A second dissertation on fever : containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
1802
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Credit: A second dissertation on fever : containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECOND DISSERTATION, &c. r i AHE hiftory of a fever confirming of one paroxyfm, or fimple fever, has been given in the DifTertation already pub- lifhed. The author, in purfuance of his plan, means next to treat of that cafe of fever recurring by paroxyfms, in which each paroxyfm goes through its three ftages in the fpace of lefs than twenty hours, and returns nearly at the end of forty-eight hours from the beginning of the former pa- roxyfm ; and where nothing happens ex- cepting thofe appearances, which are effen- tial to the fever. A fever of this' kind is called a regular tertian. If a perfon has never been before affected with an intermitting fever, and a paroxyfm B of