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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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    88. But throughout thofe years in which this fever fhall prevail Chow many foever they may be) intermittents may at times appear, and per- haps prove epidemic for a fhort fpace, namely, when fome manifeft temperature of the air fhall ees | contribute thereto. Whether the bark will cure teem.” this fever as certainly as it ufually does the pre- cic = fent reigning intermittents, I cannot fay; but it it be given in the plague, and the continued epidemics which will regularly follow this, we muft expect the fame effects from it, which we now find it produces inthe pleurify, the peripuen- mony, quinfey, and the like inflammatory fevers, in which diforders it not only does no fervice, but is manifeftly pernicious. But however this be, epidemics will fucceed each other hereafter, in the manner above delivered, provided nature does not deviate from the order it hath kept for thefe laft twenty-four years.— And, thefe, Sir, are the principal obfervations I have made of the epidemic difeafes of the foregoing years. Mithiefof 9. As to the cure of the rheumati/m, which Se nae you likewife defire to be informed of, I have es frequently regretted, as well as you, that it could: & not be accomplifhed without the lofs of a large quantity of blood by repeated bleeding ; where- by the ftrength is not only impaired for a time, but weak perfons are ufually more difpofed to other difeafes for fome years; when the matter occafioning the rheumati{m afterwards falls upon the lungs, the latent indifpofition in the blood being put into a¢tion, by taking cold, or fome other flight caufe. Thefe reafons induced me to fearch after fome other method of curing this difeafe, than fuch repeated bleeding. And having well confidered, that it {eemed to ot cee