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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    Ew] The action of the infufion of oak bark is in this cafe upon the part that has not been changed by the putrefaction ; that part It coagulates as it always would have done; but upon that part which has already been changed by the putrefadtion, it has no ef-. fect. For not only fermentation, but alfo folu- tion and other chemical proceffes, do not take place in every particle of the mafs that is acted upon, at the fame inftant, but progref- fively; that is, firft upon one.part of the mafs, in that part the properties are totally changed; the properties of the remaining part continuing pertectly the fame. Thus, if a piece of lime be thrown into a veflel containing muriatic acid, as foon as _ it is thrown in, a part of the muriatic acid combines with a part of the lime, and forms a compound, viz. calx muriata, whofe proper- ties are perfectly different from the properties of the muriatic acid, or the properties of the lime, the remaining muriatic acid and the remaining lime retaining each its own N properties,