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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    [ «5« ] the prefliire of the finger will leave a flight indentation, as in cafes of anafarca. An erroneous conclusion, however, from this deceptive appearance, may always be guard- ed againft, by a proper attention to the ilrength of the pulfe, the tonic ftate of the niufcular fibres, and the other figns of a vi- gorous action of the fyftem. In thefefwel- lings accompanying the acute rheumatifm, there is always a confiderable degree of tenfion and elafticity, which are evidently owing to vafcular diftention, and not to the effufion of the interftitial fluid. In the early part of life there appears to be a confiderable predifpofition in the fyftem to be affected with the acute rheumatifm. Of eighty-feven cafes which came under my treatment, in the different ft ages of life, the number, which occurred in each period, and in each fex, will appear in the following table. TABLE.