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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    f4-] The author comes now therefore to treat of the care of patients in a convalefcent {tate, aftera regular continued fever. If acrifis fhould arife at the beginning of the firft week of a regular continued fever, or before the fixth day, the difeafe moft commonly returns, and becomes an inter- mittent. The author muft again take notice of the fuppofition, that there is fome matter to he altered in the progrefs of a fever before it can be expelled from the fyftem, which he has {hewn is only fuppofition, and is un- _fupported by any experiment, no man hav. ing ever feen, fmelt, or tafted fuch matter ; it has however been often inculcated, that fuch matter muft be fubdued by allowing the intermittent to go on. If however a crifis fhould take place in the firft week of a regular continued fever, and if the crifis fhould be perfect or nearly fo, if there fhould be confiderable {weating, if the tongue fhould be clean or nearly fo, “