Volume 2

A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / [William Butter].

  • William Butter
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / [William Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I T '. The firft means recommended for tak- ing off the febrile irritation are reft, quietnefs, and ftillnefs. I call thefe the firft means; becaufe many people are too apt to think, that, if the medicines are carefully taken, moft of the other direc¬ tions may be difpenfed with. And, when they are difappointed in this way, they blame the phyfician; though the truth is, that the fault is entirely their own: forj it is certainly the cafe in fevers, as well ] as in moft other diforders, that little fuc- cefs is to be expe<fted, unlefs the manage- , ment be as pundlually attended to, as the medicines. The firft thing, therefore, to be done, in order that we may enfure fuccefs in the cure of this diforder, is to procure reft, quietnefs, and ftillnefs. To accomplilh thefe purpofes, the patient muft be put to bed in a chamber that is temperate, and admits, for the time, but little light. His playfellows muft be kept • from
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