A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1777
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Credit: A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with mod advantage, and in what quantity ac¬ cording to the urgency of the fymptoms, and alfo with what caution, and at wrhat intervals. Celfus, who flourifhed in the days of Augufcus andTiberius, gave the following diredion about blood-letting: <c You mud attend to the colour and quality of “ the blood while it is flowing; for if it be thick pc and black, it is vitiated, and flows off with ad- cc vantage; but if it be red and bright, it is in a cc healthy date, the lofs of it is hurtful, and it diould cc be indantly dopped.” The rule is too general; but it probably led mankind afterwards to a more particular enquiry into this fubjed. In latter ages many difputes have arifen among phyficians about the good and bad edeeds of blood¬ letting. Among the Arabians, Rhazes, who lived in the tenth century, let blood in the fmall-pox and mealies: but many of that fchool were fo much afraid of it, that they were called lAipotpofioi, Avicenna difapproved of bleeding in bilious fevers, quia bilem refrsenabat fanguis. Baptifta Suzius, in 1628, wrote againd the prejudices of the Arabian fchool, but was himfelf as much, if not more to blame, for praifing venae- fedion in all fevers continued and putrid, as wTell as in plethora and inflammation, when the difeafe was crude, and before codion. Nicholaus Mafia, about the iTllCldi eof the fixteenth century, wrote a book on the efreds of blood-