. Annals of medical history. fied with this diagnosis and proceedsto enlighten the reader on his own account,though he can hardly have been oldenough- in spite of his vaunted precocity,to have been consulted in the case. If thediagnosis of William Harvey- and his fel-low consultants and of Sir Theodore wereunsatisfactory, that of Gideon Harvey iscertainly not lacking in detail, howeverdeficient it may be in lucidity. You are to apprehend, that the cause of thisgreat Disease was an obstinate obstruction of ^Sir Theodore Turquet cle Mayerne died in Harvey again almost ccrtaiiil\,
. Annals of medical history. fied with this diagnosis and proceedsto enlighten the reader on his own account,though he can hardly have been oldenough- in spite of his vaunted precocity,to have been consulted in the case. If thediagnosis of William Harvey- and his fel-low consultants and of Sir Theodore wereunsatisfactory, that of Gideon Harvey iscertainly not lacking in detail, howeverdeficient it may be in lucidity. You are to apprehend, that the cause of thisgreat Disease was an obstinate obstruction of ^Sir Theodore Turquet cle Mayerne died in Harvey again almost ccrtaiiil\, tiiouglihis name is not repeated. the Glanduls of the Mesentery Immensely swelledup, and hardened by coagulation of tartarousand slimy Humors, making a strong pressureupon the Arteria Magna, which by a potentrenixe did duplicate its force of Pulsation, thatimposed on Dr. Harvey the false notion of anAneurism, which ought rather to have beentermed a Vibration. The conglobated tumor bycompression causing a coarctation upon the. Ncr\ cs, mllkle and other Vessels, occasioned thegreat Weakness of his Limbs, and Atrophy, & by hufiing up the Bowels against the Dia-phragm, rendered his respiration extraordinarydillkuit. The grand empirical Medicine (fromwhich his Father Turquetus, usually by the Frenchnicknamed the Turc, had got great Reputationby selling It publickly on the Stage, whom SirTheodore in his younger years had attendedin that employ if common vogue may becredited)-^ being In a proportionable Dose mixt Proljably ail lies, i)ut note the saving clause attlic end. This forms a good sjxcimcn of Gideonsmilder form of abuse. Gideon Harvey: Sidelights on Medical Life 233 with some gentle Purgatives, had the successto dissolve those gross glutinous Humors, andthrough their weight and tendency downward,throw them down into his Legs, as being partsmuch weakened, and consequently more readilysuscipient. Nature by being disburdened of thatload, that had hitherto obstructed the fre
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