The symptoms, nature, causes, and cure of the febricula, or little fever: commonly called the nervous or hysteric fever: the fever on the spirits: vapours, hypo, or spleen / By Sir Richard Manningham.

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
Date:
1750
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Credit: The symptoms, nature, causes, and cure of the febricula, or little fever: commonly called the nervous or hysteric fever: the fever on the spirits: vapours, hypo, or spleen / By Sir Richard Manningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other cafual Symptoms, becaufe more mamfejl and confpicuous. Hippocrates gives us an Infiance of this Kind, which at once demon- Urates the Obfcurity of this Diftemper, and the Juftnefs of our Method of Cure. The Cafe was this ? <c About «c the Autumnal Equinox, fays Hippo- €C crates, the Son of Bratalaus €C was taken ill of a Dyfentery, with “ a Fever: Neither the fick Perfon, <c nor any about him, for the firft fix «e Days, obferved this little Fever, it « was fo low and obfcure; yet there was a great Pulfation of the Tem- tc pies, or temporal Arteries, and the « Tongue was white, and his Drought «* was moderate, and he without Sleep. “ Though the Cafe continued above ?c forty Days, yet his Heat and his « Tongue, and his Thirft, perfevered ^ in the mentioned State, and he did <£ not