The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
- Thomas Sydenham
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- M.DCC.XVII
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Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![us. S x Ww ' oh, S . ; 26° Continual Fever zz the Year 1661, &c. Fever, and confequently unable toaffimilate the Juices of the Meat lately eaten) removes that Symptom in the {pace of a few Days, as I have often found. By this Method which I have propofed, the Sick will be fecured from many ill Symptoms, which are ufually attri- buted to Malignity : for nothing is more frequent with un- experienced Phyficians, than to blame Malignity, when: by cooling Medicines, and the unfeafonable Ufe of Glif- ters, they have fo loofen'd the Crafis of. the Blood, and - fo weakned Nature in performing the Defpumation of it, that Faintings and other Symptoms (which are really the . matural Effe&ts of fuch Hindrances, occafioned by Art) happen, . But if the Difeafe, by continuing long, efcap'd this Afperfion, then whatever afterwards obítru&ts the Cure, is laid upon the Scurvy; tho really neither the Symptoms which happened whilft the Difeafe was at its heisht, were the Effe&s of Malignity, nor thofe which come at its Declination by the Scurvy, but both are occafi- . oned by ill Treatment, asl have frequently obferv'd. Not — that], or any oneelfe, who has been any whit acquainted with the Hiftory of Difeafes, can “be ignorant that there. are Fevers which do not only confift of an Intemperies or putrid Heat, but alfo of a malignant Quality, the plain’ - Symptoms whereof cannot but appear in the Sick; or that Y deny that fometimes the Scurvy, and many other Dif- eafes, may be complicated with a Fever: only I fay, That thefe Difeafes are often yndefervedly cenfured. If the Fermentation go on well, there will be a perfect Defpumation of the Morbifick Matter within the time be- fore-mentioned: Butif Glifters or cooling Remedies have been ufed too late, the Fever will continue much longer, efpecially in very old Men, ill treated by the Phyfician. 1 have been fometimes called to fuch after they have had a Fever forty Days, or more, and have try’d all things to promote the Defpumation of the Blood; but it was fo much weakned, partly by old Age, and partly by Glifters and cooling Medicines, that I could not obtain my End, ei- ther by Cordials, or any other ftrengtnning Medicine; but either the Fever continued, or if it feemed to ceafe, the Patient’s Strength was very low, or in a manner gone. But other Remedies being ufed without Succefs, I have been often forced to take this Courfe, and really with good - Saccefs, viz. I. have apply'd the vigorous Heat of young . | People](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534021_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
