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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    the flrength fliould be exhaufted in proportion to the number of flools! and yet how much mifchief have we found to arife from checking the loofenefs! More fever, a quicker pulfe, greater depreffion, more delirium, and a longer difeafe. Who, that has been in an extenfive practice, is ignorant how many days mull be run through for corre&ing and letting loofe the putrid materials; and how many llcolsmuk be procured, by antifepticcorreflors and purging medicines, in fevers of twenty or thirty days duration (frequently above a hundred) to difcharge from the habit what quickened the pulfe to a dangerous velocity, and kept the body in a Hate of great debility, the limbs in tremors, and the brain in an unceafing reverie, till the body, like another falamander, riles with frefh yigour out of that very fire which threatened to defrroy it ? SECTION V. BY FEBRIFUGE MEDICINES IN GENERAL* IT does not appear, that the oldefl of the Greek phyficians had adopted any ideas like ours, of Medicines which could put fevers to flight, and which we term Febrifuge. Their attention to the operations of Nature, and her modes of relieving herfelf, induced them rather to copy her, than prefume to fhorten the procefs, as modern phyfi¬ cians undertake to do: but they were incomparable jucges