A third dissertation on fever. Part I. Containing the history and method of treatment of a regular continued fever. Supposing it is left to pursue its ordinary course / [George Fordyce].

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1798
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Credit: A third dissertation on fever. Part I. Containing the history and method of treatment of a regular continued fever. Supposing it is left to pursue its ordinary course / [George Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ff 489-4] order in it, fuch derangement preventing perfe&t intermiflions from taking place. But if it be known, from the rules that have already been laid down, that the dif- eafe is more likely to be a continued fever, although no nourifhment is wanted imme- diately, there will afterwards come a time when a much greater quantity of nourith- ment will be required. The derangement of the organs of digeftion is not fo great in the firft days of the difeafe, as it comes to be afterwards; fo that upon the whole, confidering what may. happen afterwards, that is to fay, how much nourifhment will be wanted, it is better not to let the patient fink, but give him as much food, and fuch food, from the beginning, as will not produce any difturbances from its quantity or quality. Every kind of food which is adhefive to the ftomach when it gets into it, produces confiderable difturbances in the fyftem dur- ing the time it remains in the ftomach; fuch as ftrong folution of gum arabic, jellies formed from the meat, of young animals, or from the membraneous parts of animals “4s Say 33 diffolved