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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    Sea. II.] IN OBSTRUCTED PERSPIRATION. the mean time, let our other traveller continue his tifual cloathing, or as nearly fo as poflible: he catches a flight fever, if indeed any, and fpeedily recovers. Thefe I know to be fa£ls, The old French inhabitants about Mobille and Weft Flo¬ rida go abroad in the morning wrapped up in a blanket, and when the fun grows hot, leave it off* but wrap themfelves in it afrefli as foon as he goes down. By fuch care they live to be old men. It is almoft peftilential to fweat in fuminer, and take in the air at the fame time, if from the ftate of the weather it fliould chance to be cold; for all the 'effluvia of the body are hurried to the fkin by the heat, and by the fudden cold are repelled on the vitals. Men are particularly apt to be flck in fu miner, becaufe their ftronger perfpiration, excited by the heat, is more inftantaneoufly flopped by the cold air, efpecially at night: hence fevers, fluxes, and other fummer difeafes, which many phyflcians impute to very different caufes, from their not attending to the Sandlorian Perfpiration. It is, by the way, worthy of remark, that thofe phyficians, who are circbmfpedt in what relates to their own perfpiration, and that which is clofely connefted with it, their fleep, are enabled to live healthy in the midft of difeafes and death. From what has been faid, it v/ill appear of fomc importance; to remind the inhabitants of this over-