A fourth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular intermitting fevers / by George Fordyce.
- Date:
- 1802
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Credit: A fourth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular intermitting fevers / by George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![; [ s ] complete till about three weeks. If they continue to return at that period of time through the M^hole courfe of the difeafe, the intermiffions afterward become long-er, and are more perfe6I. The difeafe is apt to run out for five months before there are anyfighsof abatement, and it is often fix, feven, or eight months before the difeafe ceafes entirely. I Suppofing that no accident fhould take place during the ordinary progrefs of a quotidian or quartan, the fame obferva- tion is to be made with regard to leaving the patient free from any habitual difeafe, as has already been made in the Differta- tion on regular tertian; with this excep- tion, that a regular quotidian is not lo efficacious as a regular tertian, and a re- gular quartan is ftill lefs efficacious, or rather it is apt to fubjedl patients to dif- eafes arifing; out ofitfelf. Althou2:h the g-reater number of inter- O O mitting fevers follow the’tertian, quoti- dian, or quartan type, yet it fometimes happens,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21902082_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
