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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    220 ON THE MALIGNANT [App. aftringents were adminiftered affiduoufly, with fu it able nouriihment, and veficatories applied fuc- ceffively to the neck, the back/ and arms, but without effect. There is not in this difeafe a more favourable » fymptom than a difpolition to fweat,, with a foft and moift Akin : nothing feems to fhorten it fo much, to take off the delirium fooner, or to promote fo happily a good fediment in the water. Our Firft and our Seventh Formula have the beft effedts in this way. How feldom does Peruvian bark perform any of thefe good offices for the patient! I never gave volatiles, except Mindererus’s fpirit, fait of amber, or the anodyne liquor of F. Hoffman, which are all antifeptic; becaufe I i know that volatiles only difpofe the juices to be more putrid, or quicken the putrid procefs where it has already taken place too furely. Where cordials are wanted, or indicated, we can be at no lofs while currant jelly, orange and lemon, or wines diluted into what is called Biffiop or Negus, or yet pure wine or old cyder, can be had. I am not acquainted wdth any better cordial draught than our Seventh or Eighth Formula. I never did, nor ever do expedt to fee the ftrength fhpported, or the difeafe alle¬ viated, by any poffible preparation of animal fubffances. After fweating has begun, I believe '•wine will never hurt, if given with moderation, either