Volume 1

The works of John Fothergill, M.D. ... / by John Coakley Lettsom.

  • John Fothergill
Date:
1783-1784
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    Warrant their ufe. Reafon alfo, fupported by practice, fpeaks the fame thing : “ (a) If vo- u miting,” fays Sydenham, “ or an ineffectual “ propenfity to it, has difturbed the patient, an <c emetic muff by all means be prefcribed.” For, as Hippocrates teftifies, if any one chufes to ex- hibit much water to a perfon vomiting, sxxXuo-- a i f] * a » / s *» > > ~ \ vri<rsloc.i di a. tfAtet <rvi/ rco 1/u.stco, uvtw dioc to ifJLteiv 0 tuijot Trauil*» i the cauje of the ficknefs will be Wafhed of with the emetic, and thus by a vomit the vomiting will ceafe. Nor is this the only advan- tage gained, but it will alfo be of great ufe both to the phyfician and patient, through the courfe of the difeafe, as we learn from Sydenham. “ To << exhibit a vomit, when there precedes a pro- “ peniity to it, is fo neceffary, that, unlefs the <c humour be expelled, it will become the fource <c of many difeafes, a torment to the phyfician « through the whole courfe of the cure, and “ throw the patient into great danger. Of tf thefe effeCts the chief and moft common is a « diarrhoea, which generally follows in the de- <c cline of a fever, as often as an emetic, when indicated, has been omitted. And although “ the propenfity to vomit may have been over <c fome time, yet the diarrhoea will ceafe as foon “ as an emetic is exhibited, provided the pa- “ tient have flrength to bear it.” Nor has this famous writer delineated the blacked: ftate of things; for this putrid matter, by ftagnating in (a) Sydenh. de morbis acutis, § 1. cap. 4. H the