An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern physicians: or a comparison between the practice of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Galen, and Boerhaave, in acute diseases. Intended to shew, what the practice of physick, in such distempers, ought to be / By John Barker.

  • Barker, John, 1708-1748.
Date:
1748
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Credit: An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern physicians: or a comparison between the practice of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Galen, and Boerhaave, in acute diseases. Intended to shew, what the practice of physick, in such distempers, ought to be / By John Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He is more particular in laying down Rules for the Management of a Caufus, or burn¬ ing Fever. In this Diftemper he obferves, that we ought to apply cooling Remedies, both externally, and in Clyfters; that thefe may be injedbed every Day, or every other Day, but that we mujl take Care not to cool too much, fo as to bring on a Rigor -f*. The Time for giving Clyfters was regulated by the Intention which he had in giving them, which was, as we may learn from many Paflages in his Works, to moderate the Fever, and eaje the Pains. Thus, in a Peri¬ pneumony, he orders the Body to be kept open, for the firft four or five Days, to abate the Fever, &c. but fays? that, after that Time, we fhould not ufe them, becaufe any great Evacuation downwards, after the fifth Day, is dangerous, as it fb ops Expedt oration, which is the regular Crifis of this Dif- G 2 eafe. €, * De Affedi. f Ibidem.