An essay towards an improvement in the cure of those diseases which are the cause of fevers / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Thomas Kirkland
Date:
1767
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Credit: An essay towards an improvement in the cure of those diseases which are the cause of fevers / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the wound, a nervous ftridture, or fpafm, univerfally prevails upon the lefler order of veftels.—But the tenfion at the wound go¬ ing off, this ftridture of courfe gives way, and admits a paflage to the feculencies which had been detained in the blood.— - / And may not this be the cafe in every kind of fever, as either tenfion or acrimony will, in a greater or lefs degree, caufe the fame kind of fpafms ?—Turbid urine therefore, except when it is turbid from matter be¬ ing abforbed from abfcefies, only feems to point out, that the obftrudted veflels are become pervious, and that a recovery is like to enfue; the fediment afterwards {hew¬ ing that the caufe of the difeafe is removed; for in confequence of the fever having ceafed, the different kind of fluids, &c. are not fo intimately mixed, but that they will feparate in a ftate of reft. So that turbid urine, inftead of being the caufe, is only the confequence of a folution of the difeafe > whether it is owing to the materia morbi being luckily corre&ed by medicines, or having efcaped 1 perhaps, where there has 1 After the eruption of the fmall pox, the urine lets fall a fediment. been
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