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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    .[ ■» ] \ the fecond kind; therefore the effects are un¬ like. A man who labours under a bilious fever, that is to be eured by i-nteftinal evacuations and urine, and plentiful dilution with acid liquors, fleeps fix hours uneafily, will the fever be lefswhenhe awakes ? No; from the diminifhed and flower periftaltic motion arifes a congeftion, flagnation, and greater putridity of the putrefcent inteftinal contents ; the urine is in fmaller quantity, and the per- ipiration leffened; which laft 1 (hould ima¬ gine of the utmoff confequence ; the acrimo¬ ny, therefore, is retained in the blood, and ftimulates more; the heart beats more fre¬ quently ; the fever becomes more acute. Befides, from the air remaining unchanged, the heat is greater from want of drink no check is given to the putridity : therefore fleep does harm many ways. The fame way of arguing holds good in the Small Pox, it can take nothing from the caufes of the difeafe, it no ways leffens the difeafe, on the contrary it increafes them and prolongs the cure ; it therefore adds force to the diftemper. But Deep is neceflary to the reparation of the ftrength, the reparation of the ftrength is neceflary, therefore-The major is falfe, the