When the beating vessel is obedient in its softness, the animal strength is great and the “need for cooling” is significant, then the pulse is large. “Need for cooling” of all three reasons contributes most to this.
If animal strength is weak, then the consequence is necessarily a small pulse; when the beating vessel is hard and the “need for cooling” is insignificant, then the pulse is even less.
The hardness of the artery also gives rise to a small pulse, but the smallness of the pulse caused by hardness differs from the smallness caused by weakness in that the pulse is hard and not weak and is not, as with a lack of strength, excessively short and sank deep. A slight “need for cooling” also makes the pulse small, but there is no weakness in it.
None of these three reasons determines the smallness of the pulse to the same extent as it determines the weakness of animal strength. The smallness of hardness in the presence of force is greater than the lack of “need for cooling” in the presence of force, because the force in the absence of “need for cooling” is slightly less than the balanced amount, since nothing prevents it from expanding the artery. She is only inclined to refrain from slightly exceeding the balanced amount, because there is no need for this.
If the “need for cooling” is great, the force is significant and the weapon, due to its hardness, does not allow the pulse to become large, then the pulse must necessarily become fast in order to quickly make up for what it missed without becoming large; if the strength is weak, then it is not possible to either increase the pulse or create speed in it, and it must inevitably become frequent in order to make up with frequency what it missed without becoming large and fast: numerous frequent beats replace one large full blow or two fast ones blow. It looks like
dry and hard. The fact is that dryness predisposes to shaking and shuddering, and the end of a hard and dry thing moves when the other end is moved; As for the wet and soft, we can assume that one part of it moves, but the other part does not react to its movement, since it is capable of quickly separating and will be disconnected from it due to the difference in shape.
The cause of the worm-like and ant-like pulse is such a great weakness of force that in the parts of the pulsation slowness, frequency and unevenness are combined, for the force is able to expand the instrument not at once, but part by part.
The causes of a poor pulse rhythm are as follows: if the defect lies in the nature of the period of stopping, then this is the result of an increase in the “need for cooling,” and if the defect relates to a period of movement, then this is a consequence of an increase in weakness or lack of “need for cooling.” As for the defect of the period of movement, due to the speed of expansion, this is something else. The reasons for a full, empty, hot, cold, rising and falling pulse are self-evident.