Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark in the cure of agues and other fevers : interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark in the cure of agues and other fevers : interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5° ] the obje(5t of the phyhcian to know which of two or more difeafes are moft'deferving of his early attention, which the human body may labour under at the fame time. He will generally find, that as the paroxyfm of an Intermittent Fever excites fuch violent adtion in the fyftem, and generally aggravates the lymptoms of other difeafes, it ought to be early removed. In fome cafes however I have feen fach adtive appearances of inflammation pre- vailing in a perfon labouring under an In- termittent Fever, and fb much encreafed in the hot fit, that unlefs a quantity of blood had been taken, which was always fizy, the patient mofl: probably would have died. Such fymptoms of inflam- mation retard the cure of the Intermit- tent, and therefore are in the firfl; inflancc to be removed. This