A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson.

Robert Jackson

Date:: 1791

Credit: A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

491/556 (page 55)

$extremes. For as in one inftance he attacks the fuppofed original caufe; fo in another he is guided by thofe fufferings or fymptoms which. have been ufually ftyled the efforts of nature. But if fuch is the general outline of cure, wc fometimes meet with fomething peculiar in the treatment of the particular fpecies of the difeafe. In a certain fpecies of the ardent bilious fever, where the force of the diforder feems to have affected the alimentary canal in a more efpecial manner, he recommends the following method of treatment. Tw tmcjibi Je Wou ■srivfiv, uJwp te xai fxtTu-iiftiflov ecp9cv, uJapf?, oxoaov tQtXn, xriv •Erix^oy to c7op,a yivr^xi, eweuv ^uupfpa, xai rnv xoiA^v u7roxAi'crai, nv u.r\ CTpo; TauO' Aun7ai, yaXa ovov £\[/??<raf, xa9a/pe, «Ajuupov Je u^Jev, unJt J^tjxu zz-poatpepsiv, ou yap U7roi<r£i, go$ri{*ot\cc J« 8W( av E^ct) tccv xpicrijUtov ytvylai u>j JiJbu. De rat. Vict. in morb. acutis, fect. iv. p. 396. We find likewife that bleeding vvas recom- mended by him in fevers of violence. Ta Pofyoc, ■wccQsa, cpAfSolcjW^irEif, r,v icr^u^ov cpaWai to voo-yip.cc, x«i ei tj^ovjff ax«a£c«>oi t>) ^Aixiw, xai pWjCxri wapi a^Ttoio-iv, ibid. He alio details very circumftantially, in pages 398 and 399, the method of proceeding in the ardent or autumnal bilious fever. Qe^m Jf xa7a£a<rT!f £5 Touf sroJa;, xai oupou Ji£AGov7of, r,v f/,9 i<5jBcco>i, •=rav7a Awcpa. xa7a TovJt ouv tov xai^ov, Jei to pocpwua JiJovai* to7e Je oXfGpof, Jxocroi<ri Je Jia TfAfOf 11 JcoiA?j fv Toicriv -crupcloio-iv uyp^, Tou]toi<n Jia</>£pov7wf touj •sroJaf Sfpuaivc/jv xai wEpio^fAXcov, xnp&juatn xai TaiwJioicri •crfpuAitrcra-v •crpo<rE;£H, oxcof ptn £<rov7a kjkiMjwip^ tou Aoi- wou crcoualcf, Sfpuoiffi JV oucn, «&fpua<rua u-iJev raaoiP- cpfpt, aKXot TxapctlypUf oxwf jjc->j i|/u^6ncrov7ai' sreua7i Je £p££<r9a/, $f &MftinU) uJali ^up^pcy, » ^u£AiJCp>7j^J* 'Oxo- «rjicr»$