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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    When inflammatory fymptoms about the thorax continue during the intermiffion, iiich as confiderable difficulty of refpiration, violent cough, pain in the fide, with hard- nefs of the pulfe, haemoptoe is apt to be produced by them. When the intermiffions become a^ain im~ per fed: towards the end of an intermittent, after having been perfed or nearly fo, this remedy may in feveral inftances be effica- cioufly employed. A fudorific remedy is rarely efficacious when it does not produce fweating at the time the paroxyfm fhoukl have recurred, fometimes however it does even in this cafe prevent it. This fhows that it is not merely fweating that prevents the paroxyfm from returning, but that the fweating is perhaps only a collateral effed of the medi¬ cine, and a fign of its ading thoroughly and efficacioufly. On the other hand, although fweating fhpuld be produced, it fometimes happens % that