Volume 5

The philosophy of medicine, or, Medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal oeconomy and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine / by a friend to improvements.

Date:
1799-1800
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Credit: The philosophy of medicine, or, Medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal oeconomy and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine / by a friend to improvements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    oilier iiioiiiis vNCie continued. The window of Ills room was now kept fluit. 25th. All the fymptoms of })utrefcency had left him ; his tongue and teeth were clean ; there remained no unnatural blackncfs or fxtor in his liools, which had now regained their proper con- iiilence i his dozing and muttering were gone olf; and the difagreeable odour of his breath and pcr- fpiration was no longer perceived. He took noiirifhment to-day with pleafure j and, in the afternoon, fat up an hour in his cliair. His feVer, however, did not immediately leave him ; but this we attributed to his having caught cold from being incautioufly uncovered, wdien the window was open, and the weather extremely fevcre ; for a cough, which had troubled him in fome degree from the beginning, increafed, and he became likewife very hoarfe for feveral days, his pulfe, at the fame time, growing quicker: but thcfe complaints alfo went off, and he re- covered, without any return of the bad fymptoms above-mentioned. I am, Reverend Sir, Your obliged humble fervant, vvm. hey. POSTSCRIPT. Oilober 29, 1772. Fevers of the putrid kind have been fo rare.in this town and in its neighbourhood, fmce the commence-