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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    C J96 ] O N T H E HECTIC FEVER. OTHING can be more erroneous than the idea which generally prevails., That where the ftdh is wailed, or the habit reduced, the cafe is always confumptive: for when a Putrid, or a Rheumatic fever has lafted a confi- derable time, as frequently happens, and has been treated according to the beft rules, the flelh fhall be gone to appearance, though the difeafe is conquered, and the patient in fafety. The true pthifis, or confumption, is a very common difeafe in Great Britain, deilroying per¬ haps a tenth part of thofe who die of what are called Chronical diilempers. It is not my intention at prefent to confider the forts that are the confequence of inflamma¬ tions in the fide or lungs, or that are owing to external accidents, or that fucceed a {pitting of blood, with which laft fymptom very many confumptive cafes begin. I mean only to diftinguifh from the reft that fpecies which is called the He&ic Fever, and to evince, what is by no means a common opinion, how very much it is within the reach of art, if