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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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    i al Of FEVERS. 29 turbulent Fluid. Nor is there any Dan- ger that by this Means we fhall obftruct or retard Nature in her Endeavours to promote a Crifis, which (as has been faid ) is always dependent upon the Bile, for it is a great Affliftance to Nature to relieve her in this Point, and (asit were) . take Part of her Work off her Hands; and let. us do all we can, there will fil] xemain a fuficient Quantity for her to combat with. The Naufeoufnefs and Propenfity to vomit in the Beginning of this Diffemper is an Indication ftrong enough to authorize this Practice, were it not ftrengthned by many other cogent Reafons*. Repeated Experiments have convinced me thorowly of the Truth and Juftnefs of Doctor Sydenham’s Ob- feryation, when he fays, * Vomitu per- * Sane vomitorium propinare ubi pregrefla eft vomen- di proclivitas aded eft neceffarium, ut nifi humor ille expellatur, in fentinam complurium malorum difficili- | um fit abiturus, que crucem figent medico toto durante medicationis tempore, egrumque in haud leve periculun conjicient. Sydenham. I atto