A dissertation on simple fever, or, On fever consisting on paroxysm only / by George Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: A dissertation on simple fever, or, On fever consisting on paroxysm only / by George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [ 2*8 1 thecrifis. But if hardnefsof the pulfe, in- dependant of obftruction, mould take place, it often converts the difeafe into a compound fever. With thefe fymptom?, as far as they are compatible with them, all the appearances which take place in the firft flageof fever con- tinue. Some, however,are incompatible; the pulfe cannot be full and ftrong, and fmall at the fame time, for inftance. Other wife the pain in the forehead, depreffion of ftrength, foulnefs of the tongue, and contra&ion of the fecretory organs, &c. all continue. Fevers generally differ from one another in the duration of the hot fit. A fever which has been called an ephemera, as laft- ing a day and a night, although defcribed by Greek phyficians as attended with as violent fymptoms as any fever, yet by mo- dern practitioners a difeafe under this name has generally been attributed to excefs. Such as drinking too large quantities of wine ; or the application of fome other fuch ftimulus, whichoccafionsa frequency of pulfe and heat, for a certain length of time, this r affe&ion