Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot].

  • Samuel-Auguste Tissot
Date:
1772
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Credit: Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ !/ ] Ids obfervers have run into an error, having obferved the circulation more how by noc¬ turnal deep in healthy perfons, and perfons adeep rendered more cool; hence they have concluded that deep always, and in all cafes mud regenerate; not confidering that cool- nefs arifes from the ceffation of the caufes of motion and heat. Having obierved deep to follow the adminidration of opium they thence aflerted deep cools, as opium compofes to deep; therefore the ultimate effedt of opium, is to refrigerate; therefore opium mud: be of fervice in the Small Pox, where an exquifite refrigeration is defired. But the propofition is falfe, of courfe the conclufion mud: be falle. Sleep once more, then, only leffens the frequency and heat of the circu¬ lation, when the caufes of motion are remov¬ ed at the time of deep» In health a dight fever arifes every day from the diurnal labour, which nature wills fhould be cured by that placid red: which is called deep ; then deep is the only febrifuge remedy. But in every other fever it is deditute of tips property. The affidan.ee of the heart is different in * 4. the healthy and the difeafed; thofe of the ^ffd kind ceafe during deep, but not thofe of P . the