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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    ( *55 ) This fubjeft will be more amply treated of in the differtation on the management of re¬ gular continued fever. t Purgatives have often been employed in regular tertians, with a view to carry off certain humgurs fuppofed to occafion the difeafe. But it has been found on the other hand that purgatives have re-produced the difeafe, after it has been carried off by other remedies, and that excepting in fo far as they prevent coftivenefs, and the ufe of ftimulating ones, to aflift the acffion of fudorific remedies, they tend to render the difeafe longer in its paroxyfms and the crifes lefs per fed:. . i ' « * • • ■' Evacuation, either by bleeding or purging, is hurtful, in fo far as it weakens the pa¬ tient, and renders him lefs able to bear the repetitions of the paroxyfms, and on this account are improper, although not fo highly prejudicial as in continued fever, for in the intermiffions there is time for food to be di- gefted, fo as to replenifh the blood veffels. In