A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1777
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Credit: A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the urine, the tongue, or the eyes; and the phy- fieian who underftands its nature, and can either fu.pply it when wanting, or unlock it at pleafure when it has regurgitated into the mafs of the blood, or fallen upon the brain, cannot only manage with dexterity moll of the difeafes cf the flrff paffages, and, many chronical difeafes of the word: tendency, but alfo poffelTes the fecret, known to few, of rendering the treatment of putrid almoil as fimple and fafe as that of inflammatory fevers. From the largenefs of the liver, with which every animal is fiirnifhed, and which a great writer ftile$ the Monarch of the Abdomen, we may collect the V peculiar importance of the juices fecreted by it to the purpofes of life. 'i- From its dilcharging the eyflic and hepatic bile into the intelline fo near the llomach, we may infer the neceflnty of its being mixed with the food for, had it been excrementitious^ Nature would not have thus mixed it, but would have dilcharged it \ _ at once nearer to the colon, or redtum. - The flower motion of the blood in the vena portarum, through the liver, promotes a large lecretion of bile; and the flower motion of the blood, through all the vifeera which communicate with the vena porta-*- rum, is probably the reafon why thefe vifcera are more liable to obflrudlions, infardtions, and in¬ flammations, and of courfe frequently become the feat of chronical and grievous difeafes; and like- wife why errors in either the quantity or qu of