The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
Date:
1847
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    85/524 (page 79)
    The patient should be washed, all over his body and limbs, with the rebefacient solution; and if this does not keep the surface moist, the rubefacient oil must be applied freely, once a day, in addition to this; or if the oil is not at hand, the ba- thing drops may be used in its stead. The sudorific powder, should also be used, in tea spoonful doses, or less if it should nauseate too much, once every two hours, alternating with the tonic. Should the disease not yield by the second day after the cathartic is given, th? emetic and baths, and also the cathar- tic, if necessary should be repeated, and then followed up as before. When there is much fever and headache, and especially if there should be delirium, the patient should be sponged with cold water, and if this does not let down the fever, he should be wrapped up in a wet sheet, drinking at the same time a tea of thoroughwort. CONTINUED FEVER. (Fcbris Continua.) The term continued fever, is only a relative name, as it is a remarkably rare occurrence, if indeed it ever happens, that a fever runs its entire course, without an intermission of some character. The name is therefore only given, to distinguish those fevers which have no well marked intermissions, or re- missions, from those already described, which have such mark- ed intervals of relief. To this class belong synocha or simple inflammatory fever, synoclius, typhus, typhoid, and the plague. But it is thought best, to treat all these separately, for there is no one of them that does not ] ossess such peculiarities as are well calculated to distinguish them. It is therefore designed to treat synochus alone, u.nd t this head, as it b:st answers to the nam^; it likewise being that form of fever most g nerally known, through the country as simple continued fever. This grad^ of f ver, is that most generally mat in common prac- tice; it occurs in all seasons, climates, and places; and among all classes of people. Symptoms.—This, like some other forms of fever, admits of such a variety of modifications, that it is difficult to give such