An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life / By William Falconer.

  • William Falconer
Date:
1789
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Credit: An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life / By William Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceed, not indeed without regard to other circum- ffanccs, but neverthelefs as conlidering them as fubfervient only to the principal objedL An atten¬ tion to this circumfiance is efpecially proper when the parts that are the feat of the complaint are im¬ mediately neceffary to life, as in inflammations of the brain, lungs, bowels, or any of the vifcera; in fuch cafes, there is no time to be loft, and what many would think bold practice, is indeed the only means of efcape. It is proper indeed to be careful, that the com¬ plaint originally be of fuch a nature as to require bleeding at all; and in this, it mult be confeffed, even the molt acute perfons of the profeffion have been deceived. The intermittent fever fometimes comes on with fuch violent fymptoms as to referable very ftrongly an inflammatory fever. But a little time generally refolves the difficulty, and the fucceffive and clear- marked itages of cold, heat, and fweat, are for the molt part fufficient to determine the nature of the diforder, even before any intermiffion takes place, and any neceffity of beginning to treat it as a fever of a different kind. Even if it fhould be miftaken, and fome blood drawn, this evacuation has been often found ferviceable in the beginning of inter- mittents, when the fymptoms are violent, and is recommended
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