Medical practice in curing fevers: correspondent to Rational methods, &c. and to those curative indications, which arise from the febrile symptoms of the patient : and exemplified in many cases of the most usual fevers, with the medicines by which they were cured / by Theophilus Lobb.

  • Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763
Date:
1735
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Credit: Medical practice in curing fevers: correspondent to Rational methods, &c. and to those curative indications, which arise from the febrile symptoms of the patient : and exemplified in many cases of the most usual fevers, with the medicines by which they were cured / by Theophilus Lobb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon j and fo, when there is a Difcharge, of the like Humours from the Glandule lachrymales, and Glands of the Nofe s and likewife when the Excretion from the in- teftinal Glands is augmented to the Produc¬ tion of a 'Diarrhoea ; and alfo when the Quantity of Urine is increafed beyond its ufual Meafure. $ 160. Catarrhous Diseases moft com¬ monly are Effe&s of fome Diminution of the Excretion by infetifible ‘Perfpiration. For when the perfpiratory Duds are in fuch a Meafure obftruded, as that the perfpirable Matter (which could not pafs off in its ufual Way) is fufficient, in Quantity, fenftbly to augment fome other Excretion, it often happens that fome other Excretion is fen- jfibly augmented j and If this is not the Cafe, a Fever of one Kind or other will be the Confequence of fuch a Diminution : And it is eafy to apprehend how an Abatement of the Difcharges by infenfible Perfpiration,' fhould occafion an Increafe of other Evacu¬ ations. $ 161. Here I defire it may be remem- bred, that the moft ufual Caufes of a Dimi¬ nution of Excretion thro' the perfpiratory K Duds,