Enquiry into the propriety of blood-letting in consumptions / [Samuel Farr].

  • Samuel Farr
Date:
1775
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Credit: Enquiry into the propriety of blood-letting in consumptions / [Samuel Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3^ ] is accompanied with a fhort dry cough, which is hardly taken notice of till it is too late to afford relief for it. So much for the origin ol the difeafe. But if we purfue it to that Aage in which the whole confti- tution feems to be affe&ed, we fhall find ^ that the fource of every fy mp tom is a high degree of acrimony in the fluids, and of debility in the folids, of the fyftem which mutually a£t upon each other to produce the mo ft direful effedts—How then is blood-letting indicated, which we 'have alt along confidered as productive of weaknefs where great plenitude did not obtain, and to which only it was accounted a relief.—But we have already feen that blood-letting will be of fervice to the ■ lungs which are oppreffed by too great a weight of fluid, though an univerfal ple¬ nitude doth not obtain, and that it relieves that laborious breathing which makes life fo uncomfortable, and often threatens a fuffocation. We will allow that bleeding does at the time relieve this complaint j but when it returns, and return it will. it recurs witii double violence, till the j iiw »s obliged to fubmit to its force. And
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