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An Appendix To The Fifth Edition Of Dr. Brookes's General Practice Of Physic: Containing Several Recent Improvements And Discoveries In Medicine by Richard Brookes. This volume is a late-18th-century medical compendium that updates and expands the author’s earlier General Practice of Physic with new observations, refinements, and clinical guidance. It surveys foundational issues in physiology and pathology—obstructions, excess circulatory motion, pleura and fever; it includes sections on pain, Summary of fevers, and the Boerhaavean doctrine of fevers, with a practical emphasis on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. The text discusses the mechanics of blood flow, vessel contraction, heat, respiration, and the interplay of humours, and it gives detailed therapeutic recommendations, including bleeding, purging, emetics, tonics, bark (cinchona) preparations, and the use of topical remedies and baths for various conditions. It also covers infectious diseases and contagion, with early reflections on smallpox inoculation, plague, and venereal disease, presenting a mixture of Hippocratic-Galenic theory and emergent clinical evidence. The work reflects eighteenth-century debates on medical theory, disease causation, and therapeutic intervention, and it stands as a bridge between traditional authority and practical observation in general practice.
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