Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![* [ ] than truth in his reafoning, and it pro¬ bably depends upon caufes with which we are and fliall be for ever unac¬ quainted.—In fome cafes, and that not unfrequently, a delirium comes on towards the clofe of the clifeafe. The Heftic fever that attends this and fome other chronic difeafes is evi¬ dently the effeft of acrimony, and moft commonly of pus, abforbed and carried into the circulation. The na¬ ture of this acrimony and the different irritability of different patients are pro¬ bably the fources of the variety we ob- ferve in fevers of this denomination, a variety which is doubtlefs much greater than we are aware of, Thus we find that , ■>% the matter of the final 1 pox excites a fever of thk^kind ; but this fecondary fever, ' ' 1 t as it is called, differs from the heftic attendant on confumptions : nor does](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
