The case of a hydrophobia / By Dr. Fothergill. Reprinted from the fifth volume of Medical observations and inquiries. By a a [sic] society of physicians in London. With additions.

  • Fothergill, John, 1712-1780.
Date:
1778
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Credit: The case of a hydrophobia / By Dr. Fothergill. Reprinted from the fifth volume of Medical observations and inquiries. By a a [sic] society of physicians in London. With additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    kind of nourilhment by the pafiages left open, viz. the bowels and the fkin, and thereby enabling Nature to fupport the conteft longer; or elfe, to calm and re¬ lax, and render the conflidt at lift lefs terrible to the affilfants, and lefs painful to the iufferer. We thought ourfelves juftified, from confidering the Hate of the pulfe, and other circumftances, to take away fume blood, and repeatedly. That we might not reduce the ftrength beyond what ap¬ peared necefiary, we chofe to order it to be taken from the Patient ftanding ; be- caufe, we were fatisfied, he could not lofe fo much blood in that fituation as would be detrimental without faintino-. much fooner than he would have done in a fitting or decumbent pofture. Additional