Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler.

  • Thomas Fowler
Date:
1795
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t *5« ] be feized with febrile fymptoms and the pains on the fame day. The febrile fymptoms will alfo frequently abate before there is any fenfible diminution of the pains : but they will likewife as often decline about the fame time; and it rarely occurs, that the pains go off before t&e fe- brile fymptoms have difappeared. Of cafes of acute rheumatifm in general, about one-fourth of any given number may be confidered as only femi-acute; for in thefe the febrile fymptoms will be found Highter, the parts affected fewer in number, and the pains much milder than in the ma- jority of the cafes. For example, of eighty- feven cafes of general acute rheumatifm, twenty-five came under this defcription; and therefore if the epithet acute be allowed to fignify, either wholly, or chiefly, what belongs to the febrile fymptoms attending the difeafe, it is prefumed, thefe milder cafes may receive, without any violation of propriety, the approbation of femi-acute. In ftrongly marked cafes of the acute rheumatifm, the pulfe is generally as fre-