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

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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$TUS DT y ^ CY. TES Ys yy. ] à 436 | OF Epidensick Difeafes from - orjuft maturity ) is brought by the Veins into the Blood} and allo fo great a quantity of putrid Vapours ereepsinto it,’ from the whole Superfices of the Body, now, as’ iv were; fuppurated every where; fo'chat the Fever: occafioned by this mearis, wholly oppreffes the ftrength of Nature, and fo: at length the Patient is dettroyed ; Partly by the Fever, and partly by the Venom which infeéts the mafs of Blood. Wherefore; feeing- the: fafecy-of the Patient dépends fo: much on the: paucity of the Small-pox; and danger on the: - contrary, from the fulnefs of ‘them, Reafon diétates, and alio Senfe, which is common to all; that therefore it is: the Duty of a skilful’Phyfician, not violently to:drive out! the variolous Matter, at the’ beginning of the Difeafe by hot Cordials, and a hot Régimes, by which means there: would be tco great an Affimulation-of the Z4orbifich Mata ter contained in the Blood, and the whole Subítance of the Body would be turned, as it were, toa Fomes of the Difeafe 5; but he fhould rather ufe his:utmoft'Endeavours - in fuppreffing fo enormous and fubtile an Inflammation; to wit, above, all by taking Blood from the Arm, if there be the leaft Sufpicion (either becaufe: the Patient is in the flower of his Age, or becaufe the Blood: has been inflamed by {trong Liquors, or upon account of violent | Pains of fome part of the Body ; or Laftly, from vehement Vomit- ing) that the Small-pox juft a. coming out; will Flux 5 - and afterwards a Vomit is proper for the fame. ‘And fee- ing nothing heats the Patient fo much, and for that caufe fo much promotes too copious an Affimulation cf the various Matter, as the Patient’s lying continually ín Bed; D always keep him from ita Days, till the Sixth Day from the firft Invafion, or the fourth from the Eruption of the Puftles; at which Time the whole Troop of them are : come our. . Afterwards I commit him to Bed, till the end thicker Cloaths on, or Fire in his Chamber, than he ufed - to have when-he was well: In the mean while. I permit him the free ufe of Small-beer, and. other cooling Liquors, which are moft grateful to the Patient. But, forafmuch as notwithftanding, even in the moft temperate Regimen, the Patient will frequently fall into Heats, Deliriams, and Reftlefnefs, I prefcribe an Auodyne every Night, but a lit. “tle ‘earlier chan is ufüal; | becaufe in this Difeafe there is, — as it were, a certain Paroxilim, or Exacerbation of Hát ; To e a an$