Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifics, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / [Thomas Fowler].

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801
Date:
1795
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifics, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / [Thomas Fowler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cations. He rnuft therefore reft it’s merits upon the importance and frequency of the difeafe, the utility of the remedies employed* in particular the tindure of guaiacum, and the manner in which he has purfued his in¬ quiry. It is hoped however, that, under this dif¬ ad vantage, the author will be excufed, if he / * take the liberty of mentioning, in a few words, fome circumftances, which led him to adopt the prefent fubjed. For near ten years he had been one of the phyficians to * * the general infirmary at Stafford; and the facility he had acquired in writing fhort- hand enabled him during that time to col¬ led:, in a circumftantial manner, from his public and private pradice, about five thou- find cafes of different difeafes. On drawing out very fhort abftrads of thefe difeafes, firft in a chronological, and then in a generical order, he found, that he had f