Volume 1

A treatise on febrile diseases. Including intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers, inflammations, hemorrhages, and the profluvia ... / by A. Philip Wilson.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847
Date:
1799-1804
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Credit: A treatise on febrile diseases. Including intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers, inflammations, hemorrhages, and the profluvia ... / by A. Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «over if it is suffered to take its course.” This observation is just if it be confined to those feversin which the symptoms peculiar to synocha prevail ; but in typhus the con- tinued form of the disease is no objection : to the exhibition of the bark. When speaking of the treatment in agues it was sbewn, from the observations of dif- ferent practitioners, that, although where- ever any degree of the inflammatory dia- thesis prevails the bark is only to be exhi- bited in the absence of fever, and wherever this diathesis is considerable it is to be de- layed altogether, till the inflammatory state is removed by proper remedies; yet in all cases Where the debility is considerable the shortness and incompleteness of the re-— ' missions only indicate the necessity of using the bark more freely, and that after the fever in such cases has assumed the con- tinued form, the bark is still to be exhi-. bited in smaller doses. It is true indeed, that where there are no remissions we do not expect the bark to stop fs the