A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / by Francis Balfour, M.D. Surgeon in the service of the hon. East India Company.

  • Balfour, Francis, -1818
Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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Credit: A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / by Francis Balfour, M.D. Surgeon in the service of the hon. East India Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Secondly^ All the arguments I have been advancing in favour of an early exhibition of the bark in intermittents, are equally applicable in thq cafe of remittents, whe- ther attended or not with fymptoms of obftru6lion. And as thefe diforders are more rapid in their progrefs, and more dangerous ; fo is the neceflity of this prac- tice in proportion more urgent. I do not recoiled; to have loft a fingle patient in this diforder fince I have proceeded on this plan; and I attribute my fuccefs, to the difpatch and freedom with which I go thro' the firft evacuations; to the particu- lar care I always tske to be certain that jthefe have been properly effedled; to my early, turns with double violence, and continues without intermlf= fion; and in fhort, is converted into a dangerous bilious re- mittent. This leads me to obferve, that I am inclined to fufpeft, that the |)ilious fevers of the Weft Indies with the yellow fkin and other terrible fymptoms, defcribed by au- authors, are owing to a negledl of plentiful and repeated evacuations downwards, in the very beginning. Forwhere- ever I have met with it here, it has univerfally proceeded from this caufe. And on the other hand I have never feen in it in that form, where proper evacuations were o]^» tained at the beginning.