Essays on fevers, and other medical subjects / by Thomas Miner and William Tully.

  • Miner, Thomas, 1777-1841.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Essays on fevers, and other medical subjects / by Thomas Miner and William Tully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is proper to be pursued, during the first week, lor, when Fevers have been judiciously managed during that period, what is often, but in general, very inaccu- rately called the inflammatory stage, or in other and more correct language, the period of excitement or re- action, if it existed at all, will have passed by, there will be a prominent critical or sub-critical change in the symptoms, the patient will be more or less exhaust- ed, and the general indications, of course, will be ob- vious. The question, in the other stages, has not so much respect to the kind, as to the force and degree, of the practice. When called to a patient who has the precursory symptoms of Fever, or even if he has advanced two or three days into the preparatory stage, after we have investigated the nature of the case, the first inquiry is, whether there be a rational prospect of breaking up, or procuring a resolution of the disease; if there is, to make the attempt is of immense importance. The difference between a few days' illness, and that of weeks, the loss of time and property, the suffering, the hazard of life, or of being left with a shattered consti- tution, are incalculable. It is true, when the physician succeeds in breaking up the disease, he loses his fees for protracted attend- ance, and adds little or nothing to his reputation. Physic is the only profession in which, for any great length of time, in direct violation of the common law