Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin.

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
Date:
1728
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Credit: Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will always be prepared, fo as to lofe no Time in imminent Dangers, nor hurt or weaken the Conftitution by violent Methods, when he knows the Diforder will be flight; where- as they who are ignorant of the Dodrine of Prognofficks, will always make the fame Preparation again!! a mild as a violent Fea- * ver; becaufe, not knowing which of the two will happen, they conclude it fafeft to pre¬ pare again!! the word, without ever refled- ing how much they weaken the Condituti- on, and thereby render it more liable to Dif- eafes for the future. As the Dodrine of Signs is of the greateft Mo¬ ment in the Pradice of acute Difeafes j fo is it the mo!! difficult Part of the Phyfician s Study ; he can never be too cautious in diffijnguifh- ing them exadly before he bleeds, or makes any other Evacuation : For the Signs which denote a great Oppreffion from a Fulnefs or Load of Humours, have oftentimes fo near a Refemblance to thofe which denote Weak- nefs, that they are not eafily didinguifhed 5 and a Miftake under this Circumflance muft be of the mo!! dangerous Confequence j for Weaknefs forbids all (26) Evacuations, and an Oppreffion requires very large ones. That (16) In omni porro evacuatione maxime refert languidas (vires icil.) ab oppreflis internofeere; hse fiquidem largarn, ill*
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