Case of Intermittent Fever
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intermittent fever, coming on regularly at 3 p. m. on each clay, and subsiding towards 3 or 4 a. m. with a little sweating. The patient had the paroxysm on him when I first saw him. I ordered liq : ammonia?, acetatis mixture, one ounce every three hours. On the following morning, that is, on the 3rd instant, 1 {prescribed quinine grs. iv. to be taken every four hours, and grs. x. to be taken half an hour before the expected paroxysm. .My directions were properly carried out, but the fever came as usual. I ordered quinine to bo repeated with double its quantity of atees, but the result was no belter.
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دوره 1 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016