Observations respecting the pulse : intended to point out with greater certainty, the indications which it signifies, especially in feverish complaints / by William Falconer.

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824.
Date:
1796
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Credit: Observations respecting the pulse : intended to point out with greater certainty, the indications which it signifies, especially in feverish complaints / by William Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Irregular, that no corredl inferences could be deduced from them, I have added at the end of the calculations above referred to, a fhort table of the proportion between the evening and the morning pulfe, at difFerertt de- grees of its acceleration, beginning with the one that is fuppofed to mark the lowelt degree of fever, and terminating with that which is nearly as quick as is confident with life, or at lead with hopes of recovery. This table is founded on one given by Dr. Bryan Robinfon, and inferted in the former part of this work, and which marks the rate of the natural pulfe at different times of the day. T hus at VIII. in the morning the mean pulfe of the two indances he has produced, was 65.5. and at VIII. in the evening 76,5. It feerfis h-ghly probable and agreeable to the regularity of nature, that the fame proportions fhould be obferved when the pulfe is regularly and permanently accelerated, which before took place in the natural pulfe, A pulfe which at VIII in the morning beats 82 times in a minute, fhould, if no alteration takes place in the fyftem, beat 96 times, (or a fra£fion lefs) at VIII. in the evening ; for as 65.5 is to 76.5, fo is 82 to 95.771. A due attention to this cir- cumftance may I think enable us to explain feveral of the fymptoms which occur in fevers, and to draw from thence fome important conclufions. livery pravifitioner in medicine mulf have remarked, that, in continued fevers, there'is a conffant and regular acceleration of the pulfe, and aggravation of the