Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • John Pringle
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the beA, yet there are fome who cannot take them without increafing the delirium. Such therefore, over and above the malignant dif- * order, may have an inflammation of the brain, as in a common fever. The la A ohfervation I fhall make upon the occafion of diffedtion, is, that the tendency of this fever to putrefaction, reduces it to the fame clafs with the malignant kind of the fmall pox, fome hedtic fevers from abforbed matter, the ardent and bilious fevers of moiA and hot countries ; and, in a word, with all feverifh diforders, remarkable for a proAra- tion of Arength, funk pulfe, dejedtion of fpi- rits, drought, remiflions, putrid fweats and Aools, livid blotches, and the like fymptoms. In all we ihall find either an external putrid caufe, or an internal fomes of corrupted mat¬ ter 5 and in all an analogy as to the cure. 9 Tilde are all the inferences we may fafe- ly draw from the infpedtion of the bodies. But from fuch materials to account for all the varieties of this fever, would be too great an attempt. Nor would it be ]uA to propofe our method of cure, as deduced from the infpedtion of dead bodies, fince the
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