Observations on the epidemic fever, of the year 1741 : To which are added several cases, as examples of the benefit arising from bleeding, and purging, in the cure of this fever, in its several stages / By Daniel Cox.

  • Cox, Daniel, -1759.
Date:
1742
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Credit: Observations on the epidemic fever, of the year 1741 : To which are added several cases, as examples of the benefit arising from bleeding, and purging, in the cure of this fever, in its several stages / By Daniel Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that too confufed. In this way fhe re¬ mained till about the feventh Day of her Ulnefs, when fhe began to have gentle Sweats, and grew extremely fleepy; fhe had now taken the Cordial Medicines, with the Conf\ Mithridat. two or three Days. Her Sweats continued increafing, and on the twelfth Day* of her Illnefs fhe feem’d quite out of Danger and foon recovered, but was extremely weaken’d. I would obferve on this Cafe, that it was through a great deal of Danger this Lady efcaped with her Life, nor in all Pro¬ bability could fhe have ftruggled thro’ it, if feme Blood had not been taken away at the beginning: But it feems very proba¬ ble fhe would have recovered much eafier, and without the bad Symptoms fhe had, if it had been taken in larger Quantities, and a cooler Method in general obferved. I will only give one Inftance more, to fhew that notwithftanding the neceffity of large Bleeding and a cool Regimen in ge¬ neral, there may be particular Cafes where it may admit of fome Abatement, but this is a Point we ought to be very cau¬ tious about, left we deceive our felves by imagining an Incapacity to bear Bleeding and our general Method, where there is none. A