Hermann Boerhaave/Classification of the diseases

---- Hermann Boerhaave admits diseases of the solids or organics, and diseases of the liquids or humorales:

  1. Relative with the first, going down by the analysis with elementary fiber, simple or similar part, it recognizes that this fiber, according to the degree of cohesion of the particles which constitute it, can be too strong, too weak, too tended; consequently the formed elementary fiber bodies, the large vessels, the internal organs, can be also weak and loose, or strong and hard.

  2. the diseases of moods depend on acidity, alkalinity and viscosity or state glutinous. These states are especially ascribable with the nature of the elements.
  3. There are still generated diseases:
    1. By the excess of circulation; thus the fever is produced by the acceleration of the movements of the heart (principle of the vital movements), which takes place when the brain sends to it a greater quantity of spirits, or that it without venous there arrives per too much impetuosity or carts matters acres, saltworks, acids, etc
    2. By the defect of circulation or plethora, there are made up diseases of which simplest is the obstruction caused by a defect of proportion between the mass of the liquids and the diameter of the vessels that this liquid must cross. However a vessel narrows, when it is compressed outside, by its own contractions, or the thickening of its membranes. The mass of the liquid molecules is increased by the largest viscosity of the fluid, or by the error of place, i.e. when the blood globules engage in a too narrow vessel towards its end so that the fluid can circulate there.

All this is entirely field of the assumption and borrowed from the ideas of the Méthodiste S combined with that of the more recent Systématique S, Chimiste S and Mathématicien S. ----

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