An historical dissertation concerning the malignant epidemical fever of 1756. With some account of the malignant diseases prevailing since the year 1752, in Kidderminster / [James Johnstone].
- James Johnstone
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An historical dissertation concerning the malignant epidemical fever of 1756. With some account of the malignant diseases prevailing since the year 1752, in Kidderminster / [James Johnstone]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![■» * v t ] fair rheumatic nature.™And for fuch it might eafily be miftaken by an unattentive obferven Infection being a fhaft which will imperceptibly penetrate the hardieft conftitutions; vifcidity of blood, the peculiarity of fuch conftitutions, will remain in its ufual Hate, at leaft in fome degree, for a few days after the fir ft at¬ tack ; but certainly, in this cafe, we are not to link the patient’s ftrength, by letting blood, in order to remove a ftzinefs, which by the action of the'malig¬ nant poifon upon it, will every day be more and more fubdued, and refolved into a putrilaginous ft ate-; from which reafon and experience require the phyfician to ufe his endeavours to preferve it: And if bleeding can feldom be ufed in any great quantity, when the blood itfelf has an inflammatory appearance™* much lefs can it be at any rate proper, when the fize is not tenacious, but cf a bluifh lead colour, and flubtuating confidence ; when the craftamentum is tender, and many of its particles remain confufedly mixed with the ferum and lymph, and leaving a footy-like pow¬ der at the bottom of the difh. For the moft part, from the beginning of otir fe~ i ver, I found the pulfe however quick, generally tod | low and fdft, and fluttering, and the proftratien of ftrength too great, to admit of venasfebtion; indeed J the bad fuccefs I had feveral times feen the confe- * Every one knows hoW generally Sydenham treats almoft every i fever as inflammatory; yet in the febrile conftitntion of 1673, 74, 75, he obferves, that the blood had conftantly an inflammatory of pleuritic cruft ; yet he found it would not admit of repeated bleed- ; ing with fafety j and though he was fomewhat perplexed at firft with this difeafe, he at laft refrained from that evacuation, and de^ fended upon glyfters and bhftering, to divert the force of the dis¬ order from the head; §• 5- cap, 2. Oper, Sydenham, E 2 quenc§](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785327_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
