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
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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.

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    Juvencula a me interrogata de modo quo fehris primum invadebat, et de cjufmodi duratione, faffa eft fe a dyfenteria, quas tum ubi(]ue fcrc grafiabatur, aquauordecem retro diebus fuidc liberatum; cui five fua fponte decedenti, fivc medicamenti ope depulfe protinus fucceffit didta febris cum dolore capitis : quibus ego me rec- tiffime occurrere poffe conje&abam, li dyfente- rias loco aliam evacuationem fubftituerem, ejus fimillimam, quas prseclufa febris oborta eft. Itaque aggreffus erat morbus venasfeclionibus ct repetitis purgationibus. lbid. 25. In the epidemic which prevailed duriog the years 1673, 1674, and 1675, our author adopted the following plan. Hunc itaque cur- fum inftitui: fanguinem e brachii venis mitten- dum, ea quantitate, quas a?gri viribus, astati, aliifque circumftantiis convenire mihi vifa eft, ante omnia curabsm, atque eodem fere tempore emplaftrum epifpalticum bene largum Nucha- applicandum. Die proximo clyfterem lenitivum ita tempore injiciendum przecepi, ut ante noctem fedari poffet tumultus, qui ab eo inter operan- dum excitaretur, hora fcillicet fecunda tertiave poft meridiem. Repetebatur enema illud fin- gulis diebus donec imminueretur morbivis. Sedh v. cap. ii. He has favoured us with an inftance of this mode of treatment. 'Menfe Septembri 1674, filium novennem librarii cujufdam asdibus meis vicini, nomine Not, hac febre una cum fymptomate jam fcepe memorato (ftupore) labo- rantem tradtabam : Extracto e brachio fanguine, ct clyfteribus, per piimos aliquot morbi dies continuos,