A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter.

  • Butter, William, 1726-1805.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patient may be allowed to eat, at times, fome dry bread by itfelf, and not in his liquids: but the fame method mu ft, in other refpeds, be continued till the fever Is quite gone; or, at leaft, every morbid fymptom, except the frequency of the pulfe. He may then have his clothes on, and return, by degrees, to his ufual diet and way of life : but fo as not to have his free liberty, as to eating, drinking, and exercife, till he has recovered his full flefh and ftrength. ,.0 I 14 j '£ Thus have we recommended a variety of helps for taking off febrile irritation, fuch as darknefs, coolnefs, reft, filence, diluents, emollients, and laxatives. This pradice, however, is merely artificial, and cannot be founded in nature, as it V employs too many means for anfwering one intention. Thefe means, while they difcover the defed of our art, at the fame time point out the remedy: for they are all, properly confidered, but lame fubfti- E lutes