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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    [ Sa7.4] rected.to the application of remedies that _ will either remove the difeafe, or make it go through its natural eourfe without danger to the, patient, or with a lefs degree than it otherwife would, . totally neglecting the caufe which firft produced it. General inflammation excited by a dif- eafe affeCting fome part neceffary for life, - might however be fatal, independent of the topical: inflammation which occafioned it. In this cafe it would be neceflary to employ means to take off the general inflammation; but they arecommonly the fame as. thofe which take off the topical inflammation, and totally different from thofe that fhould be employed to take off fever. When rheumatifin excites general inflam- mation, the general inflammation frequently appears to be the piincipal difeafe ; and until Jately practitioners have thought it ought to be carried off by large evacuations, efpecially by bleeding. Dr. Hugh Smith, an ex- traordinary practitiongr, conceived that the evening attacks of yilent pain, frequently . happening