The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital.

  • William Nisbet
Date:
1796
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Credit: The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    3. Intermittents arife always from one determined]! caufe, viz. marfh miafmata, and depend on a particular] moid ftate of the atmofphere, departing in a dry fea-| fon, and attacking chiefly thofe of a lax fibre. Wheref the difeafe arifes apparently from other caufes, the in-] lluence of the marfh miafma is probably joined. 4. Intermittents differ from all other fevers in this! peculiar circumftance, viz. their tendency to recur with-l out the application of their fpecific caufe. Thus, an particular times of the feafon, as the fpring, and alfoj on changes of weather, efpecially in this country when! eaft winds fet in, thofe once labouring under an inter4 mittent experience, in a greater or lefs degree, a re4 newed attack of it. Hence it would feem a pre-dif-j pofition is left in the habitj favouring the recurrence} of the difeafe. 5. Every fit is divided into three diftindt ftages, den noted by coldnefs, heat, and /wearing ; and the commence-] ment of thefe fits takes place with the quotidian in the! morning, with the tertian at noon, and with the quar4 tan in the afternoon. 6. In the cold ftage, a remarkable rigor comes onj with pain of head, back, and loins, difficult refpirationj and a quick contracted pulfe, attended with vomiting! which, in the autumnal kind, is of a bilious nature]! and generally terminates this ftage, by far the mofl dangerous. 7. Thefe fymptoms abating, the fecond ftage begini with a fenfe of heat from the back, and fullnefs, an<j even hardnefs of the pulfe, the pain of the head increa] fmg, and delirium frequently coming on, with gresfl third and whitenefs of the tongue, a fenfe of pain, and