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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    recommended on fucb occafions by the moft judi¬ cious practitioners. A careful examination of cir- cumftances will, for the moft part, enable us to diftinguilh this diforder at its firft appearance. Moift weather, and a feafon of the year about either the vernal or autumnal equinoxes, the latter efpecially, and the frequency of the diforder in the neighbourhood, afford ftrong prefumptions in favour of a fever being of the intermittent kind to which we may add, fuch obfervations as may be drawn from the nature of the foil and fituation, and the bufinefs or work in which thofe. attacked with the complaint had been employed, previous to its firft coming on. It is an opinion generally received, that if bleed¬ ing be omitted at the beginning of fevers, it is im proper in their advanced ftate, and this is in fome meafure true. Fevers that commenced with in¬ flammatory fymptoms often become putrid as they proceed, and bleeding is certainly improper in fuch circumftances. But I wrould obferve, that this caution holds more ftrongly with regard to the enfeebled inhabitants of towns, than for robuft countrymen. I apprehend that bleeding, though certainly more likely to be of fervice if tried at the beginning of the difeafe, is neverthelefs proper at every period when inflammatory fymptoms are I>3