Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin.

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
Date:
1728
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    16/68 (page 16)
    that have been written on this Branch of Phyftck alone, clearly demonftrate how labo¬ rious a Task it is to become thoroughly ac¬ quainted with them : And if Hippocrates, who knew more of this Science than any Man then, or perhaps fince, living, complains (i 6) that Life is too (hort to admit of Per^ fedion in it, what notable Genius’s muft they be who, without proper Education, Inftrudi- on, or even Reading in the Profeffion, take upon them fo weighty a Charge ? We are now to confider thofe Fevers in which Bleeding is ufeful or dangerous, ac¬ cording as the Difeafe Bands circumftantiated : Su^h are all continued Fevers not putrid, Small-Pox, Meades, Pleurifies, &c. In thefe Bledding is often necefifary, and without it the Patient may run manifeft Hazard of his Life : And yee in the very fame Diftempers, the Circumftanccs either of the Difeafe, the Ikk Perfon, the Seafon of the Year, &c. may make Bleeding not only dangerous, but even pernicious in its Confcquences; and this I fhall endeavour to prove from the concurring Te¬ ll i monies of the mod eminent Phyficians, not ( O (ZpOCYVt;, VJ rgVVJJ fAiUX-pV. 0 -) KXipqq !J -) TTtipOC . • ~ M / .. <. * *.\r , 1 / .. V' / v iryjxAzp*», >5 ai xficris xate/rvi, eti a& ou y$vw iwvrov 7fecpi^tiv rec «*- *VTCC 7TOHOVTCC, Oi?I As* <£ TOV VO(TiO'JTK> KXf TOVf JTflSpsWfltS, XUi TU &*v. Hip. Aphor. fe&. ?. a, r . doubting