A second dissertation on fever, containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent / By George Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A second dissertation on fever, containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent / By George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    practice to exhibit opium to prevent this effedL The opium ought to be employed fo as to adt on the inteftines conftantly and with efficacy, a third part of a grain, or its equivalent, in any of its preparations ffiould be given, and repeated at the end of every iixth hour; it may be mixed with the dofe of bark which falls in with that When on the other hand the periftaltic motion of the inteftines is prevented from going on, the natural evacuations ought to be produced by rhubarb, or fome other gentle laxative, as purgatives ought by no means to be exhibited fo as to make large evacuations. Another means of preventing the returns of the paroxyfms, is by producing a pro- fufe fweat at the time that the paroxyfm fhould take place. A variety of modes of producing this effetft have been attempted. The moil efficacious means is to exhibit a fpice of fome