The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nefs of Breath 3 whereas Shortnefs of Breath is not always an Indication for Bleeding, There are three Caufes of a Dyfpncea, or Shortnefs of Breath 3 Inflammation, Convul- fion, and Plenitude 3 Bleeding in Convul¬ sions, if it has not been, ought to be explo¬ ded 3 and in Fulnefs, occaficned by Drop- lies, it is pernicious to the laft Degree. I shall make no Scruple to affirm, That Shortnefs of Breath, though it be what we term A5iio Lcefa, makes no Diftemper, with¬ out fome other bad Symptoms attending it 3 if it did, a Man who runs, or ufes any vio¬ lent Exercife, caufing Shortnefs of Breathing, might be faid to be diftemper’d. Neither, in other Cafes, is Shortnefs of Breath to be looked on as any Thing but the Effed of fome Difeafe cauflng great Weak- nefs, which on the leaft Motion is followed with Difficulty of Breathing. I t may feern ftrange that this Difeafe, viz. a Dropfy, fhould be fo grofly miftaken 3 when the Condition of a Woman, near the Time of her Delivery, is not more apparent to the Eye, than that of an hy dr epical Per- fon. However, this fhews what great Rea- B 3 fon§