Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot].

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1772
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    [ 9 6 ] tion, veneie£lion would be of fervice to check the hemorrhage. But there is this danger attending venefeclion, left the fpontane- ous hemorrhage fhould ceafe returning, and venefeclion being deferred a little too long, fome fatal difeafe fhould enfue. For fo long as the cuftomary propenfity to an hemor¬ rhage remains, nature looks to her own preservation and expels the hurtful plethora. But when the cure of the plethora is trailed to art, there is always danger, left through the fault of the patient or phyiician, fome miftake fhould be committed, and deluded by the falfe hope of health, the imminent danger be too much defpifed. I have known thofe, who, though fubjedt to exceftive haemor¬ rhages, have, notwithftanding, attained an hap¬ py old age; on the contrary, many plethoric perfons, whole health was trufted to venefec- tion, who lived but a very fhort time, and died embrued in their own blood. It is there¬ fore fafer to abftain from bleeding, unlefs fome Severe difeafe indicates an abfolute neceffity, in thofe habits which are accuf- tomed to be relieved of a plethora, by fpon- taneous evacuations. But venefedtion is pro-