A fourth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular intermitting fevers / by George Fordyce.

Date:
1802
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Credit: A fourth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular intermitting fevers / by George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the lymph to be accumulated in the cavities. Suppofing the difeafe be left entirely to itfelf, and Ihould terminate by a more fevere exacerbation’s producing a perfedl: criiis, or by the difeafe wearing itfelf out, and gradually fubfiding, this dropfy is very rarely fatal. After the difeafe is gone off, if the flrength be reftored, the lymph is abforbed, and the patient re-> gains his former health. I If the fever fhould go on, the tumour rifes higher, occupies firfl the integuments of the abdomen, and the cellular mem- brane among the mufcles of the loins; after- ward afcites is joined with it, the func- tions of the inteftines are hurt, and the patient finks, the external appearances of the dropfy becoming gradually nearer phlegmaiia than anafarca. When the bark of the cinchona, or any other remedies having limilar effedls are exhibited, and prevent a return of the