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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    1. Quartans* 2. Tertians, 3. Quotidians. 4. Anomalous. 5 168, 1. Quartans. Thefe I {hall confider in the firft Place, as being mod re¬ mote from continual Fevers. § 169. A Quartan, is that Fever which comes twice in every four Days, reckoning a Fever Day for the firft of any four, and has an Intermiflion of two Days between the febrile Paroxyfms. Sometimes there happen three Fits of the Fever within the Space of four Days, and but one Day's In¬ termiflion 5 and then it is called a double Quartan. $ 170. Here I muft obferve, that the ge¬ neral Caufe of all Intermitting Fevers feems to be vifcid Humours in the Blood, which, while they continue circulating with it, do aflimilate divers Particles of it into their own Quality ; and when the Aflimilation comes to a certain Degree, it produces a fe¬ brile Fit. § 171.1 have mentioned, in my Treatife of the Small-Pox, Part 1. § 499. as a Reafon,why the febrile Paro?yfm, in fomc Intermittents, return • <4