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The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D., on acute and chronic diseases; wherein their histories and modes of cure, as recited by him, are delivered with accuracy and perspicuity to which are subjoined notes, corrective and explanatory, from the most eminent medical writers; adapting the whole to the present improved state of physic, and shewing under what classes, orders, and genera, most of the complaints treated of are arranged by nosologists. With a variety of annotations / by George Wallis.

  • Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.
Date:
1788
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Credit: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D., on acute and chronic diseases; wherein their histories and modes of cure, as recited by him, are delivered with accuracy and perspicuity to which are subjoined notes, corrective and explanatory, from the most eminent medical writers; adapting the whole to the present improved state of physic, and shewing under what classes, orders, and genera, most of the complaints treated of are arranged by nosologists. With a variety of annotations / by George Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Aged per- fons fome- Of the epidemic Difeafes all kinds of evacuations feem to be indicated, in order to make a revulfion of the humours from the head, as is generally practifed in the genuine apoplexy, yet they are to be wholly refrained, becaufe they are very prejudicial in» the intermittents, whence this fymptom origi- nally proceeds, and confequently endanger life, as I have obferved. On the contrary, therefore, we mutt wait till the fit goes off fpontaneoully, when the bark (in cafe it could not be given fooner) muft be immediately exhibited, and carefully repeated in the intervals, till the pa- tient be perfectly recovered. 3. It fometimes happens, though very rarely, manage~ mente bleeding and purging, are feized with a diabetes,* though * Are feized with diabetes, és, There feems at prefent much uncertainty refpeéting this difeafe ; various are the — opinions relative to the proximate caufe ; Map confiders it as an affection of the liver, not of the kidneys ; others attribute it to fpafins of the fecretory organs; fome to a di- minution of perfpiration, or the increafed inhalation. It is generally thought by fome to deduce its origin from the laxity of the fecretory organs of the kidneys, or from fome fome pains on this fubjeét, and has given two accurate hif- tories of this difeafe, with the modes of cure, unfuccefsfully attempted, though the two patients had exhanfted all that experience had ever recommended, and almoft all that theory could fuggeit, confiders it as arifing from a defect of the animal or afimilatory powers of the conftitution, by which the aliment is converted into the nature of our body, and defines it, *¢ An increafed difcharge of fweetifh urine; ‘< perpetual thirft; a dry, and moft commonly fcaly fkin.’” Of which he diftinguifhes two fpecies. 1. Diabetes aquofz, when the urine is of a diaphanous wa- tery colour; and, , 2. Lace