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
- Date:
- 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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![we muft rife by degrees to more generous Liquors, and to . a more plentiful and folid Nourifhment, left too great a Vacuity fhould produce again the fame Difeafe, the Pa-. tient recovered of, or fome other Symptoms that are. produced by Emptinefs. But we muft obferve this, that tho’ Lavdanum alone did {ubjugate Dyfexteries ot this: Gonftitution ; yet in thofe Years in which they are Epide- mick, and exceed other Difeafes, it will not be improper to ule thofe Evacuations firít, which were heretofore des — ícribed in the Chapter of a Dyfentery. And as in that confirmed Dy/entery now {poke of, fo in this Cafe that follows, it cannot be, that the Cure fhould be prefently expedited by that Method, which. is proper for the Fever, from whence it firft took its rife : For Inftance, fometimes it is fo, that the Sick being {eized with Horror and Rigor, (Heat and Cold fucceeding oneanother by turns, which are the certain Signs of an imminent Fever) is of a fudden miferably afflicted with tle Gripes, by reafon the Febrile Matter rufhes in upon the Guts: And whereas he ought to be Purged and Blood- ed, as is above-mentioned, prefently he betakes him- felf to hot Medicines taken inwardly, and outwardly applied, to the intent he may expel the Wind, which he fuppofes to be the Caufe of his Mifery, till at length the Pain increafing, and being as it were impacted into his Bowels by long continuance, the Periftaltick Motion | (by which, according to the Law ot Nature, all Things fhould be conveyed downwards ) begins to be inverted, and all Things tend upwards, and the Patient is erievoully tormented and provoked to vomit, the Difeafe now ending in an Z//«ck Paffion. In this Cafe the Phyfician, can proceed no further in the Method of Cure; which the Fever, the antecedent Caufe of this Symptom, re- quired, than to order Bleeding in the Arm tor once: For how many, and whatfoever Catharticks. you prefcribe, will prefently become Emetick, and {o the more pro-- mote the inverted Motion of the Bowels; forafmuch as the ftrongeft Purging Medicines, or indeed. the leaft part of them, can ícarce pafs the Guts, and caule a Stool. In this Cafe L think itis moft advifeable, firft to Bleed in the Arm, and an Hour or two after, to inject a flrong Glitter. Ireckon the fmoak of Tobacco, ftrong- -]y blown up through a large Bladder ipto the inteftines : Ke 4 * . by ,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534021_0441.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
