cafts, and caiires,and ways, fo the chief of them are here learned- 
jydifcuffed; with an Animadverfion on the Syhianopmon con- 
ccrning the bloods efFervefcence in the Lungs. Here occur vari- 
ous Inquiries^i.How the blood may be impeded fometimes by too 
little, fometimes by toogreat,an acceofion ; fjmetimes alfo by the 
depravation of h'sCrafis^ thetexciireof it being often tooloofe 
(whence ftoreof feroficy,and corruptive miafmata are depontcd 
in the Lungs) ofcen too clofe (whence arife Fevers, Pleurifies, Pe- 
rlpnenmonia's.) 2. How the blood may be impeded by the fault of 
the Heart,whentheSpiritsof it are either deficient or move irre- 
gularly. 3. How it may be hindered by the obftrufiion of the paf- 
fages , which may alfo happen divers ways, and from divers cau- 
fes. 4. How it may be impeded by the Air, either wanting,or cor»^ 
rupted : Where are noted the defeds and vices of the Air,and the 
many obftruftions and other ill efFeds proceeding from thence, 
aiuongft which are Catharrs,Aschma's,Coughs, Atrophies or Con- 
fumptions. 
Tbefe things being difpaxhed, he advances to the chief defign 
of this work, which is the P4/^(?%/ 3 and treats largely of the re- 
medies proper to cure thofe iadifpOiiclons and difeafes of the tho- 
rax, and to render an Accompt of the manner of their opera- 
tion. 
And in this part he confiders the origine, nature, fymptonis 
and remedies of the feveral forts of PHTHYSICAL maladies 5 of 
Blood-fpicting, Peripneumonia'Sj Pleurifies, Eii)pyema's,Arihma's, 
Thoracical Dropfies. In all which the Reader v^ill find ipany coufi' 
derable particulars, touching Tabifique matter and it'^ caufes 5 as 
alfo concerning Tranfpiration impeded; the various Incongruities 
of the infpired Air i the Coogruiry of a fulphureous Air,3nd of ful- 
phureousMedicines toConfumptive bodies, with the reafon there- 
of: Further^concerningftrange forts of Coughs, and their Cores; 
divers grievous Afthma's, and feme convulfive ones,and the way of 
curing them ; a very odd cafe of an Afcites in the BreaR', caufed 
by the rupture of fome Lymphedufls there, follow'd by zxxaucli' 
^fe dropping of cheLiquor into the cavity of theparr. And,as this 
Difeafeof the Peroral Dropfie, foall others of the thorax ht^Q 
difcourfed of,are illuftrated with very remarkable Cafes andHi- 
ftories. 
Inthenext SeHion^ the Author confiders the Difeafes of the 
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