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. 12.] URINE, ITS PALENESS AND CRUDITY. 6; dies in the way of watery and diluent drinks, be- fides fhowing the degrees of putrefcency at which our juces may arrive. Since chymiftry has been underftood, and applied to the examination of the urine, we know that it confifts of a watery lie loaded with the faline and putrefcent parts of the blood, and will be more or lefs offenfive according to the greater activity of the veflels, or as it is loaded with more or fewer recrements of the body. fc Urine,” fays the belt of phyficians, cc which cc is thin and red, and not difpofed to fettle; that <c is white, thin, and watery, or ftraw-coloured, and not turbid at times; or urine that is always <c turbid, and never fettles, fhows, in very acute fevers, retarded cobtion, much crudity, a cc difficult crifis, a long difeafe, and the greatefl cc danger; and, in inflammatory fevers of the <c molt acute fort, almoft certainly portends death: *c in moderately acute fevers it indicates a long and cc troublefome difeafe.” See Boemaave’s Inftitutes, Sect. 1016. In flow fevers the urine is pale; in the increafe of the fever the fediment is fometimes thick, rough, full of fcales, and of a whitifh colour: this furfurace- ous appearance never fails to mark a long difeafe and a fevere druggie, but manageable by great attention. How much contempt fhould light on thofe carelefs or unconfcientious men who come and go to and from the bed -iides of their patients, in every F fort