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Show Book III, C H A P. LXXVII. " Aving Treated of many Difeafes, relating more particularly to the Head, I willconclude its Pathology With a Difeafe which may claim ttheumy, the Appellative of Univerfal, as it not. only alietfieth the nervous Liquor, isnlvll‘ilibi. and its more refined Particles (the Animal.Spirits) but their fub}e& too, "‘r‘ the fibrous Compage of the Brain, lodged in the highefl Apartment, and all the Vifcem, the choice houlholdfluff of the middle and lowefl: Prory of Bod . theThatilhe nature of the Scurvey may be rendred more clear, I {hall endeavour to give a Hiltory of its Subjeét, Caufes, and Symptomes, in order . _ _ _ . mum feat As to its Subject ( I humbly conceive ) 1t .15 originally feared in the Sto Sims" mach, as it taketh its rife from an ill Concoétion, producing a crude Chyle, (y. fometimes Drowfinefs, and othettimes Watchfulneis, Lightnels of the Head, Convulfions, a Palfey in feveral parts of the Body, caufed by an ill 31¢ch Palate, coming from {harp Recrements of the Blood ( depurated in the oral Glands) fpued out by the excretory Duets into the skin of the Tongue and Palate, which are often bedewed with a quantity of falival Liquor, caufing frequent Spittings, attended with Ulcers of the Gums, loofenefs of Teeth, and an ill favour of the Mouth, I‘tenched with corrupt ferous parts of the Blood, corroding the Gums, and their ligaments, loofening the Teeth fro"; their repolitories; whereupon they grow laxe, and fometimes drop out 0 the Mandibles. . The parts of the middle Apartiment in the Scurvey,are afflicted With great gii'ili-cfffiiihc Stiches, and fhooting pains of the Sides, and Sternon, arifing from "WP mama" Particles of Blood, torturing the (Pleura and Mediai'tine. Thelungs alfO often labour of a great difficulty of breathing, briskly endeavouring by 0ft?" i and carnous Fibres grow flaccide, and faint in their Contractions, fo that the Mufcles often lofe their plumpnefs, whence arifeth an Atrophy of the whole Body, and the outward parts are befet with fpots of various colours, of and other times with Ulcers, flowing from {harp corroding Recrements of the Blood, and with a Scab or Scurf, derived from the ill grofs faline Particlts (difchargcd by the excretory cutaneous Duets) concrctcd upon, and adhering to the furface of the ambient parts of the Body. Having given an account of the fubjeé‘t and the various fymptomes of this Difeafe, and their Etiology, I conceive it agreeable to Reafon, to thew you the caufes of it. , The procatarticlt caufe may be a grofs Air in Maritime and Fenny places, Anollh'llirtiié 35 infeéled with thick and moifi vapors, arifing out of the Earth, as the Air gui'carmc" is poifoned with malignant influences of the Planets; fo that the ill Air (mix- 5mm" ingin the Mouth with the maflicated Aliment) doth very much fpoil its C011C0&ion in the Stomach 5 by reafon the Air having loft much‘ of its tlallick Particles, cannot open the Compage of the Meat, and prepare it for the extracting an alimentary Tinéture, which efpecially happens when the Gran/‘1‘" Aliment it felf is hard to be concoélred, as in Filh falted, and Flelh treated :3322'2, after the fame manner, and hardned by Smoak; whereupon moil of their thesccivcyv fucculent Alimentary Matter is dryed up by Salt, or extraéted by the heat °f the Fire and Smoak', fo that the Earthy and fubtle parts ofFlefh or Filh, can give no Aliment, and put the Stomach upon a. great trouble," to fever, ‘ is little Alimentary Particles from the Tartar, in w ich they are highly and ClOfely confined. , Another reafon of the ill concoéiion of Aliment, ( making a ‘crude Chyle giggfligg repeated acts of Refpiration, to pump the grofs mafs of Blood from one Chlllern of the Heart, (through the pulmonary Artery and Veins) intot 6 other; whereupon the Heart being often oppreffed with too great a {nurse ' eremote caufe of the Scurvey) are the ill Ferments of the Stomach, en- 5:325:11:ng "ed with over acide, or fixed faline Particles, which fp‘oil the bounty of the €231.13» of thick difpirited Blood, is highly dilcompofcd With diforderly pulfitions, (.lhylt‘, and malte an ill mafs of Bliwd, (as deprelfed with acide or fixed fa- ° ' WSW Palpitations, Lypothymies,Syncopes, (fyvr. ‘ . h' Di. "Ll-rum The Vzfiera alfo of the lowefi Apartiment, are highly anoyed in t is ., i tion, which proceedeth from. an ill nervous Liquor void of good Animal Spirits, as loling much of their tenlive Particles; whereupon the Nerves Choler, are carried through the excretory Ducts, and fetled in the Skin; which is fometimes infei‘ted with Tumors, coming from extravafated Humors, Ner-szur', the companions of this Difeafe are alfo Ulcers of the Tongue and ~ "1,3,?" leafe. _ ous wearinefs and great weaknefs ofthe Limbs, rendiing them unfit for mo. Red, and Yellow, as the thinner parts of purer Blood, or as mixed with gill'v‘esyoiuthl and then afl'efiing the coats of the Brain with ahot and ill mafs ofBlood, and ThCSE'm‘ are often felt, proceeding from {harp and ferous parts of the Blood and net- 5Curvt‘yinllvf' vous Liquor, torturing the membranous and fibrous parts of the Mufcles, and higlilllrln; Pcrioilia of the Bones; this Difeafe is alfo accompanied with a fpontane~ "I‘m" indifpofing the Vifcera, as not receiving a due percolation in them; wherephureous7 and faline Particles, unduely exalted, f0 that the Vltal. and nervous Liquor being vitiated and difpirited, do produce a. Complication of Difeafes (feated in many parts of the Body) commonly called the Scurvey, an Imperial Malady, attended with a great train ofSymptornes. In the highefi a partiment it produceth great and periodicalpains, as now m Hm' from a quantity of thin {harp Recrements, folliciting (and corroding) :11: lateflines, in order to expulfion. In this the ambient parts and habit of the Body, Severe wandring pains The"? . . a tomes or the which being not well prepared in the Ventricle, maketh an ill mafs ofBlood, upon the Blood is debafed anddepauperated, as affeéted with grofs ful- The Sim- _0/ the érzrtujjAV-T" Proceeding from lhaip, and pituitous, flatulent Recre‘ments, floating up and down in the Stomach, the fad confequents ofan ill concoétive Faculty, prd‘. ceedjng from ill Ferments; The Hypocondres are often afflicted with inflationsand croakings, which arife from Wind pafliiig down the Guts, ofteii Productive of Cholick pains, when its courfe is intercepted ; whereupon the coats of the Inteflmes are puffed up, and aggrieVed by the tenfive and elal flick Particles of Wind, which always endeavouring to expand themfelves, grow impatient, when they are confined within narrow bounds. Sometimes this Difcafe caufetli a Diarrhata, and othertimes a Dyfentery, cominé 0f the Scurvy. to a Cure. Book lll- ‘ ' ' l 3t Pi",n vommng The Stomach laboureth of naufeoufnefs, belchings, proceeding ‘me Elements) whereupon it may beinferred, with good Reafon, that the material caufe of the Scurvy, being adepraved mafs of Blood, mull necefa E ,4 farily |