A fourth dissertation on fever containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in, irregular intermitting fevers / [George Fordyce].

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
1802
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Credit: A fourth dissertation on fever containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in, irregular intermitting fevers / [George Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the crifis. The only differences in the hiffory or manner of treatment, from what has been already laid down in treating on tertian fevers, are what follow, provided the difeafe remains a quotidian or quar- tan during the whole of its courfe. A quotidian has a fhorter courfe if left to itfelf, than a tertian—that is, if a quotidian be left entirely to itfelf, the in- termiffions become more perfedf in from ten to fourteen days, when they become generally complete. If the difeafe ■ be perfedfly regular, they continue complete from three to four weeks; afterward the attacks become lefs violent, and the dif- eafe gradually goes off, fo as entirely to leave the patient in about ten weeks. Whereas a regular tertian, going through its natural courfe, feldom leaves the pa- tient in lefs than fourteen weeks. On the other hand in a quartan, if the paroxvfms from the beginning return from the end of feventy to feventy-four hours, the intermiffions feldom become B 4 complete