Twelve commentaries on fevers. Explaining the method of curing these disorders, upon the principles of Hippocrates / Translated by N. Peters.

  • Glass, Thomas, 1708?-1786.
Date:
1752
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Credit: Twelve commentaries on fevers. Explaining the method of curing these disorders, upon the principles of Hippocrates / Translated by N. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COMMENTARY II. Of Concoction and Crudity ; with other Signs, as well of Recovery, as oj Death, IN every Fever great Regard is to be had to what PhyGcians call the Stages, or Periods of the Difeafe, and thefe are iour, viz, the Beginning, the Increale, the State, and the Declenfion (5). In the Beginning, according to Hippocrates, all things are crude and gentle j but thefe Crrcumftances are not limited to any cer¬ tain Number of Days, therefore neither is the Beginning of the Difeafe. A Fever then will be in its firft Stage until the Signs of Concodion, or of great Danger appear. After the Beginning is the In- creafe, which continues fo long as the Com- (5) Galen, de Crif, lib, i. b3 plaints