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and foreign things; and a due and temperate degree of heat : for, when fuch apulfe . 
_ is prefent, the fluids are duly fpirituous, the fibres poffeffed of their natural tone 
the blood temperate and fluid, and confequently the tran{piration free, the duttition 
good, the animal funétions vigorous, the fecretions duly carried on, and the patient 
in a ftate of good health. But, when the pulfe is quicker, and confequently more 
frequent than ufual, it indicates a preternatural irritation of the heart, as the ancients 
exprefs it, unlefs it proceeds from external caufes. But, if fucha pulfe continues 
long, it infallibly denotes a diforder accompanied with an increafe, and even a fever. 
It is generally produced by an inteftine motion of the blood, and a change induced 
on the crafis of the fpirits, by an admixture of heterogeneous and often cauftic par- 
ticles. When the pulfe is vehement, and at the fame time quick, it indicates a fe- 
verifh intemperature, an admixture of fomething heterogeneous with the blood, 
lymph, and fpirits ; but at the fame time a.large quantity of health and fpirits,» If a 
vehement and quick pulfe is alfo large, the circulationof the blood is:brifk, the heat: 
‘and thiclt great, and the whole habit red and turgid. Where the pulfeis fmall, and 
little blood is conveyed from the heart to the arteries, and from the veins to the heart, 
the-circulation of the blood is faint and languid. Hence the tran{piration and fecre- 
tions are but fall, andthe ftrength little: but, ifa {mall pulfe is at the fame time weak, 
frequent, and quick, it denotes a great languor of the ftrength, a preternatural in- 
teftine motion, and a weak circulation of the blood; and, if this fpecies of pulfe: 
continues lang, it indicates malignity and great danger. i 
A flow: pulfe generally denotes’a vifcidity, thicknefs, and weak circulation, of the: 
blood, together with a languor of the'fecretions; but, if it is at the fame time weal, 
itis dangerous, and raifes.a fufpicion of a total lofs.of ftrength. But) a pulfe which 
is flow andlarge denotes fufficient remains of ftrength, tenfion, and thicknefs of the: 
fibres of the heart and arteries , and a vifcid and tenacious blood. All unequal. 
pulfes. are very bad, fince they denote that there is neither adue influx of the 
fpirits, nor a proper and equal mixture of the blood ;. but particularly fuch pulies. 
always prognofticate unlucky events,. when they are weak, . Intermittent pulfes om 
alfo of a bad kind, or generally accounted the prefages of death, Butit is not uni~ 
verfally fo ;. for an intermittent pulfe. frequently happens without danger, where) 
for inftance, the fymptomsare of a bad kind, and the patient’s ftrength {till entire, 
Hence this fpecies of pulfe frequently happens in hypochondriac and melancholic, 
patients; where the inteftine motion of the blood 2s diminifhed by. its: thickaeth. | 
But, when the pulfe is-weak, and quick at the fame time, it generally prognofticates, 
death. Anltard pulfe generally indicates pains, fpalms, and convulfions, Becauls: 
-—the‘bres ofthe heart. and. arteries ae fpatmodically consited,. The teat 
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