Nature and effects of emetics, purgatives, mercurials, and low diet, in disorders of Bengal and similar latitudes / by John Peter Wade.

  • Wade, John Peter, -1802
Date:
1792
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Credit: Nature and effects of emetics, purgatives, mercurials, and low diet, in disorders of Bengal and similar latitudes / by John Peter Wade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^ pletely reftored. The only inconvenience ^ I felt, and which I thought would wear off ‘ by degrees, was a flight feverifh fenfation * about the full and change of the moon, * and which generally went off as the in- * fluence of that planet ceafed, In this re- ‘ covered ftate I quitted Chitterpore, and as < I had held out fo long without a relapfe, I ‘ entertained not the le^fl; idea of being again ‘ regularly attacked; you may eafily there- ‘ fore judge of my furprize, when I found ‘ myfelf again feized with the ague, and » that too on the very firfl; day of quitting * Chitterpore, after having marched eleven or * twelve miles in high fpirits, and (as I ‘ thought) good health. I breakfaflied that < morning as ufual, and kept well till about ^ eleven o’clock, when I began to'feel that ‘ kind of uncomfortable coldnefs which al- * ways precedes an ague. I took lome w^tm ‘ Madeira and water, went to bed, and about ‘ twelve the Ihaking fit came on with con- ‘ fiderable violence. I took -an emetic in ‘ fmall quantities for leven or eight hours ‘ fuccelTively before it operated; and then, ‘ as ufual, only water came off my flomach; < however it threw me into a perfpiration, f which gave me eafe. The next day I was f feized with lefs violence, and a little later, ‘ A ' ■ ' ^ an^
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