A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.

William Fordyce

Date:: 1777

Credit: A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$BY VOMITING. Seft. 3.] 99 inflammation, it would be the worft of remedies, as bleeding would prove the beft. The fame obfervation holds good, if it arofe from cancer or fchirrhus. Doctor Sydenham, Boerhaave, and others, ob- ferved, that autumnal fevers, proceeding from collections of putrid humours in the ftomach, or from ftimmer heat, may, by being carried off by vomits, prevent the aphthae, teneffnus, and fatal diarrhoeas, from happening fo frequently in the end of fuch fevers. SECTION IV. \ BY PURGING. THE ancient phyficians having obferved, that fevers were often fpeedily and completely cured by fits of loofenefs, they attempted, in imita¬ tion of Nature’s procedure, to cure by giving Purging Medicines; but hill with very great caution: for they perceived that the fame purgative had not always the fame effedt; that fometimes it purged too much ; and that fometimes it brought away what it was not wont to do. They always enquired beforehand, whether their fick had taken purges, and with what effectl; whether thofe purges operated (lowly or brifldy; and they gave gentle or ftrong purgatives in proportion, being very careful not to exhibit any ralhly. They likewife remarked,$