Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de synocha, sive febre flava / [Alexander Manson].

  • Manson, Alexander, 1774-1840.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de synocha, sive febre flava / [Alexander Manson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Bleeding, it is evident, must not be per- formed in any other stage of the disease, than the first or inflammatory stage ; but this has been injudiciously done, which has given rise to the notion, that a patient will seldom bear more than two bleedings. Nor is fainting, during the operation, any reason for not repeating it, in the first stage of the fever ; for I ha ve often cured it by bleeding only. And it has fre- quently happened in the West Indies, that ac- cidental bleeding from the orifice, when a pa¬ tient has fallen asleep, to far greater quanti- ties than have ever been directed to be taken away, has carried off the fever entirely ; and the surpriseon discovering a profusion of blood in the bed, has been changed to joy, for the alteration produced in the patient Haemorrhagia copiosa, Febris Flavae initio superveniens, dicitur a fere omnibus auctori¬ bus morbum tollere; quum autem sub finem incidat, exitum funestum praecipitare. * On Tropical Diseases, pag. 429» et secl*
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