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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![[ ^ ] of the crifis. The only differences in the hiffory or manner of treatment, from what has been already laid down in treating on tertian fevers, are what follow, provided \ the difeafe remains a quotidian qr quar- tan during the whole of its courfe. A quotidian has a fliorter courfe if Jeft to itfelf, than a tertian—that is, if a quotidian be left entirely to itfelf, the in- termiffions become more perfedf iii from ten to fourteen days, when they become generally complete. If the difeafe be perfedtly regular, they continue complete from three to four weeks; afterward the attacks become lefs violent, and the dif- eafe gradually goes off, fo as entirely to leave the patient in about ten weeks, Whereas.a regular tertian, going through its natural courfe, feldom leaves the pa- tient in lefs than fourteen weeks. ^ On the other hand in a quartan, if the paroxyfms from the beginning return from the end of feventy to feventy-four hours, the intermiflions feldom become B 4* complete](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21902082_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
