An inaugural dissertation on pneumonia, or pulmonary state of fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 17th May 1796 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Edward Jones, of South-Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

  • Jones, Edward, active 1796.
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1796
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on pneumonia, or pulmonary state of fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 17th May 1796 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Edward Jones, of South-Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *9 ) torn and fides of the veffel—and 6th. fizy or buffy coated blood.—Thefe are guides that! believe will feldom deceive us : moil of them are fanctioned by facts drawn from obferva- tionsmade in my preceptor's* practice—others from fome inflances that have come under my own care during this fc^Con, and all of them from the indubitable authority of fome practi- tioners in this city. Any period of the difor- der with attention to the foregoing remarks admits of this remedy, whether applied in the earlier or later ftages of it, and fo long as any of them remain violent the prudent practition- er will always have recour£e to ven. feet, as the moll fafe and certain remedy 5 I fay al- ways, becaufe when the complaint exiils with confiderable force, this means becomes abfb- lutely neceffary to procure the beneficial effects which other methods offer, more efpecially expectoration, and hence fays Dr. Cullenf, during the firft days of the difeafe, I have not found that bleeding flops expectoration, on the contrary, I have often obferved bleeding pro- mote it ; and it is in a more advanced itageof the difeafe only, when the patient by large evacuation, and the continuance of the difeafe