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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    mediately on. the going off of the pa- roxyrni. An hour before the attack of a frefli paroxyfm is expedled, we are’to exhibit ipecacuanha or antimony, along with Simulants and opium. We are then to lay the patient in bed, and give him warm watery fluids to drink along with mucilaginous iubftaiices in ImaLl quantities frequently, fo as to endeavour to produce iweating. By thele means the paroxyfm is often prevented from taking place. This practice has already been deicribed more fully. It is better to attempt to carry off the difeafe in the hrft place, by thefe means, than to employ the bark of the cinchona; for this bark is apt to incr'eafe tHe inflam- matory affedtion of the thorax. Thefe re- medies however do not counteradt the acceffion, and prevent it from taking place : and if the inharamatory fymptoms of the thorax have been in a great mea- fure fubdued, by the remedies which have been jufl mentioned, then the cinchona is to be employed during the iiitermiffions,as has