A fifth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular continued fevers ... / by George Fordyce ; edited by William Charles Wells.

Date:: 1803

Credit: A fifth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular continued fevers ... / by George Fordyce ; edited by William Charles Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$quantity of blood, it becomes absolutely necessary that the practitioner should strictly weigh the following argument. j There are three dangers: One, lest the increased action of the heart and ar- teries should throw forward such a quan- tity of blood upon the brain, as to induce a fatal delirium : a second, lest the same action should so hurt the brain as to make it unable to bear that mischief which in- duces delirium, such as has been already described in the Treatise on Regular Con- tinued Fever; lastly, lest the tension, pro- duced by the blood being thrown by the strong action of the heart and arteries into the small vessels throughout the sys- tem, should be suddenly taken off, and the patient should sink.—These reasons on the 'one hand induce a necessity of remo- ving the general inflammation as quickly as possible, by making a large evacuation by opening a blood vessel, O.i the other hand, supposing that, after having made large evacuations by opening a blood vessel, the practitioner should not be able to carry off the disease by the means \ - , f$