Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews.

Date:
1783
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    find the pulfe rife too high the cortex may be omitted for a day or two, and then repeated as before. In this period of the diforder we do not apprehend the inefficacy of falivation (unlefs too fpeedily brought on) bat inftead of checking it, we are to continue the remedies, fupport- ing the patient with nutritive diet, until the procefs is fufficiently lengthened to effect the cure ; which, though under thefe predicaments is very difagreeable, yet is always effe61:ual. When the fpit- ting is rifen to its proper height, we are not fuddenly to retrad: the powers of medicine, but omit them cautioufly and gradually, proportioning the evacu- ation to the ftrength of the affli61:ed. When the hepatitis arifes from remote caufes, created by a remitting fever, or ina6live vifceral obil:ru(5tions, and is attended with great relaxation and weak- nefs; either a copious or mild falivation is not advifeable ; yet the difeafe cannot be removed, or the obftru6tions refolved, without the affiftance of mercury, but we muft regulate the quantum of the mineral, fo as to prevent this effe6l j fome- times