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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    f: ton] fleep, however capricious it may be in havy- ing this effect during the difeafe. | Where a regular continued fever is left to purfue its ordinary courfe, the efforts that take place in the fever, and the want of fufficient nourifhment and fleep, frequently weaken the patient towards the end of the difeafe to fuch a degree as to be dangerous, and even in fome cafes fatal. It often hap- pens likewife, that this weaknefs is greatly increafed by evacuations which have -been unneceflarily made by injudicious practi- tioners. -Weaknefs is alfo induced by eva- cuations which arife from irregularity of the fever, and which confequently will be- come the fubject of a future differtation. Weaknefs alfo often takes place for want of food, firft from the neceffity of with- holding food from. the patient in fufficient quantity; if the patient fhould take in a larger quantity of food, from its not being digefted and converted into blood, it mutt either be evacuated without change, or converted into water, and carried off by an effort which would fill fur- R ther