles from the more thick Purple Liquor, and other times making it fiagnant in the Veliels and Ventricles of the Heart, do generate a coagulation of the Blood, producing dreadful f'ymptoms. The Malignant Vapours refiding in a poyfonous Air, make impreflions more readily in ill maiies of Blood, full of fulphureous Particles eafily brea- king out into a feveriih flame, efpecially in timorous perfons, wherein the are in a manner feparated one from another, attended with horrid fymp- toms, tw‘d. Stupor, Delirium, Convulfive Motions, the trembling of the Tendons, and the like, the fame kind of accidents, which accompany the drinking of Poyion, or the biting oi Vipers, and other venemous Animals infecting the Blood with fubtle Venenate Atoms, {mall in quantity, but great in power (deitruétive to the conflituent principles, relating to the mafs of Blood) which is difcovered in the fpeedy perverting the Crafi: of the Viral and Nervous Liquors; whereupon the functions of Life, Senfe, and Motion are ill celebrated; So that the harmony of temper belongin t0 the Blood is difordered, and the Oeconomy of Nature violated, the difmal forerunners of death. If a curious {earth be made ( for the better underf'tanding of Malignant Ferers) into the nature of Poyfons, What alterations they make in the con{ifience of the Blood, they will be found very different, by reaibn Tome Povfons making a fulion of the Blood, do precipitate its ferous parts ; others do produce Swellings, by throwing the malignity of the Blood into the extreme parts, and do impel the ferons Recrements by the terminations of the Arteries inferted into the Cuticular Glands, wherein a feparation being in- flituted by Nature, the ferous parts do pnfi‘ up the Cuticula and make @14fller; which I (aw in a Perfon of Honour, a Patient of mine poyfoned with Arfniclt, in whom the fulphureous and faline Particles of the Blood being highly enraged, do produce a great ebullition of Blood, emulating the Fit of a Malignant Fever, which was at Iait difcharged by the eruption of numerous Pimples ( filled with the Serum of the Blood highly precipitated) befetting the Curricula of the whole Body. Sometimes the Spirituous parts of the Blood are highly evaporated by poyfonons Miafmes, wherein the particles of Salt and Sulphur are f0 highly exalted, that the Blood becometh ié‘terical, by too great an amt/ion; So that it is fomerimes hued with The Blood is 'coagulaterl, putrctixl, and the bond of Mixtion high- ly dil'otdtred in malignant ferns. Yellow, and other times with Black. And there are other Poyfons of another nature, w h ich are more dangerous, as deflrué'tive to the Compage of the Blood, in producing firit a Coagulation, and afterward Putrefaétion; So that the Spirits of the Blood being evapc- fieams of infeéied Air are fpeedily conveyed inward with the Blood into the Chambers of the Heart, ' vets. ' |
