Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782.
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    urine, petechial fpots, the bad effects of large bleeding, and little advantage of blifters; laftly, the difagreement with cooling me¬ dicines, excepting in the beginning; and on the other hand, the agreement with wine volatiles and other cordials during the greated: part of the difeafe, ' Having now defcribed the mod: didinguifh- ing marks of this fever, it will be proper to add, that there are certain low degrees of the fame malady which are hardly to be charac¬ terized at all; and which can only be dif- cover(ed in full hofpitals by obferving men languifli 5 tho’ the nature of the didemper, for which they came in, Should feem to ad¬ mit of a fpeedier cure. • In thefe cafes the only marks are little headachs, a whitifh tongue, want of appetite, and other incon- fiderable feverifh fymptoms. ^ i • * SECTION III. Prognostics. MEN who have been weakened by other didempers, or by cures, as thofe who have undergone a Talivation, are much more