Volume 1

The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.

Date:
1800-1803
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Credit: The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1 OF INFLAMMATION. 97 the enjoined. And if ever the ftrength be brought <down by immoderate evacuations, or by the ac- iceflion of a putrid diaphorelis, cardiacs, antifep- ltics, and efpecially wine, have been found to ]prove of wonderful efficacy. For it often hap- pens, that, in confequence of the force of a violent j fever being long kept up, and exceffive heat . arifing from that caufe, the blood and other fluids acquire an alkalefcenf nature, and fometimes pafs on to a putrid diffolution. Which, when it does happen, (although it happens much feldomer than is commonly believed), the difpofition of the complaint being altered, requires more powerful antifeptics, efpecially the foffil acids. 74. It mult, however, be obferved, that, not unfrequently, after the digeftion of pus, the fepa- ration and excretion of the morbific matter is re- tarded. When this happens, the generality of practitioners endeavour to promote it by gentle cathartics ; nay, when they fufpeCt that the com- plaint has not been fuffid!?ntly refolved, they have recourfe to fuch remedies to prevent its relapfe. And thefe.fame, or not diffimilar, remedies are throws noxious effluvia into the body, makes the patient an- xious and afthmatic, injures the nerves and mufcular power, favours putrefaction, &c. Such is now called phlogifticatcd air, (azotic gas). Animals confined in it are fuffocated by their own exhalations. ' Vol. r. G
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