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A treatise of the diseases most frequent in the West-Indies, and herein more particularly of those which occur in Barbadoes ... / [Richard Towne].

  • Towne, Richard
Date:
1726
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Credit: A treatise of the diseases most frequent in the West-Indies, and herein more particularly of those which occur in Barbadoes ... / [Richard Towne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » tam ae. J ay wr ors a ined Of FEVERS. 25 froni ocular Teftimony affords us Ine ftances of the Drynefs of the Parts, and the Emptinels of the Blood-Veffels in fuch as have dyed of Fevers, and Ex- periments teach us that the Serum of the Blood may be turned into a Jelly by a moderate Heat. : The firft thing incumbent upon the Phyfician in thefe Fevers, is to order the Patient to be blooded as foon as he is called to his Affiftance, and the Quan- tity is to be determined by the Force of the Diftemper and the Strength of the Perfon t, though it will rarely be found that any ill Event is to be charged up- on performing this Duty with too li- beral a hand. I am fare an ill timed Tendernefs on this Occafion has often paved the Way to infuperable Difficul- fenuat, acriora reddit, exhalat, movet; hinc minima vafa atterit, rumpit, fibras ficcat, rigidas, contractafque reddit. Hine fubito multos, celeres, periculofos, lethales morbos producit ; quia priori facilé deducj poilunt. Boerhaave Aph. 689. s] t Refpiciendum non que etas fit, nec guid in corpore mtus geratur, fed que vires fint, Celjzs Lib. ii. Cap. x. ties,