Author, U: Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1827, Vol

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1827, Vol. 28: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy

It is not to be inferred, however, that he who draws off blood most early and copiously will generally succeed, or even be the most successful. Blood-letting in the Spanish fever was com. Monly most useful when used moderately arid discreetly; the quantity required being from one to two pounds for a full grown person. Sometimes, however, it was used more freely and bold ly. In other instances it was used cautiously, and frequently, according to the particular circumstances of the case. In many cases it was quite inadmissible. The system was fra quently at the commencement of an attack in a state of depres sion sometimes perhaps from the deleterious effects of the fe brific miasmata on the constitution generally; and sometimes from destructive local congestion, and other causes not at all times well understood. The pulse at the beginning was often in a particularly oppressed state. Sometimes it was too violent; but frequently it was feeble and irregular.

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