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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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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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    Writers in Phyfick tacitly own this. Dr, Tit- cairne, EL Med. p. 88. fpeaking of the Re¬ medies againft Fevers, and particularly Bleed¬ ing, and in effefel owning the Infufficiency and Uncertainty of them, If ever it happen, faith he, that any one knows a Medicine that will fpeedily take off the Rarefcence of the Blood, and leffen its Motion, without any dangerous Symptom following, then Blooding will be needlefs. Indeed he fays juft after, That Su¬ dor i ticks are not eafily and too foon to be gi¬ ven, ’till the Signs of Concoftion appear in the Urine ; becaufe they fo much increafe the Motion and Rarefcence of the Blood, that it will not foon be got off. And the fame Cau¬ tion is given by many other Phyficians. But I find they had no Notion of any but hot Su- dorificks ; and of them the Obfervation is very true: And I am afraid they have kill’d more than they have cured in Fevers, fince the Ara¬ bian Phyficians brought them in, for there is little in Galen and Hippocrates about them. Dr. Sydenham complains of the Boldnefs and Indifcretion of Nurfes, and fome Phyficians, in giving fo many hot Cordials in all Sort of Fevers, in forty Places of his Works; and im¬ putes the moft dangerous Symptoms in all Sorts of Fevers, to the too common Ufe of them. Dr. Friend, in Hipp. de Morbt Vulg. fays, They are not yet fufficiently difcarded ; and that only the more moderate Sudorificks aiid Cordials fhould be ufed. Dr. Meadt cap. uit. 'De