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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    * * cefary gney as that we cannot do without it. I have heard it /aid, that the Bark is the only Remedy againfi Intermittents, and that if it does not cure, nothing can : But I know the contrary by large Expe¬ rience $ and the Fads I have produced clearly prove it; and prove, that the fe¬ deral Species of this Tribe may be cured in a port Time without it: And this I have obfervedy that they who have reco¬ ver'd without the Barky do not fo often fuffer a Relapfey as thofe who are cured by it. Let me add\ that from the Hifto- ries I have produced\ it appears, that Per- fons have no Reafon to dejpair of a Reco- very, the’ they have taken the Bark in vain* As for Quotidian Intermittents, the Inter mijfions are often fo port, as to allow no fair Opportunity of ufmg that celebrated Drug; and I have known very fad Effects to follow upon the giving ity when the Intermifiion has not been long enough for it. There are likewife feme Constitutions of Body, with which th$ Bark will not agree \ and for fucb it pould not be advijed.