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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    [ £62 ] the fourth and fifth weeks. Of this number I received reports of eighty-four ; fifty-nine of which were cured; twenty-one relieved, moft of which were cafes of out-patients, who from neglect difcontinued their reports; two were not relieved; and two proved fatal. It appears therefore, that near three-fourths of the whole were completely cured ; and it is highly probable, we mould have heard that the greater number of the twenty-one patients relieved were foon after cured, had they, or their friends for them, returned and finimed their reports. When the difeafe came under medicinal treatment in the fecond or third week; when the febrile fymptoms were moderate ; when the parts pained were not numer- ous, and experienced no confiderable tran- iitions, recurrences, or exacerbations of the pains; in proportion as thefe circum- flances more or lefs concurred, the cure was found to be the more eafily and fpeedily obtained ; and in general took place within the firft week's treatment, on the fudorific plan, the ufe of the lancet being occafion- ally