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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    [ ] oftener in fome former period of life; and thofe which have very lately happened. In the latter cafe the acute rheumatifm com- monly enfues within two, three, or four /Weeks after the termination of rheumatic fe- ver, or during the period of convalefcence, when it is generally diftinguimed by the name of a relapfe. Several examples of each kind are contained in the preceding Reports. Expofure to cold, efpecially of a fudden, and immediately after the body has been heated, appears to be the moft frequent exciting caufe of the acute rheumatifm. Many other caufes have been enumerated by authors; but it muft be acknowledged, that the difeafe will very frequently take place without any affignable exciting caufe whatever. Of acute difeafes perhaps there are few or none, in the cure of which the utility of remedies will be found more confpicu- ous, than the acute rheumatifm. Of eighty-feven acute cafes, which came' under my treatment, forty-eight occurred in the firft week of the difeafe, thirty-four in the fecond and third weeks, and five in S 3 the