A third dissertation on fever. : Part II. Containing an inquiry into the effects of the remedies, which have been employed with a view to carry off a regular continued fever, without leaving it to pursue its ordinary course / By George Fordyce, M.D. F.R.S.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A third dissertation on fever. : Part II. Containing an inquiry into the effects of the remedies, which have been employed with a view to carry off a regular continued fever, without leaving it to pursue its ordinary course / By George Fordyce, M.D. F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difcriminately, in any part of the body, neither increafes, diminiflies, nor fhortens a regular continued fever. The next en- quiry is, whether any mifchief may arife in a regular continued fever from taking away a quantity of blood. The author has already fhewn that a pa- tient afflicted with regular continued fever cannot digeft his ordinary quantity of food; therefore the fluids which are conftantly waiting cannot be recruited, and that the fyftem muft be weakened. That in a regular continued fever there are conftant exertions which like wife debili- tate. That the reft which takes place in fleep is neceiTary to reftore the living power, but fleep being prevented in fever it is not re- cruited. That in confequence of all thefe caufes of weaknefs, the patient is actually fo de- bilitated as to be deftroyed in many in- ftances.