Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers ... To which is prefix'd a large introduction concerning the use and abuse of mathematicks in physick ... where also the Euodia medicorum is annex'd / [Edward Strother].

  • Strother, Edward, 1675-1737
Date:
1716
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    quence to lome, which were plain Indications for them: Alio in the Pejlis itfelf, no other Method, without Scandal, is allowed to be followed * tho’ Au¬ thors differ in the Manner and Continuance of them: But our Country-man Sydenham, in copying lome Antients, a£ls moil prudently in this Affair, in con¬ tinuing them for Four and twenty Hours, without Interruption, or Change of the Sheets or Linen ? for, FolU quod putridum, non alter art pojlulat, is meant of fuch a State of Fever. Hippocrates1 s Remark is. That ogy&flss eodem die exturbandi, Aphor. 2\»fe$. i.and Aphor. 10.Jeff. 4, We mull then enquire what this Turgefeence im¬ plies 5 and we fhall then be enabled to judge when to evacuate. In general. Humours are laid ogyav (turgere) when they range in the Mafs $ and tho5 they fix no-where, yet they create an uneafmefs, and feem to invite us to expel them. If we add they turgefce, when they are in great Plenty *, when they are concoffed * and when they are Pejiilential5 we may, in all thefe Cafes, conclude, that Evacua¬ tion is lomewhere requir’d. Evacuations then mull be made, when indicated 5 the Negle£t of which, in due Sealbn, is juftly imputed to be the Fault of fiich who are firlt call’d, 6. After the State, that is, after there is a plain Abatement of the Symptoms, and the Urine fepa- rates 5 you may ufe proper Evacuations, whether Purgatives or Bleeding. Care mult be taken, that what is critically expelFd, be not driven back again into the Mals. Now it is that critical Eruptions are to be encouraged. The Times in which Crifes are perform’d are very different in the feverai Spe¬ cies of Fevers * in which the Eruptive fort are^ by *much, the molt active. N 2 7. If