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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    Pinay >] It has been already faid, that ether and oleum vini, diffolved in alcohol, fometimes produce fleep, in which fleep a crifis of the fever now and then takes place, and the difeafe is entirely carried off ; but this has been fufficiently treated of in the firft part of this differtation. Refinous fubftances, fuch as _ galba- num, fagapenum, oppoponax, &c. have. fometimes been made ufe of, but rather ag laxatives, than with a view of carrying off the difeafe. Affafcetida, gum ammoniac, procured from the fame clafs of umbellife- rous plants, though they have been much employedasantifpafmodics in other difeafes, yet as far as has come to the knowledge of the author, they have not been made ufe of with a view of carrying off or diminifhing fever. | Mufk has been employed, in many cafes, towards the end ef a regular fever, where the ftrength has been much diminifhed, with a view however rather of ftimulating and keeping up the ftrength of the patient, than . as .