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Show "f. 7 77% 3" - 1204. Of 129 Scurvy. Booiltl I I Book Ill. ,1» _ farily indilpofe all the apartiments of the Body, and the various integuments, encircling them, and all parts, lodged in their warm Bolome. The fource ofthis Difeafe innit be in the noble-ll Liquors (pafling the whole which are the vital and nervous juyce, giving Life, Heat, Senfe, Motion and Nourilhment. ' rimmed ism That the Blood hath a great [hate in the production of the Scurvey, may Eiiifiiici‘ic be made appear by its high ebullition, and fermentation, and by various ""5" {pots and little Tumors, belettinio7 the Skin, and a thick high coloured Urine much refembling Lees of Wine in colour and confiltence. ' "1mm, And not only an ill mals of Blood, but a depraved nervous Liquor (offal 33:23:23: infected by it) very much contribUteth to the generation of this Difeale,dc. {in minor elated in the moll tronblefome pains of the membranous, nervous, and temp 1'" nous parts ofthe Body, giddinels of the Head, and its \veaknels, and Convul. five motions, lponraneous wearinels, and a paralitick dillemper, which do 3]] flow from a vitiatcd nervous Liquor, fpoiling the tone of the fibrous Compage of the Brain, and Branches, and plexes of Nerves imparted to the whole Body. ncomwri: As to the ill confiitution of the Blood (produélive of the Scurvey) In. lfiiiiozfieliilii: genious Dr. Il'illi: compareth it to Wine, which laboureth of a kind of "‘BBIW' Sieknels, as Well as Blood, upon a double account, either as fome extraneous ingredient ( not eafily mixing with the Liquor) is put intoit; or when Fxtraneous Eiffl'fE" the craiis of the juyce is perverted, becaufe one or more Elements are too much deprefled, or others too much exalted. As to the fi:fl it may be obferved in Wine, that where fome Greale or Brimlizone is call into it, a great Fermentation arifeth, and unlefs it be allay- winc. mm- ed in a (hort (pace, the bounty of the Wine will be deftroyed, and alterthe iiiilliiiiitiin fame manner, lome heterogeneous Body, running confufed with the Blood, L?‘2§f,'f,‘2"ms doth diflurb its regular motion, as a Chyme being crude, or endued with acide or faline Elements aflociateth with the Blood, and rendrcth it highly Fermentative, and obnoxious to variety of difeal‘es. $23,351,? Wine, as Well as Blood, doth firlt degenerate from its laudable and native 111:3}! iiiii: difpolitioii, as being debafed or corrupted, when its fpirituous, and more ananti lpiiltulius ive prinCiples of Salt and Sulphur are overpowred by other grols Elements; E 0f the Surrey . 1205 __ _ _ _ _ ___ L- Foiirthly, Wine loleth its good temper, when its fpiritiioiis parts are toomueh deprtlli‘d, and theliilphureous and l‘alll-K' Elements (beino in combination ) are too highly advanced, growing vilcide and inucilaginous; wherCUPOU Wines become over-fretted, or ropy, as the Vintners ( the Ma- litl‘s of the Art ol curing Wines) do phrafe it. Generous Wines upon the Lees in hot weather, have a long and great Fermentation, as the various Elements have great contefls with each other, and the fpirituous parts do partly evaporate, and are partly conlounded with more gtols Elements; whereupon the Sulphur being very exuberant, is more and more exalted, and the fpirituous part adliazring to the laline, doth advanccir, and alter the mixrion of the Elements (to which being added, the eminent combination of the Sulphur and Salt) the \Vine acquireth a rancide, oleaginous Conlil'tence. And the Fermentation of the Blood in the Scurvey flimewhat refembleth that of Wine,in reference to the former acide difpofition, coming from Ciline Elements, brought to a Fluor, which appeareth plain in acide, faline parts (oleittle fpued out of the oral Glands) with ferous Liquor, difcharged out of the glandulous coat of the Stomach, by excretory Duets into its Cavity, and afterward thrown ol't‘ by Vomiting. Blonlrsfmas atoning blah WW' 22,22,23b|¥,22‘,° ms?" I And the Blood alfo is like over-Fretted \Vine in its exalted Sulphur, and Wincand Salt ( as nearly aflbciated ) making a rancide clainmy quality in the Blood; gin??? whereupon it grovVeth grofs, producing a Cough and difficulty of Breath- fifflffl"; ing, and a Leucophlegmatia, as ltagnating in the fubfiaiice oi the Mulcular figm‘it: parts of the Body. on. Farthermore, the Dyilc1‘afy of the Blood in a Scorbutick habit ofBod-v1 is lomewhat related to Wine, as it proceedeth from fiilphureous-laline Ele- ments, when the Blood is over-powrcd with Sulphur, entring into confedc.' racywith a lefs aé‘tive Salt; whereupon the vital Liquor, acted with an over-herring motion, doth difcliarge its adiil‘t Recrements by the hepatick Glands, and excretory VeITels, into the Duéiiirt*l)olidatbm,and Inteltines, and ' its faline Particles into the Renal Glands, and Urinary Vellels, and Ureters into the Bladder. And the Sulphui'eous faline Recrements of the Blood, being of a refilefs P‘Ilichcxilced {2222122123,213 whereupon they cannot extricate themfelves, and grow clear and lpirituous, Fermentative dilpofitiou, are tranfmitted out of the Left Ventricle ofthe iiiiliriflar‘ilxihc Elisha" but remaining grofs, the Wine is endued with an unpleafant Tali, degenerating into a paled l iquor, called 7:117sz in Latina. The Blood is {omewhat 31in [0 this kindpf lick Wine, as its more agile, volatil, {aline and fulphureous Particles are depreflbd by more gi‘ois, lo that the vital l iqUOY hecoineth crude and Watry (as in a Di‘opfy ) void of a. due Confil‘tence and fpirituous parts, which give Life and inteliinc Motion to the Blood- ch55: tillat lafi they land in the cutaneous Glands, wherein the adult and lib ""1" "Mine Recrtments ( being fecerned from the more pure parts of the Purple Liquor) are carried by excretory dué‘ts into the furface of the Cation/a, where Heart, Firll into arterial Trunks, and then into finaller and {mallet Bran- gigifiifljg ‘th are letled or concreted, making Spots, Scabs, Scurfe, Tumors, Ulcers, Wine and Hood grow Secondly, Wine lofeth its good temper, as the fiilphureons parts grOW‘ :Ll‘izigifram ing too exalted, do raife an immoderate efl‘ervef‘cence, called Fretting by (9% And if thefe fulphureous and [alt Fitter of the Blood, be tranfinitted by the caeliack Artery into the Stomach, they produce great pains, Voinitings ; and if they be difcharged by the mefenterick Arteries into the Intelhnesnhey "twin," the Vintners; and not unlike to this the oily parts of the Blood, gt'mnga "lake Cholick pains, Diarrhxas, DyfeiiteriCS,c§'€- :§',;2;‘,2‘lffks' high Dominion over the Saline, do make a great ebullition in the Hm"? And if the faline Recrements of the Blood being more predominant, do iaiion Tl" l‘rmm‘ is more Embed}, With the concreted oily Particles, the ebullition and fermentation of Furniture produé‘tive ofa Fever. .Tliirdly in Wine, the Spirit being evaporated by the ambient heat of tllC‘ 3133?: $3,331,311? Air, or the lulphureous parts being too much deprelii‘d ; the saline Q‘Trfét M [WIS the other Elements, and turn Wine into Vineger; in this a parallel of." 1"" £325,323: may be made with Blood, labouring under too active fiiline parts, which 5" ing over-exalted, do obtaina Fluor, and render the Blood acide, found 1" melancholy diltempers. Fourilily'y 2 , . . . whcntlic Sathe vital Liquor is more moderate; and f0 its tancrde, or mutilaginous Linca'cpre. _ i . ominanl Partitles, make a flow circulation through the Vifctm, wherein great ob- 0mm, 5.". mélions are produced, as clammy parts of the Blood do adhere to the lich thwsi . i , ' ‘ Olthe Veflels ' , Th in l their pallagea produeinga Jaundlfe m the Liver, 3102373121). motion of the Blood in the Renal Glands generateth the Stone inandthea flow Kid- iiiliiiiiciiif .nel'h When the Tartar ofthe Blood, (alloeiatcd with vilcide Recrements) m hm, 13Concreted: and thisgrols niucilaginous Blood (palling through the;E fubanee |