Volume 1

A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by Joseph Townsend ...

Date:
1795-1796
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Credit: A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by Joseph Townsend ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Let the ftudent, having traced a difeafe, for in- ftance, to the Clafs Pyrexia, fuppofe, that with the frequency of pulfe and increafe of heat, after cold Ihiverings, he meets with lofs of appetite and diminution of ffcrength, not attended by an erup- tion on the Ikin; in this cafe he would refer the dif- eafe to the Order Febres. Of the Order Febres we have two genera. Si. Febris Continua. 2. Febris bit emit tens. i. Febris Continua. Continued Fever.—No intermiffion, yet fubjeft to exacerbations twice in one day. 2. Febris Intermittens. Ague. Intermittent Fever.—Cold, hot, and fweat- ing ftages in fucceflion, attending each paroxyfm, and followed by an intermiffion. Quotidians ufually come on in the morning, at an interval of about twenty-four hours. Fertians at noon, at an interval of about forty- eight hours. Quartans in the afternoon, with an interval of about feventy-two hours. Although ftridlly Ipeaking we have only two ge- nera of the Order Febres, I fhall here venture, with moft nofologifts, to introduce a third; confefling at the fame time, that lofs of appetite, a charafleriftic fymptom of the Order, is not elfential to this Genus. B 2 3. Febris