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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    cag] fectly as: when in abfolute health. Some- times his fleep is difturbed ; he does not. go to fleep readily; his fleep during the night>is broken, and he is not refrefhed fo much as ufual. It happens fometimes that thefe fymptoms go off in a few days; fome- times they all at once increafe very confider- ably, and form a paroxy{m, which is the beginning of the fever. : The ftate of fleep has been varioufly reprefented by writers upon it, whe- ther phyficians or metaphyficians. The effects of fleep in fever, and particularly in continued fever, are fo great, that it may be neceflary for the author to ftate his ideas on the fubject. Whence or how the powers of exertion, and the various operations, either of the — body or mind, are produced, it is impoffible to fay: or at leaft every thing that has hi- therto been faid on the fubject is vifionary. It has already been obferved, that the power exerted by the mufcles is not de- C% rived