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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    / four hours : Secondly, in quartans to feventy-two hours. Quotidians may return at the end of twenty-two hours, or from that to twen- ' ty-lix hours; although the return is more confined than in tertians, feldom exceed- iilg the bounds of between twenty-three and twenty-five hours. In like manner, the return of quartans does not always^ take place exactly at the end of feventy-two hours, but from fe- venty to feventy-four hours. There is alfo a greater latitude than in tertians,' they fometimes returning from fixty-nine to feventy-fix hours. In both thefe cafes, the paroxyfm may return conllantly fooner than twenty-four or feventy-two hours: for example, con- flantly two hours fooner. Thefe are called anticipating quotidians and quartans. In thefe the return being two hours fooner in every paroxyfm, the beginning of the • B 2 paroxyfQi