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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    prevent that Thicknefs of them, and thofe Obftrudtions and that Acrimony, which naturally follow the Excefs of this Evacua¬ tion. § 7S' That Urine, which in Fevers is kfs in Quantity, (in Proportion to the Quan¬ tity of Liquids drank) than in Time of Health, (hews either i. That the renal ex¬ cretory Tubuli are obftrufted by vifcid Hu¬ mours 5 or 2. That they are under a fpaf- modic Contradion 5 or 3. That the Dif- charge by infenfible ‘Perfpiration is pro¬ portionally increafed beyond its natural Standard ; or 4. That the Patient has had Evacuations by Sweating, or Spitting 5 for this Symptom commonly refults from one, or other of thefe Caufts. If it refults from the firfi Caufe aflign’d, it forefhews, that there will be too great an Increafe of the Quantity of Fluids in the Body, for Want of this Evacuation, and that the Effe&s naturally confequent to fuch an Increafe of the Fluids are to be feared. In this Cafe the Ufe of Diuretic s> mixed with fuch Dijfolvents as may deftroy the Vifi- cidity of the Hnmours, is indicated. If it be occafioned by the fecond Caufe, it may often be known to be fo, by fome vifible