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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    9 Sea. 13, 14,] O F T H E P U L S E. 67 the inteftines, he will the more readily alient to a plan which is often, no doubt, very tedious, though very fafe, and perhaps the bell, if antifeptic purges are adopted, and perfevered in with fpirit. We may fubjoin the advantage of knowing by the fmell, whether a fatal prognodic may be hazarded or not. SECTION XIV. QUICKNESS AND INEQUALITY OF THE PULSE. V THE old writers reckoned much upon their power of didinguifhing by the Pulfe, whe¬ ther the fever was an ephemera, or a continued fever, or a continued putrid fever. In the two firft the pulfe was equal and ftrong, not very much exceeding that of perfedt health ; but in the lad it was quicker, and often unequal, as well in ftrength as in quicknefs, owing, probably, to the blood’s being faulty in its confidence, and at the fame time in an acrimonious date. Dr. Glafs lufpecds, that the quicknefs of the pulfe, in putrid fevers, is chiefly excited by the acrimony of the putrid humour irritating the heart and arteries; and the ancient phylicians very wifely regarded other diagnodic figns. A quick ftroke of the pulfe, with pale crude water, or an unequal pulfe, attended with a great and fcorching heat all over the frame, was Alexander Trallian’s rule for knowing a putrid fever. Thofe acrid humours in