Volume 3

Elements of the theory and practice of physic : designed for the use of students / by George Gregory.

  • George Gregory
Date:
1823
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    disposition is manifest, the system is to be supported. To a certain extent indeed, it must be allowed that the character of the fever is under the controul of the practitioner, who by vigorous treatment at the onset may prevent many symptoms of malignancy or putrescency; but this principleis only of partial application, for he has no contren] over the charac- ter of the epidemic. The other extreme however is equally to be avoided, which is regulating altogether the early treatment by the consideration of the pos- stble symptoms which may arise. In a disease assu- A consideration of the best means of diminishing the high excitement which prevails in the early stage of scarlatina anginosa, affords us a second general principle of treatment. At one time it was supposed that blood-letting was necessary ; but experience has proved, that in the cold affusion we possess a means of controuling this state of disease, safer and equally heat of skin renders the cold affusion grateful to the dren, in whom it can be applied with facility. In common cases of scarlet fever there is not that weak- mess which the necessary exertion would augment. There is no tendency to affection of the chest, as in measles, which the application of cold to the surface might aggravate. An ulcerated state of the throat forms no objection to its use. On the contrary, the