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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![“ene Y A EP S ] [ 438 . | Of Epidemick Difeafes from crufted fo hard, could neither, retreat within the Skin, nor be icflened in bulk; and truly, we have not now to do with the Small-pox, but wholly with another. Difeafe, viz. a putrid Fever, And for thefe Reafons 1 have ufed fuccefstully the following Method, which I have found fince I publifhed my laft Obfervations of the Small-pox $ and truly, except this, I know no other, neither can E — . imagine by what means the Patient can be fo certainly re-- lieved: Therefore when he is reduced to fuch Streights, — that by reafon of the unufual violence of the Symptoms, he fees juft about to expire, unlefs he be prefently relieved ; in this Cafe, I fay, whether it be the Eleventh Day, or fome other after it, ten or twelve Ounces of Blood, is prefently to be taken away from that Arm, in which the Puftles being feweft, che Vein is: moft commodioufly opened : For tho’ Paregoricks, and keeping from Bed a-Days, may fuffice without letting Blood, at the beginning of the Difeafe, to quell the Fury and Paroxif, which moft commonly in- vades in the Evening 5 yet in thefe Days of the Secondary Fever, we cannot fafely truft in any thing elfe but large Bleeding, by which alone the Fury, at this Time raging, may be fafely quieted ; at Evening an Anodyne is to be “taken, as before, in a large Dofe (to which we now fly, as to a Sanctuary ) and fo afterwards Morning and Even- ing, and fometimes oftner: For we muftdiligently obferve, E that in fome the Fury. is fo heightned above meafure, that even a very large Dofe of the Avedyne cannot tame, nor indeed ftop its violence, before the {pace of twelve Hours ; in-which Cafe itis abfolutely neceffary, that the faid Dofe be repeated every Eighth or Sixth Hour. =~ | And whereas it often-happens at the latter end of the Difeafe, partly from the Nature of it, and partly from the great force of the Anodyne, whofe Help the Method of Cure plainly required, that the Patient's Body is fo bound, that then he is almoft fuffocated, and the Fever fo height- ned, that he is in a defperate Condition; in this difficulty . we muft ufe a fuitable Remedy: And the Cafe ftanding thus, there is much lefs Danger to the Patient in taking a Lenitive Purge, than from the Fever, much heightned by the retention of the Excrements. I have prefcribed very füccefstully one Ounce and an half of Lenitive Ele&iuar), ciffolved in four Ounces of fome {mall diftilled Water; for Inflance, of Cichory, or Aqua Latis Alexit; which | is Draught,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30534021_0456.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
