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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    rr] into their, ordinary ftate as in health,’ the patient fleeps, and has his appetite re- ftored. ‘Though an inflammation produced in any exterior part of the body now and then carries off fever entirely, yet it has but fel- dom this effect ; it only commonly alleviates. the difeafe, or takes off fome of the fymp- toms; it fometimes carries off head-ach or” diminifhes it; it diminithes, rarely carries off delirium entirely: if it has arifen; and fo of the other appearances which take place-in fever. | ~~ ’ Since exciting an inflammation fometimes alleviates and carries off the fymptoms of fever from particular parts of the body, if it fhould happen that one part of the body fhould be more affected in the fever than the other parts, an inflammation’ excited near that part is more apt'to carry off the- particular affection of that part, than one excited at a diftance. If, for inftance,*there fhould be great pain in the forehead, an in- flammation excited behind the ears is more