The London practice of physic : wherein the definitions and symptoms of diseases, with the present methods of cure, are clearly laid down : to which are added proper tables, exhibiting the doses of medicines, and the quantity of purgatives, opiates, and mercurials, in the compositions of the London dispensatory; and complete indexes of the diseases and medicines : the whole calculated for the general use of young practitioners.

Date:
1792
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Credit: The London practice of physic : wherein the definitions and symptoms of diseases, with the present methods of cure, are clearly laid down : to which are added proper tables, exhibiting the doses of medicines, and the quantity of purgatives, opiates, and mercurials, in the compositions of the London dispensatory; and complete indexes of the diseases and medicines : the whole calculated for the general use of young practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flammation, no very diftreffing nervous fymp- tom, nor any evident corruption of the fluids ; and where the heat cannot be laid to be either of the truly inflammatory or of the outrefac- tive kind, the oppreflion, naufea, and weak- nefs, are not extreme; and the head, though ufually much pained, remains tolerably clear $ the pulfe, though frequent, is uniform, and without any remarkable hardnefs. But where there is great vafcular flrength, and firmnefs in the conftitution, the blood denfe and copious, replete with the red cruor, mould the continued fever here make the at- tack, the heat and drynefs will be raifed to the higheft degrees; and the grofs particles being forced into vefTels which only fuffer the finer and more fubtile fluids to pafs naturally, by the force of the ftimulus applied to the heart and arteries, will diftend the vefTels, and, dif- tradting the fenfible fibres, produce rednefs, and fluihing of the face and eyes, accompa- nied with violent pain in the head and other parts of the body. This fpecies of fever, from the full, ftrong, hard, and rapid pulfe, and the remarkable excefs of heat which dif- tinguifhes it, is termed the inflammatory fe- ver. By thefe defcriptions we {hall readily B z judge