A dissertation on Dr. James's fever powder / [Malcolm Flemyng].

  • Flemyng, Malcolm, -1764
Date:
1760
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Credit: A dissertation on Dr. James's fever powder / [Malcolm Flemyng]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ^5 ) The author is filent concerning its efFe&s, or ufe in heftic fevers ; for which he merits praife., For in this kind, the blood and jui¬ ces derived from it, are too thin, and too much diliblved, being not enough adted up¬ on by the energy of life in the vifcera, vvbich is here impaired ; or haunted by a tabid or purulent difpofition 5 and therefore medicines^ compofed of antimony and mercury, are to be here dreaded and avoided like poifons. For their effedts tend to diilolve and thin the humors ilill more, which are already tod thin, and too much diflblved ; and weaken farther the folids, which are already too weak ; and to excufe colloquative fweats and diarrhaea, which the difeafe itfelf is too apt to bring on. There remains then only the clafs of con¬ tinued fevers, in which the Fever Powder can be remarkably ufeful; which, that our dodlnne may be the more diftindl, we dial! fubdivide into different ranks. The firft comprehends thofe, in which, at the approach of the fever, the body and its juices were pure 3 the fault lying princi¬ pally m their too great motion 3 and its im- h' mediate