$14 PERIODS OF DISEASES. SECT. XXXVI. ,. 



antipathies; and thus embarrafs the happinefs of our 

 lives. A copious and curious harveft might be reap, 

 ed from this province of fcience, in which, howe- 

 ver, I ihall not at prefent wield my fickle. 



SECT. XXXVI. 



OF THK PERIODS OF DISEASES. 



J. Mufcles excited by volition foon ceafe to contraB, ot 

 by fenfation, or by irritation, owing to the exhauf* 

 tjon of fenforial power. Mufcles fubjefled to /eft 



Jtimulus have tJieir fen fur ia/ power accumulated^ 

 Hence the periods of fame fevers. Want of irrita- 

 bility after intoxication. II. i. Natural afiions cate- 

 nated with daily habits of Life, z . With folar periods. 

 Periods of Jleep. Of evacuating the bowels. 3. Na- 

 tural aftions. catenated* with lunar periods. Men- 



Jlr nation. Venereal or gafm of animals. Barrennefs. 



III. Periods of difeafed animal aclions from flated 

 returns of no&urnal col-d, from folar and lunar in- 

 fluence. Periods of diurnal fever, heQic fever , quo- 

 tidian , tertian, quartan f ever. Periods of gout , 

 fleurify, of fevers with arterial, debility, and with 

 Arterial ftrength- Periods of rhaphania, of nervous 

 cough, hemicrania, arteria( hemorrhages, hemorr- 

 hoids, hcemoptoe, epilepfy, palfy, apoplexy, madnefs. 



IV. Critical days depend on limar periods. Lunar 

 periods in the fmall po%. 



I. IF any of our mufcles be made to contract 

 viqlently by the power pf volition, as ihofe of th$ 



fingers, 



