. An essay on fevers : to which is now added, a dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat. e fcratched himfelf continual-ly, and tore his Skin with his Nails in a veryfhocking Manner ; his Urine was always ex-eeflivcly high coloured, turbid, and very foe-tid.—He was at laft, with great Difficulty^perfuaded to leave this pernicious Cuftom, buthe had fo effedually ruined his Conftitution,that, though he rubbed on in a very miferableManner for feveral Months, he died tabid, andin the higheft Degree of a Marafmus ;—and I5 aj^ Ulcerous Sore-Throaty 309 am perfuaded, he would have died muc
. An essay on fevers : to which is now added, a dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat. e fcratched himfelf continual-ly, and tore his Skin with his Nails in a veryfhocking Manner ; his Urine was always ex-eeflivcly high coloured, turbid, and very foe-tid.—He was at laft, with great Difficulty^perfuaded to leave this pernicious Cuftom, buthe had fo effedually ruined his Conftitution,that, though he rubbed on in a very miferableManner for feveral Months, he died tabid, andin the higheft Degree of a Marafmus ;—and I5 aj^ Ulcerous Sore-Throaty 309 am perfuaded, he would have died much foon-er, had he not conflantly drank very freely ofthe mod fine and generous Wines, and dailyufed large Quantities of AfTes-milk, and anti-fcorbutic Juices well acidulated with Juice ofSeville-oranges, Lemons, i^c. But, after all, I am fo far from thinkingthe volatile Alcaly-falis iliould be flruck out ofthe Materia Medica^ and condemning their Ufein all Cafes, that I am very certain they maybe given with great Advantage in very many,*—But, in Truth, I ftill except thofe X3 INDEX [ 3o 3 INDEX I, Of Subjects, A A- BSCESS. %ttBoih. AGIDS, vegetable and mineral, proper in putrid Fevers Page 117 -■ — in the petechial Small-pox — 151, 161 not in the lymphatic Small-pox — 151 good in the Sea-fcurvy ■ 260vegetable, are more faponaceous and ab- fterfive than mineral ■— ■ 159 ACRIMONY may be complicated with inflammatory Len- tor ~ 57, ——— —— Inftanceofit ■. 55 —-————\—- with too loofe a Crafis of the Blood 57 ■ Inilance of it ■ 62 ■ ^ another ■ 68 ■ alcalefcent, tends to diflblve the Blood 54 ■ putrid, its Generation *—-— 54, 55 _— in the Scurvy, Signs of it — 266 AGUES. See Fe^uers, i?itermitting. AIR, one Kind promotes, another petards the Spreading of the Small-pox 144 — cold and dry, requires one Method, warm and moilt another —— ihid, ——- free and temperate in Peripneumonies
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