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Show gm; Continued and Malignant Peter. mm, of "cm" "W Siiiiiiiiilm WC", Sign?" be Boole ll. In the declination of theDifeafe, careVilnqu‘t be {raisin Eg§::2:0b::aten (before the Fever is fome time gone ) n ne 1 con i ii g. {J I g eous Parts will put the Blood upon a new Fermentation, and increa e t to inflammation of the Blood, which hath often proved fatal to the Patient: If the {ten it‘r of the Patient be not brought very low, a gentle Purge may be ad- fi:f,‘:,i,'2,§for vilfedgro carry off the reliqnes of the difeafe, and cleanle the Stomach and ic‘ifrlitfiiii‘ Guts of grofs Excrements, and to render them fit for coneoéiion and dril‘tri. Wu" biition of Aliment. _ ' . . And when the Fever is difcharged, it IS. requrlite, in order to preferve the Patient in health, to advife him to begin with Broth, new land Eggs poched, and afterward to eat Filh, eafie of digefiion-before the free eating of Hell). A Malignant Fever proceedeth from A." infefted With poyfonous (teams, whereupon the mixtion of the Blood is dilfolved, and the various Elements ferered from their intimate union, and the Purple .Liquor Concreted, and the more ferous Precipitated, and the Animal Jmce vitiated, which is accompa- nied with a great difficulty of breathing, at Delzrzum, Convulfive Motions, Vomitings, nniverfal Horrors, tremblings .0f the whole Body, Syncopes, Lipothymies, avid. greater or lefs fainting Fits, >é‘rt‘. . This Fever is called Malignant or l'efiilential, by reafon of its venenate nature, in which it refembleth the operation of l'oyfon taken into the body, which produceth the fame fymptoins7 and is akin-to this Fever in the types and periods of its Paroxyfins 2 Ofthis cafe I "'1" give you a mofi remarkable Aniiiflanceof i‘.,‘§}2;*§;""" Eighth"? "‘c and Piiiidss Siifciiiiig' Book II. infiance of aParient of mine, bafely poyfoned by a Servants Mother ( contrary to all duty and gratitude) putting a quantity of Powder of Arfenick into Coffee-water. A Knight of the Bali), a Perfon of great Fortune, Vertue, and Honour, about eleven a Clock the Third day. of 080120, i 676. drunk two difhes of Coffee, and immediately Vomited With great violence7 and f0 continued about ten hours, in which (be conceived) he vomited thirty times, which was accompanied many hours inwardly with a great heat and thirfi, With an uniVerfal horror or coldnefs affeéting the whole fiirface of the body, which was .16th with general Convullive motions of the IVqucles, and trembling ofthe Nerves andirl‘endons, whereupon his fitcngth was f0 dejected in a very few hours, that his 1 egs could not fupport him, and his l'iilfe gre\\'qiiicl<, weak, and fouictimes intermitting 5 he laboured allo With a great difficulty of breathing, which was now and then for fome fhort time intercepted, and then returned again, he was alfo afflicted with aliigh 1:11;:er dil‘tending his Stomach and Outs, productive of great tenlive pains: Thefe lymptoms or fome of them at leaf'c, afi‘eé‘ted him from the takingy of the Coffee till VVednefday at noon, and then had fome alleviation till about two on Thurfday morning, and then many of the former aceidents returned (much aping a Malignant Fever) and aflliéietl him till about eleven a Clockon the fame day, and then had cafe all the afternoon, and fore part of the night till two the next morning, and then the Fever and lyinptoins were renewed, and held him till about eleven the flime day, f0 that this Malignant Difeale and fymptoms, lalied at firli for two days and nights, and afterward lafied but nine or ten hours in Four and twenty, for fix or feven days more; and upon the application of proper Cordials,and great Dofes ofOriental Bazaar he had free bwoats for five or fix days together, which brought out an innumerous company of Pimples (full of Serous Liquor ) befetting the whole furface or the Skin, whichfpake a period to the Difeafe, to the Glory of Owl, and the loy of his Phyfician and Friends. , CHAR C H A P. XXVII. Of the Difi'n/er oft/96 Heart, and their Own Aving done with the various kinds of Fever s, I will now with your permiflion Treat of other Difeafes relat ing to the Heart begin- ning with an Inflamarion, which proceedeth froni a q'uanti ty, or from , thiclt- Thcca‘lk‘" nefs of Blood, impelled out ofthe beginning of the Aorlannto the Coronary iibiiiii'iiiia Artery, and out of the terminations of its Capillaries, is Iranihllrft‘d into Him the empty fpaces of the VeilEls (appertaining to the flefliy Fibres of the Heart) Where it groweth Stagnated, as not being in acapacity to be recei- ved into the minute Origcns of the Coronary Veins; whereupon it beina fome time extravafated in the carnous Fibre s of the Heart, doth gain an Milt: natural Effervefce nce, highly difcompofing the Motion of the Fibres in or« der to make good adue Syliole of the Heart ; whereupon enmetli an In~ termittent Pulfe, flowing from an exuberant quantity of Blood lodned in the Ventricles, as not able to be difcharged by the contraction ofthebwealt- ned, inflamed, and tumefied carnous Fibres,wh ich produce Lypothymies Syn- copes, and palpitations of the Heart. ) Ifthe Blood be long extravafared in the Hefhy Fibre s of the Heart, it lo~ fethits Native bounty (as wanting inteliine and local Motions ) and defienerates into a corrupted condition, whence arifet‘h an Abfcefs, derived {aim Annotate? acolleétion of Matter, lodged in the empt y fpaces of the Vefiels belona- "WW" ing to the carnous Fibres of the Heart, which being Corroded by the Acii~ monious Particles of the rPM, do difcharge it into the more enlaroed Cayity of either Ventricle'; whereupon an Abfcefs becometh an Ulcer:9 whic h A uim -f is aFlux of "Pm or fanious Matter, out of the of the inward parts, or thrown out of the Confi fubftance into fome Cavity "'1 "hm: nes of the Body, by the eor~ ruption and perforation of the Cntir and Clltifulil An iiifiance may be given of an Ulcer of the Heart (flowing from an In~ An inflame of flammation and Abfcefs) in a Citizen,afili6t ed with the deadly fymptomcs of ‘l'cu'CC'UF a Fever, Lypothymies, Syncopes, (give. and the Thorax and Ventricles of his m mm Heart being opened, were found to be filled with thin {linking fanious Matter. . To prevent this final flroke, caufed by Abfceffes and Ulcers of the TheCureof, gjfifertaegéelonly way is timely to take off the Infla ‘ .g t! too great a Head, which IS done mmation, before the Di- 2,2,}:mm" by free and repeated Bleed~ mg ma plethorick Confiitution, Which emptieth the Coronary Vein into the Vent: Cam, and Right Ventricle, whereby the Coronary Blood-Vell els may be in fome degree emptied, and the Stagnancy of the Blood (in the lnterf‘tices of the Vefl‘els ) taken away by the reception of it into the extremities of the Vein. As tothe Fever coding and opening Apozemes , mixed with gentle Diu~ T'itCurcef rBelticlts, a'revcry proper, which do cool and attenuate the hot and grofs iii: rl :iiiirfmd take off its aptnefs to Stagnate, by promoting its more dull SWEET or PEA; £0 Syneopes and Lypothyinies atten ding Inflammations of the cart, 3" mUIiions are very advantageous, adding to" each'Dofe, many drops a 01' |
