according to him, the Septenary Periods in Diseases are owing to the Quarterly Lunar Phases, which are the times of the greatest Force, and which return in about seven days.[50]
The result of the whole Affair, in short is this, A Crisis is no more than the Expulsion of the Morbific Matter out of the Body, thro' some or other of the Secretory Organs; in order to which, it is necessary that this should be prepar'd
and comminuted to such a degree, as is required to make it pass into the Orifices of the respective Glands; and therefore as the most perfect Crisis is by Sweat, (both by reason that the Subcutaneous Glands do naturally discharge more than all the other put together, and also that their Ducts being the smallest of any, whatsoever comes this way is certainly wery well divided and broken) so the most imperfect is an Hæmorrhage, because This is an Argument that what Offends is not fit to be cast off in any Part, and consequently breaks the Vessels by the Effervescence of the Blood. An Abscess in those Organs which separate thick, slimy Juices is of a middle nature betwixt these two.