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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    fevers were efteemcd by Pringle not pituitous, but xnfiamrhktorj and fcmguinous, and treeated as fuch. Continued fevers are divided in- to continent, remittent, and compound ones. 6i. But as the motion of continued fevers in fome is equable, and almoft uniform, but in others unequal, and fome-J times prevalent, at others fubfi- ding at certain intervals, fo that fome J feem to be almoft continued, and to obferve the fame motion without interruption* throughout their whole courfe ; while others, al- though they have no intermiftion, yet, at ftated times, experience a remiftion, and again become J aggravated, as if they conlifted of feveral mani- fcftly didinift; courfes * : it follows, that, accord- ing to what Nature points out, continued fevers, for the fake of perfpicuity, Ihould ftill be divided into fimplc continuedfevers, or thofe of one courfe, and into remittent, or fuch as confift of feveral diftinct courfes, without any intermiftion, or in- to compound ones. The former are ufually call- ed continent]', in a particular manner, likewile conclnfa by us, by the Greeks fynochi; the latter remittent, oefynocbc. * Galen (De diff. Febr. 1. 2. c. i.) obferves : “ But, there t are two kinds of continued fevers proceeding from yellow bile: ' one of thofe, which are called fy nochi, that is, continent fe- * vers, of which there is uniformly an uninterrupted paroxyfm ^ from the beginning to the end. Another of thofe fevers, y which are called continued, and confift of many particular courfcs.
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