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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![75: ] We can therefore have little éxpeCation of their preventing putrefaction arifing from depreffion of ftrength taking place in fever; neither are vitriolic acid, Peruvian bark, &c. found actually to prevent putrefaction, when it arifes from the depreffion of ftrength in a violent fever. Moreover it has been conceived, that not only putrefaction might be prevented when it arofe in the folids and fluids of the body, but likewife that the parts that had already undergone putrefaction to a certain degree, might be made to return again to that found flate from which they became putrid. If animal folids putrify, the firft appear- ances are, that they acquire an adhefivenefs to other fubftances greater than they had be- fore ; they become of a greenifh or brownith colour, and emit a fetid vapour, and are more foft and flabby. If they be taken in this ftate, and diluted vitriolic acid be ap- plied to them, they lofe their adhefivenels, become firmer, nearer their colour when found,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33086321_0181.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
