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

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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$i 439;.] to the degree or univerfality of the con- traction. This _depreffion continues in many initances when the contraction in many parts of the body is gone off. There is hkkewile a regularity in the attacks, hot fits, and crifis of the difeafe, not at all fimilar to what happens in thofe contractions which are called {pafmodic, thefe being almoft al- There are certain remedies which, being applied to the ftomach or fkin, or fome other parts of the body of a patient affect- ed with {fpafmodic contractions, in many fpafm. Ina f{pafmodic contraétion of. the mufcles of the calf of the leg, wether pour-. ed upon the fkin of the leg will, in fome cafes, immediately carry off the contrac- tion. ms It is to be remarked with regard to thefe medicines, that they have fomething pecu- liar in tafte and {mell, which we have not fufficient words to exprefs; indeed we have few words to exprefs the fenfations which$