A third dissertation on fever. Part II. Containing an inquiry into the effects of the remedies, which have been employed with a view to carry off a regular continued fever without leaving it to pursue its ordinary course / [George Fordyce].

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1799
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Credit: A third dissertation on fever. Part II. Containing an inquiry into the effects of the remedies, which have been employed with a view to carry off a regular continued fever without leaving it to pursue its ordinary course / [George Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f~ 406. ] their ordinary courfe equally, whether the cold or infection continue to be applied or not. The author has already obferved, that it happens often in fever that inflammation | takes place at the very beginning of the dif- eafe, in the firft or fecond paroxy{m, and that fuch inflammations immediately carries off the difeafe without any thing like the appearances which take place in the crifis of a fever, but that the fever fimply ceafes. If it be fuch an inflammation as produces no affection of the fyftem, as external inflam- mations often do not, then the fymptoms of the inflammation in the part affected with it only continue. If the inflammation be fuch as produces frequency of pulfe, heat, and other general affections of thefyftem, though » it fhould arife from fever, if itarofe fromany other caufe than fever, the frequency of the pulfe, and other fymptoms, will bethe fame as if it had not arifen from fever, and continue although the fever be cured, and fubfide when the inflammation is carried off by means which would not affect the fever. T fuppofe in the fecond day of fever a pleurily fhould