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ther difeares, or a moO violcnt terror. The Oighter
fainting-6ts have linle danger; and patients ~re brought
ta themrclves by volatile medicines, taken by (he mouth,
or applied to th<..noflrils.
As to rhe cure, ir lhe nighter ron happens when a veio
is opened. or (rom (he light of blood. wounds, ulcers.
or any chirurgical operarion. wh ich proceeds from hor–
ror and fear,.. aFFeéling (he imagination, it often happens
that chaneing (he room, and going ioto frenl aír, wilJ
perform a cure. BUl if any thing hinders this, that they
can neither walk nor le3ve lhe room, lhe fmell of hungary
water alone, or yol:uile fpirits. or wine and Urong Vlne–
gar, or fpriokling lhe face with cold water, or a dr~ught
of generous \Vine, will bring them [O themfclves.
In more grievous fainting fits, where gcntle cordials
are of little ufe, the Oronga (ort muO bc applied, fu ch
as (pirit of Cal ammoniac to the noChils, temples and pulfGs,
with llrong friaions; or 40 or 50 drops of volatile fpiri"
may be given inwardly. to which may be addeJ cinnan10n
,vater orange. f:lower.water, or the Iik.e; not forgcttiog
a dnught of generous wjne. with velJications and friaions
of the extrcmities of me Dofe, ears, head, ha ir, Oc. tiJl
they recover.
When the patient i. hyOerie, none but fetid thing.
fuould be applied to the nofe, (ueh a. eaOor, afa- feetida,
partridges feathers burot, or burot leather, horo, or the
Jike; as alfo fetid fpirits, in a grievous fit; not omittiog
yeJlieation. and friaion. of the aforefaid part•.
O; th. SPA'M of th. L OWER-JA.W.
IN the (pafm of ·the lower jaw, \Ohen the patient can
neitner apeo his mouth, Dor eat, as when perfoDs are
wounded, and (omething foreign i, lodged therein, or
wheo the ocrves are hurt, or when fharp things , fu eh as
yitriol, .are applied to llop the blood, the cure muO be
performed accordiog tO the diver(jty of e.ilUres, a~ parti .
cul.rly [reated of in furgerY . But ",hen thi. happen.
fpontaneouOy in infa nlS, they generally die, though the
befl nervou. and an\ifpafmodie medicines have becn ufed
both inwardly and out wardl y .
O; th, CVNt e SPASM, or Convulfion o; th. Mufcle•• ;
/h: Mouth.
A CYNt C fpafm , if it proeeeds from vegetable poifon.,
as it y does, they are lO be expelled immediately
from the body by a vomit, and then giving genuous wine.
warm with ginger or pcpper. lf it hal'pens from other
caufes. it muO be treated with antiCparmodics and nervous
medicines. both inwardlyand outwardly; and chiefly
with plaller of betony and bayoberries, prepared wi tn oil
of amber, and arplied to the temples, and behind the ears .
O;th PALP'TAT'ON of /h. HU.T.
TH E heart often palpitates fo much as to be heard at
a diUanee . y tbe by .llanders, whieh they fuppof< tO be
ao afTeétion of the thorax. This rnay fOD1~til1lcs happen,
from a violent mOlioo of lhe body. chieny when afcend–
ing high ., and prineipally in thofe who are plethoric
and hypochondriac Somelimes it i5 canfed by fe.u or
dread , wheo the blooo is forced too violently tOth~ heílrt.
Whcn il proeeed. from violent motioo or terror, and re·
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turns often, it caufes a kind or potyplH, as is evident
from tbe di(feaion of thofe bodies ,who have died of this
diCeare. Hence, almon a continual palpitation arifes.
Sometimes it proceeds from a b..d conformadon of the
heart and the neighbonring vt:lrds, fueh as ao aneuriflD
of the aorta, when jt becomes boney.
Others affirm, il Cometimes may be caufed by wounds
jn the "entric1es or ílbfc.!tres in the hcart ; or from wind,
or a oi(order of the animal fpirits, iodueing fpafmodle
attealons .
In t·he "IIeginning of the cure, if the patient i. pletho–
ric, or wnen uf". 1 bleedings have been lIopt, it will be
proper tO bleed, by way "f prefervation, in the fpr ing and
autumn.
BeGdes this~ [alloe, nitrous, and cinnabarine temper.
aling medicinu are to be ufed, particularly aotifpafmo..
dies, 10 appeafe the motion of the he.n, aod reod~ the
blood more fluid . The aqueou. iofufioos of tea, balm,
veronica, 'primrofes, or cierons, are likewife proper, cC.
pecially with the et'fence of CcordjuOl¡ carduus benediétus,
citron: or orange.peel, with a little dulctlled fpirit of
oitre, taken morning and c:vening; as alfo temperate pe·
diluvia, modtrate frequen t exercife, riding,
diet, plenty of thin dliok, whey, miner.l waters, tfpe.
cially the ehalybeate kind, ace very ufeful in this di[eafe.
O; a POLYPU' o; /h. HEA"T .
A POLYPU' is a maf. eompofed of varioos pellicles
aod fibres, gencrated in the heart and large . e(fel. . They
are generally founded io acute as weJl as ehroníe difeares;
find there 2re few bodies to be Olet witb, wherein tbey
are not to be found after death. lts principal feat is io
the' heart, pulmonaryartc:ry. and the aona.
They prineipally attack tbe fanguine eoollitutioo., and
patients ",ho have (mallO' vdfds, (oft fi bros, of a feaen·
tary life, who driok litde, or are free in tbe u(e of acid·
winc:s and fpirituous liquon, as alfo thofe 'wbo eat large
¡upper•.
The beginning of a polypus m:.y be known by a eom–
prefijon of the brean, a 6xed pain abou, ,he heart, and
when it ¡ncreafes there is 2 frequeot palpitatioD of the
heart , froln a Oight eaufe, and !he pulf. is II rángely unequ. 1
and often intermits. When there is a violeDt motion of
the body, or {he póltient hólS taken a medicine which dif·
turbs the blood, or the minó is violendy .fFeaed, a ¡hort–
nefs of breath and an ineredibl< aoxiety of lhe bean will
arife . L aCl ly, tbere art! Crequent faintings without any
evident cauCe, or from a cerrain pofition oC the body . 1f
t he blood is let f.1I into hot water, it will eongcaJ like
jelly, af'ld c1eave ioto white fi lanfents.
In the cure, ao ex ..ét regimen and diet mu(l be fnade
ufe of, with a f'equeot exerclft! and motioo of the bodr,
aod mineral \Vaters, efpeei.lly thofe of tbe ehalyblOt.
kind, aod abouoding with alk.diou. falt.
O; th< H,cevp.
A H I Ccu P i, a fpaf010die affeaion of the llomach and
diaphr;:¡gm, ariCing from any {hing that irrit.ues and \·clli·
cates th~ir oel vous co;:¡ ts. Whcn il procteds from a fltp,ht
error in diet, it \ViII foon entl Ipontancoufly , or by dli r,L:·
iílg any tbing whieh dilutes the acrid mallero SODletim~.
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