An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton].

  • Buxton, Charles, 1768-1833.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the glands of the mouth and fauces, effectually promotes, a plentiful fecretion of the mucus, by which it affords a fpeedy relief in dry, obftinate catarrhus coughs, particu~ larly when perfifted in’until the mouth becomes affected. by it: at the fame time,; the ufe of mucilagenous drinks will be fervioesbles as Shey ibgath the parts. hbnidi: not the Peruvian riers aad; wine accelerate ths cure? Ii. Our third indications is to obviate the offells of debi lity, and tendency of the funids to putrefaction. « To anfwer this intention, the patient muft be aeete with a mote: liberal diet, fuch.as broths, jellies, and the hike, with a moderate ufe of wine-diluted,. Jn the:mas lignant kind, the griping, colliquative ftools may be im mediately relieved by occafional clyfters of thin mutton broth, with a few drops of laudanum. »The fick cham- ber ought to be kept well ventilated, and of a comfortable temperature; the patient’s: clothes frequently. changed, and every thing removed: that may in ‘the leaft offodd the organs of {melling. The patient’s diet here fhould confift of the moft aafy of digeftion, and fuch things as are applicable, as anti- feptics, accompanied with the free introduction of bland liquids gratefully acidulated.. Perhaps the Peruvian bark would not here be followed by thofe difagreeable affec- tions ufually afcribed to it, if the calomel and opium be carefully given at the fame time, under fuch reftrictions as obfervation alone can dictate. | IV Zo