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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    ( *1 ) there being only a little towards the middle or back part of it• the pulfe is not uncom¬ monly left with a degree of frequency be- yond the natural date; the fkin, after the fweating is over, feels dry and uneafy. Sometimes other fymptoms of the firft ftage remain, even when there is a regular crifis. There are all the varieties in the beginning of the difeafe between the crifis, being not compleated before the next paroxyfm takes place, and there being only fome degree of languor and pain in the fmall of the back. When there is a regular tertian, in which feveral fymptoms of the firft ftage remain, after the crifis at the beginning of the difeafe; as it goes on, the intermiflions. become gra¬ dually more and more perfedt; or rather the crifis becomes more and more per fedh This happens, with confiderable variety. When in the firft crifis of the difeafe there is only languor left and a pain in the fmall of the back, frequently the next crifis is by no means fo perfedt, but head- ach, foulnefs of the tongue, and frequency of the pulfe remain after it; even the next crifis