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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    r I 76 ] [Chap. II* SECTION XVIII. THE HARD AND EQUAL PULSE. ALTHOUGH It be very true, that many cireumftances in the age, fex, conftitution, affebtions of the mind, and fize of the artery itfelf, affebt the pulfe; it is yet equally certain,, that the dobtrine of Pulfes has a very principal fhare in the diagnoftic art: nor is there any fort of pulfes more worthy of our attention than thofe which are Hard And Equal; for the hard one., if equal at the fame time, plainly indicates an inflammatory date of the juices, a fullnefs of the veffels, obftrubcions from lizy blood in the capillary arteries, and in general a denfe ft ate of the blood, accompanying almoft every inflammatory fever. By a Hard pulfe I mean, when the artery feems, on being felt, to contain a wire or folid fubfcance within it; of all others, the fort of pulfe which is lead apt to miflead. It almoft always indicates a reduction of the ftrength. In rheumatic and other inflammatory fevers, where no particular vifcus is affected, I have examined the pulfe by the watch two or three times a day, for feven, fourteen, feven- teen, twenty-one, or even more days together, without finding it vary three ftrokes in a minute, not even at noon and midnight, when feniible alterations have been faid to be obfervable in the pulfe s nor am I acquainted with any fymptom more