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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    [ ] CASE XI. William Peekin, of Stafford, aged twen- ty-four, an out-patient, but little relieved of acute rheumatifm, of fome days continu- ance, by lofing eight ounces of blood from the arm. rafter, are fufficiently frequent to require fome notice in every general account of the difeafe. Accordingly they have been more or lefs attended to by moft fyftematic writers, under the general term of' metaftafis ; but they have never been defcribed by any appropriate terms, and therefore the words tranfition, recurrence, and exacer- bation are here recommended for that purpofe ; and, it is hoped, that, under the following explanations, their mean- ings will be defined with precifion, and their adoption will not be confidered as an ufelefs innovation. By the tranfition of pains is meant the flliftingof the pains from one limb to another, or from different parts of the body to others, during the continuance of the rheumatic fever. By the recurrence of pains is implied their return to any particular part, or parts, from which they had lately receded, during the continuance of the difeafe. By the exacerbation of pains is intended their tran- fient increafe, or aggravation, in any part or parts of the body, during the continuance of the difeafe ; whether on different days, or in different parts of the fame day.
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