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VIII. 2 hjcr'tption of a Machine for dr effing 
and curing ‘Patients , who are very un- 
wieldy , and are under the Surgeons Hands 
for fome Ailment on the Back, the Os Sa- 
crum, &c. or are appreloenjive of it. By 
M. le Car, F.R.S. Surgeon to the Hotel 
Dieu at Rouan, and Royal ‘Demonflrator in 
Anatomy and Surgery : Abjlraffed from the 
French by P. H. Z. F. R. S. 
'Rend Feb. j. % Lufly Body labours, as it were* 
JL \ under the Richnefs of its Confu- 
tation, which at the long run turns to Mifery : The 
Veflels of a plethoric Body are, even in the moll 
vigorous State of it, hardly able to convey all the 
Juices,- but when that Vigour is loJl, they ftagnate 
and corrupt, and produce numberlefs Diftempers : 
If any critical and falutary Evacuations free it of Part 
of its Burden, there remain flabby Bags and Cells 
ouzing Humours, which become Materials for Impoft- 
humes, for want of a proper Supply of Animal Spirits, 
and laudable Humours, which are comprefled and 
flopped by the Weight of the refpe&ive Parts. The 
increafing Weaknefs of the Patient hinders him from 
ftirring, and putting himfelf into the Situation neceT 
fary for his Cure : His enormous Bulk makes it even 
impoflible for his Attendants to afflft him ; the Num- 
ber of Hands that are then imploycd, rather give him 
Torment than Eafe, and the Apprehenfion of chang- 
ing his Poflure at fo painful a Rate, will make him 
rather 
