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
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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.

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    that (t i) cooling the Blood too much, hinders both from fwelling ; which is the mod dange¬ rous State of the whole Difeafc. An eminent Fhyficianin this Town, very candidly owned to me, that, upon dire&ing a moderate Quanti¬ ty of Blood to be taken from a young Perfon, in the Beginning of this Diftemper, he mani- fcftly perceived his Strength begin to fail, the Pox made their Way through the Skin and were kept up, with the greateft Difficulty ; and that through the whole Courfe of the Diftem¬ per, the Patient's Life was every Day in Dan¬ ger from fome irregular Symptom j which he attributed intirely to the Lofs of Blood in the Beginning. But after all that hath been Paid, it muft be confefted, that Dr. Sydenham inhisfirft Eflays on this Subject, recommends Bleeding fo fre¬ quently, and fo loofely, in many Places, that an unwary Reader might be eafiiy led into an Opinion, that one could fcarce err in Bleeding at ail Adventures 5 but yet it is very plain, that, as he advanced more in Years and Expe¬ rience, he grew more fufpicious of this Reme¬ dy : For in the anomalous and malignant Kind, ('ll) Inde vero regimen jufto frigidius, faciei manuumque ihtumefcentise, quae hie apprime neceffaria eft, oflicere, et puftulas flacciciiores reddere. Sydenb, $>. zoo.