Volume 1

Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke.

  • Hancocke, John, -1728
Date:
1723]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Blood, He does not tell us what it is, whether the Vifcidity, or (as fome fuppofe the Cafe to be in malignant Fevers) the Grumofi- ty of the Blood. Nor does lie tell us plainly whence he thinks it comes, only in one Place he feems to hint, that he thinks it conies front the Bile, This Lentor, be it what it will, though it in fome Meafure flicks to the Sides of the Canals, yet moves by a flow Motion, and when it comes to the Capillary Arteries,' makes the Paroxyfm in intermitting Fevers, and according to its more or lefs Fluidity, is more or lefs Time before it returns attain to the Capillary Arteries, to caufe another Pa¬ roxyfm, while the more Fluxil Part of the Blood in the Canals makes many Circulations. This is a very dark Account, and has little of Mechanifm in it, but what depends on thd known Circulation of the Blood, as indeed every Account I have yet feen, of the regu¬ lar Return of the Fits in intermitting Fevers^ is to me very dark. Bellini indeed gives the lafgeft Account to be found perhaps any where, of the Ante¬ cedents, Concomitants, and Confequents of Fevers j but with fo little Diftinfhon, that there is no knowing this or that particular Sort of Fevers from them. And every one can tell in general by the Heat and Motion of the Blood, when they are in a Fever. I do not blame him for this, for I cannot find that any Authors fix upon any Pathognomick B Signs’