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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    P3186 |] treating of regular tertian intermittents, or will be faid in treating of irregular intermit- tents in a future differtation. Suppofing that preparations of antimony, — _|pecacuanha, or any other medicine which has the property of producing fymptoms fimilar to thofe which arife in the ordinary crifis of a regular con*‘nued fever have been exhibited, and that they have actually pro- duced thefe appearances which take place in fuch crifis, and there is a freedom from the fymptoms of fever equal to that which has already been defcribed, in this cafe the bark of the cinchona fhould alfo be employed as has been defcribed. | Suppofing that in the beginning of a re~ gular continued fever there fhould be much greater pain in the forehead, or over the whole head externally, and that either by ap- plying leeches to the temples, or otherwife making topical evacuations from the head by bleeding, orif in a fimilar cafe blifters have been applied in the firft days of a fever be- hind the ears, or otherwife to any part of the head, and the pain has ceafed, and all