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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[144 ] which however have foon gone off. He does not think, therefore, that in fo {mall a dofe it can be very efficacious. Again, ina fever which is running on for two or three weeks, and in which no effica~ cious medicines have been employed with fuccefs, but the difeafehas gone on in its ordi- nary courfe, the flavour of camphor gives the appearance of the practitioner’s doing fome- thing efficacious, or at leaft attempting to do fomething while he is regarding the progrefs of a fever purfuing its ordinary courfe. It is wearifome to the patient, as well as to the bye-f{tanders and to the prac- titioner, to conceive that no remedy having any efficacy can be exhibited. This, the author. fufpects, has been the caufe that camphor has been exhibited ; its flavour, however, often difagrees with the patient’s {tomach, and produces ficknefs or naufea that prevents him from ufing food of fuffi- cient nourifhment. The author has all along confidered a re- gular continued fever to be fimilar to a re- gular](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33086321_0150.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
