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
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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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    *73 Sea. 23,] OF WINE IN FEVERS. and the times of giving it.f But from the moderns we have not received any rules on this fubje£t, that can be deemed fufficiently full and accurate. Among the fick in a military hofpital near Pimbiico, of which I had the care for almoft twenty years, putrid fevers were very common ; and they were generally brought under our eye on the firft, fecond, and third day of the fever. The patients diet and medicines being entirely under our regulation, their difeafes were left to proceed in their natural form: the pulfe was meafured by the watch, while nothing that could be prevented was allowed to agitate or fink it, befides the fever: bidders were feldom applied, or cordial medicines (as they are called) exhibited in a dofe to affehl the circulation materially in the putrid fever; and I obfervecl, from long experience, that in the Inflammatory fort no benefit ever accrued from the ufe of v/ine inanyfhape, or in any quantity, and that even a fmgle glafs often did apparent mifchief, by increafing the fever, or retarding the cure. The cafe, I remarked, was very different in all the fpecies of Putrid fevers; for, if there was a dejeflion of mind, or a violent diarrhoea, neither of f Al. Trallian.recommends wine in the cure of the cholera morbus : “ Becaufe,’’ fays he, “ it has the power beyond “ any thing elfe to retrelh mod fpeedily the exhauded u Orength; and I have known many who have, beyond €i expectation, efcaped the danger of dying by drinking it.’* JL.7. C. de Colera.