The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of ... but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].

  • Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689
Date:
1734
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    may be able to perform her own Work; for certainly in weak Bodies, unlefs the Fermentation be kept up by the help of Cordials anda ftrengthning Diet, as with Worm: wood-Wine, and the like, the Patient will be weakened, and troubled with uncertain and fruitlefs Fits, and the Difeafe will continue long: fo that Nature being’ very —janguid, and feized with a grievous Fit, cannot reach the time of Ebullition, and he dies in the cold Fit. And this frequently happens to old Men, that have been weakned by a long Courfe of Catharticks, and fometimes they die in the fhaking of the firft Fits; whereas they might have been kept up, for fome time at leaft, by fome ftrong Cor- dial. : When the Blood has paffed the time that is requifite for perfecting its Defpumation, antient. Patients muft at that time remove to another Air very different, or which js better, into fome warmer Country; or at leaft fhould leave the Place where they were firft feized with this Dif eafe. It is indeed ftrange how much the Change of Air prevails for the total Extirpation of this Difeafe: but the Change of Air before this time is not proper; for tho any one fhould remove into a hot and foutherly Country, yet it is neceflary that the Blood fettled in this fickly Difpofi- tion fhould finifh its Depuration : and it will be in yain to expect any Benefit from an unufual and new Air, till the Motion of the Blood, proceeding and growing perfect, is capable of recovering Health. A confiderable Alteration of the Airis therefore then to be appointed, when the Sick is freed from the Fit: For. inftance, in a Quartan, which firft began in Autumn, the Air muft not be chang’d till the beginning of February; but if the Patient will not or cannot conveniently remove, he ought at this: time to ufe fome ftrong Medicine, fo powerful, as may be able at once to promote the languid Depuration, and, if poffible, to perfect ir, . ' Take of the Elefuary of the Egg, or of Venice-Treacle, one Dram and half’, diffolve it in two Ounces of Aqua- Ceelettis, or of common Aqua-Vite 3 give it two Hours before the: Fit. | - Thave ufed this with good Succefs at the Declination of fuch Difeafes; but hot things given fooner have either ' ) E doubled