. Synopsis medicinae: or, A summary view of the whole practice of physick. Being the sentiments of the most celebrated authors in all ages, relating to diseases, their causes and cures. With most cases in surgery and midwifery. To which are added, some observations very rare and uncommon, and a curious treatise on all sorts of poisons. . CHAP. CHAP. XVI. Or^ The Sixteenth Aflemblageof Diseases. Being a Treatife of Foijons • Collected from the beft Authors, afterthe Manner of the freceeding Chap-ters, not without Contributions oj myown here and there inter (perfed. <fH Proem. ArU lW SUXSSft
. Synopsis medicinae: or, A summary view of the whole practice of physick. Being the sentiments of the most celebrated authors in all ages, relating to diseases, their causes and cures. With most cases in surgery and midwifery. To which are added, some observations very rare and uncommon, and a curious treatise on all sorts of poisons. . CHAP. CHAP. XVI. Or^ The Sixteenth Aflemblageof Diseases. Being a Treatife of Foijons • Collected from the beft Authors, afterthe Manner of the freceeding Chap-ters, not without Contributions oj myown here and there inter (perfed. <fH Proem. ArU lW SUXSSft E h^etoo frequently expenenc d that theLives of Men, whohave received anypdifonous Infeffion,are in extream Diftrefs and Danger, and at-tended with every Thing but Delpair ; andthat, where Symptoms of fuch Dilbrders ap-pear, Medicinal Application muft immediate-, ly be made, for Delay is Deftruction. Thisinduced me to add a Sheet or two on this Sub-ject, as a Matter of no fmall Importance, thatin difficult Caies requiring fuch Difpatch, thislittle Performance of Mine might be referredto for Direction and what. Art. 1572. Whether any Thing be abfb-lutely, and in itfelf Poifbn, is yet a Subjectof Controverfy. Nay, Paracelfits makes noScruple to affert that all Things are Poifons, and. Chap. 16. Of Ppifons. 315 and nothing void of fuch a noxious any Thing be Poiibn or not, is de-termined entirely, according to him, by theQuantity taken. Meat or Drink of any kindtaken to excels proves often Poifon in theEvent, or, which is the lame thing, caufe aviolent Death. But when we fpeak of Poi-fons, thole alone muft be confidered as fuch,the lmalleft Portion of which is to a HumanBody remarkably injurious. Art. 1573. Poiibn in general is that, whichinwardly taken or admitted from without by Uono* ot*onfome peculiar Quality or Power of acting isto our Bodies exceedingly pernicious. To bealways fatal to Man is not eflentially in Poi-fon \ but it may lufficc, i
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