Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin.

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
Date:
1728
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Credit: Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Fever and Symptoms were very high* and we have a very fignal Inftance of the like Penetration (12) in Galen. He was called into a Confutation upon a young Gentleman in Rome, who had been five Days ill of a Fe¬ ver * he found the other Phyficians come to a Refolution to bleed him, and agreed with them that Bleeding was abfolutely necefiary, but at the fame time faid, if they would have a little Patience, Nature would do that Bufi- nefs her felf much better: Accordingly, in a very little time and before he left the Room, the Youth was feized with a large Effufion of Blood at the Nofe, which perfectly carried otF the Fever. Every Phyfician without doubt will allow, that nothing could have happened more fortunately for this young Man, than the Fore-knowledge of this Crifis, and that if he had been blooded, the Fever in all Appearance would have been prolonged, fuppofing no worfc Confequencc ! Of fo great moment is it to be well skilled in the Movements of the dif- eafed Humours before we pretend to regulate or dired them. (13) Ramazzini tells us, that an eminent Phyfician who attended Armies in the Field, (12.) Vid. Galen, de Vrznot. (13) Quoad febrium harum curationem, funeftam admo- durn venae fedtionem fibi obfervatarn teftatur, et ab ilia religi* Oi,c abftinuifle. Kamaz de Morb. Artific. p. 299. conftantly