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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    cc till the ninth day, which is the critical one.” One authority more concerning the diet of the fick, and the danger of neglecting it; that fatal rock on which fo many patients in inflammatory fevers are daily wrecked. Speaking of the cure of quinzey, Dr, Sydenham has thefe remarkable words: cc Meats of every kind, and likewife £C broths prepared of them, are facred, and muft £C not be touched. Let the patient live on barley- 5£ water, water-gruel, and boiled apples; and cc let ptifan and very fmall beer be his drink.” On the cure of the baftard peripneumony he adds, cc In the mean time I forbid my fick to cc touch meats or broths made of them, and ££ efpecially every fort of fpirituous liquors.” But how fhort is the lift of phyflcians now-a-days, with whom thefe beft authorities have any weight! SECTION XXVIII, * BY‘ANTIPHLOGISTIC MEDICINES. know how much heat may be allayed. and how much cold may be induced, by nitre and fal ammoniac. We likewife know how wonderfully the Almighty Chymift has blended the effentia] falts of plants, fruits, and the different parts of vegetables, with their pulpy fubffance; how ftrongly our nature craves them in