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artuum, lumbagine a motu elaftico fpiri- 
tuum animalium praeter modum agitato- 
rum et a medulla fpinali in mufculos pro- 
pinquos exploforum, comate, vigiliis, 
deliriis, naufea, vomitu, aegrotatione 
univerfali, quam Ventriculus cum tunicis 
fuis nerveis, velut commune fenforium, 
prae reliquis partibus fenlit, aliifque id 
genus fy mptomatis qua? fpirituum offici- 
nam, eorumque canales unice afficere de- 
prehenduntur, etc.” 
The author afterwards remarks (I pafs 
over in filence what he fays with refpedl 
to chronic affections, as it is only my 
bulinefs at prefent to fpeak of acute dif- 
eafes), that contagious effluvia could not 
inftantly produce any alteration in the 
blood without the intervention of the 
nerves, that many difeafes arife from the 
paffions of the mind, and the blood is 
affeCted in them by the influence of the 
fpirits, and that although there may exift 
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