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. 4.] PUTRID FEVERS. £3 ftimulus is mixed with the blood; a fhivering fit, quick pulfe, and heat come on; and thus a Bilious fever is produced. Let the humours be fpoiled a little more, and the obitruCtion of the vifcera in- creafed by an improper diet of wild fowl, broths made of long-kept meats, or fifh, jellies, &c. the jieated habit increafes the tendency to putrefaction, 1 and we have the Remitting fever, or the Continual Putrid, commonly called Putrid. Place fuch a patient in an hofpital, and an Hofpital fever is produced. Add to this ftate the anxiety of a cri¬ minal about his impending fen ten ce, and the murky air of a jail, and you have a Jail fever. Add in¬ fection fui generis to unventilated air, or the mephitis of a common-fewer, or of a putrid body, and you have the Scarlet, or Spotted fever, or the Malignant Sore-throat. Once more, produce an infectious ftate of the air, conveyed immediately from a body ill of the fmall-pox, peftilential fever, or the plague, (the Quov n of antiquity) and the Peftilence will enlue. Pay no attention to the ne- ceffity of changing the air or bed-linen, give pu- trefcent drinks and meats, heat the circulation by volatile falts or the fpirit of putrefaction, and you fender the calamity incurable.