A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton.

Date:
1806
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Credit: A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton. 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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    began to experience violent peripneumonic afFeC'- tions, and became one of the severest cases of this fever, with highly inflamed blood. Some- times also, by a first venesection, the pains of the head are increased to a great degree; gene- rally, however, these pains are mitigated, or at least the pectoral affection appears, after a first blood-letting, to draw more of the patient’s at- tention, for the reason above stated. These in- creased [uneasy sensations upon blood-letting, which have had, and no doubt will have, in fome, the effect of dissuading from the use of the lancet, are indications of a violent disease, and require more persevering and copious venesections. Much stress is, by practitioners, placed upon the appearance of the blood, upon a first vene- section, which, if it should exhibit an inflam- matory crust, seems to confirm them in the pro- priety of again having recourse to the use of the lancet, should the symptoms not abate, or should they again exacerbate, after having remitted in their violence. This appearance of inflammation on the blood, however, will not be met with on a first, or even sometimes on a second venesec- tion, in many violently inflammatory cases of D 2