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

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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$H9 jat all liften to thofe to whom this diftmfbon ifeetns very difficult. For that very (hort fpace of ttime, during which the artery vibrates, efpecially jiif the pulfe at the fame time be frequent, can ifcarcely, if at all, be obferved and afcertained. ; But that this kind of celerity is diftinft from fre- Luency, is .edified by Bellini*, Hallerf, Sal- vages J, Morgagni |], De Haen §, and other very experienced and toilful phyftcians, from whom, if 1 may be allowed to fubjoin my own experience, I myfelf do not differ in opinion. * De urina ct pulf. p. 72. Elem. Phyf. T. 2. p« 248. \ De febrib. n. 10. II De cauf. et fed. morb. ep. 24. et 32. $ Rat. Med. P. xii. p. 27. 12. Thofe, therefore, who cannot fupport the frequency and velocity of b«» «<' the pulfe, affirm that this celerity is p«ife? never disjoined from fever. Among diem Tre- melius * efteems it fo effentially neceffary a part of fever, that he never obferved a flow, or natu- ral pulfe in fever, which did not evince itfelf to be of a febrile kind by that celerity ofjlrcke. But a little afterwards he feems to diilrult that lymp- tom, when he voluntarily acknowledges, that cele- rity of the pulfe, the concomitant ol fever, is H4$