A dissertation on the inflammatory, gangrenous, and putrid sore throat. Also on the putrid fever, together with their diagnosticks and method of cure / [Francis Penrose].

  • Francis Penrose
Date:
1766
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Credit: A dissertation on the inflammatory, gangrenous, and putrid sore throat. Also on the putrid fever, together with their diagnosticks and method of cure / [Francis Penrose]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 5° ) « » • Ceived a Flu&uation under her right Ear • which was opened, when it difcharged about two large Spoonfuls of a well co.nco£ted Matter, which continued to difcharge about another Week, though every Day lefs and lefs. She continued to recover her Appetite and Strength daily, till fhe arrived to as good a State of Health as fhe enjoyed before her Illnefs, * * From the Neceflity there was of altering the Medicines in this Cafe, as well as a great many others; the Mifchievouf- ttefs and Abfurdity of the too general Credulity in NoftYums, may be obferved : For, from thefe Examples, it muft appear that, if they are of any Efficacy, the Death of many Perfons muft be occafioned by them. Obfervations of this Kind will fhew why two Phyficians may treat the fame Diforder, at different Times, with different and even oppofite Medicines; and will alfo fhew us that they might hav« both atted upon the fame Principle; and that both, at different Stages of the Diforder, ufed the moft proper Methods to affift their Patient. To illuftrate this, and place it in the cleared; Light I can, I fhall fuppofe, for Inftance, that thefe two were concerned with the fame Patient in the Small Pox; as this is a Diforder that cannot be miftaken. Now, on the firft Seizure, one of the Phyficians is called in ; he finds his Patient under great Pains, Sicknefs, &c. and all the other Symptoms of an inflammatory Fever; he alfo knows, both from his own Experience and that of others* that if the Small Pox fucceeds when the Perfon is before inflamed, either by catching of Cold, Drinking, or by being over-heated from Exercife, or by any Thing elfe ; He has it to a much more violent Degree, than, in all Probability he would have had it, had not this been the Cafe. He alfo obferves that, where Nature is left to herfelf, and does her own Offices without the Affiftance of Art, there it always follows that the more gentle the Fever and the longer the Time
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