The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].

  • Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.
Date:
1740
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Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of Acute Difefus. 4 Danger. And though it be not fo proper, yet it is as true to fay, that thofe Difeafes are to be accounted Acute, . which though with refpect to the Paroxyfms taken together; move flow, yet with refpect to one particular Fit, quickly attain their End. Of this Sort are all Intermitting Fevers: But when the containing Matter of the Difeafe is of that Nature, that it cannot have the Affiftance of a Fever, for the univerfal Separation of it; or when this Kind of Mat- ter is fixed to any Part which is unable to exclude it, €i- ther upon the Account 'of its Confirmation, asit is in the morbifick Matter of a Palfey, that the Nerves are ftuffed with, and in the fuppurated Matter in the Cavity of the Breaft of thofe that have an Empyema; or by the Defect of the natural Heat and Spirits, as when Phlegm falls upon . the Lungs.of thofe that are weakened by Age or a long Cough; or laftly, uponthe Account of a continual Flux: of new Matter, wherewith the vitiated Blood, which is only difpofed to carry it off, does opprefs and overwhelm the Part: I fay, in thefe Cafes the Matter is very flowly, or not atall, concocted; and fo Difeafes that proceed from fuch unconcocted Matter are, and are called Chronical. Therefore, from thefe two Principles, that are contrary one tothe other, concerning which we have now treated, fome: acute and fome chronical Difeafes arife. » Asto the Acute Difeafes which I intend to treat of now; 'fome proceed from a fecret and inexplicable Alteration of the Air, infecting Men's Bodies ; nor do they at all depend ' on a peculiar Crafis of the Biood and Humours, any other- | wife than the occult Influence of the Air has imprinted the: fame upon them. ‘They continue as long as this fecret. Conftitution of the Air, and no longer; neither do they come at any other Time: Thefe are called Epidemicks. Other acute Difeafes arife from this or that particular Ir- regularity of particular Bodies; which becaufe | they are not « produced by a general Caufe, do not thereforeinvade many at once: Befides, this Sort comes every Year, and at any Time of the Year, excepting thofe we fhall mention, when * wecome to fpeak particularly of this Kind. - Thefe I call Intercurrent or Sporadick, becaufe they happen at any Time, when Epidemicks rage.. I begin with pis and firft of all propofe a géneral Hiftory of dinenn Ba... | G H Ad