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Coction means (obsolete) An act of boiling..
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/ˈkɑkʃən/ · noun
(obsolete) An act of boiling..
But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal.
A yellow Urine is caused by a due Concoction of the Chyle with the Blood. A red Urine is made by the Mixture of Blood with it, or by a greater Coction.
The body again was considered as a microcosm, formed of four humours, — the blood, lymph, bile, and atrabile, […] and the terms crudity, coction, and evacuation of the morbific matter, were used to express such supposed changes.
The second coction was the sanguification of this chyle within the liver itself. In the peripheral parts blood was in the third coction made flesh. The coctions were promoted by the animal heat (hence the term) and in the sixteenth century writers […]
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Coction means (obsolete) An act of boiling..
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But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal.
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