The Oeconomy of Nature in Acute and Chronical Diseases of the Glands (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755 Excerpt: ...in early, I have advised bleeding and giving a little manna; committing the business afterwards to nature, who then proceeds with less difficulty in disposing of the disease after her own way, being not so much oppressed with that fullness, which is apt to do great mischief on the first days of febricitants. But in many cases, where the symptoms are very mild, I do not bleed at all; for I have observed the blood of these patients is not sizy, like those of pleuretics; but the texture appears rather loose and tender, and therefore do not require bleeding so much as inflammatory quinzies. I have remarked also, that many of the patients, whom I have seen in danger, have been more hurt from an hasty and injudicious tampering with the crisis, before nature had sufficiently done her business, than from the sloughs. For the untimely purging to get rid of the tumour of the glands, has brought on a new fever, and the same work was to be done over again, at the utmost peril of the patient. For, these cases will not bear early purging, after the fever is dropt. And indeed I have observed that servants, for this reason, and poor people, who go about with the parotids hard and swelled, and commit the dissipation to nature, have done better, than those who V V have been too early in their use of purging physick. For the crisis of fevers are always dangerous things to puzzle or interrupt. There is a great difference, therefore, between these cases, and Jlrumous parotids; which last are stuffed with pituitous humors, and should by all means be prevented from maturating, and treated with evacuations, in the manner laid down in my treatise on glandular consumptions. But these malignant or critical tumors of the parotids should be left wholly to nature, or, if she points out ...