Volume 1

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

  • John Fothergill
Date:
1783-1784
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    I Account of the putrid Sore-throat. 357 agreed, that unlefs thefe remedies were very early applied, as they were principally ufeful by way of revulfion, they were not only of no advantage to the patient, but highly injurious*. Obfervations of this kind, we are toldf, induced feveral phyficians to omit bleeding entirely] and it was, probably, the reafon why thofe who were friends to venefedtion ordered it more fparingly in this, than in moll other acute difeales J. Se- verinus, * difputare coepimus de fanguine extrahendo: ** flquidem non defuerunt medici, qui id renuerunt:” ex- terum unanimi confulentium confenfu, primo die fanguinem mifimus, cruribus fcarificatis, et mox oftava noflis hora bra- chiis, aut fi ultra duos annos fuerit natus, ex vena brachii : ** in hoc malo plurimum vereri oportet, vires plurimum de- *( jicere.” Mereat. Breviflime fecandam efle venam in hoc confitentur omnes. P. Mich. de Heredia de Morb. acut. p. ioi. f Circa quod praeftdium (venxfedlionem) in pueris exe- quendum, confulo ne differatur, quia ejus occafio folum eft, antequam fluxio in partibus contenta ad putredinem commi- gret. Nam tunc temporis, fi fanguinem fuderis, fumme- pere lxdes, qu;e caufa fuit quod multi medicorum, vifo hoc damno, renuerint fanguinem mittere. Mereat. Confult. p. 138. J In hoc facro igne non mittendus eft fanguis in ea quan- titate ac in angina exquifita.—Placuit quibufdam in hoc morbo fecare venas fub lingua; alii admoverunt hirudines collo ; mihi nulla iftarum evacuationum unquam probari po- tuit. Nam cum tumor fuperveniens ex fanguine non ori- tur, frullra adhibentur ea auxilia qua: ad fanguinem ex parte affefta evacuandum excogitata fuerunt, Sgambat. de Pcft. p'aucium Affedl. Efle vero efficiendas parcas miffiones in quantitate, dum revellere intendimus, docuit antiquitas.—Quod prxeeptum A a 3 magis