Observations on pulmonary consumption, or, An essay on the Lichen Islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / by J.B. Regnault, M.D.
- Huguenin, Moses, 1756-1819.
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, or, An essay on the Lichen Islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / by J.B. Regnault, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![companied with severe coug]], and consider- able aftec.tion of the chest, the flushing of the checks, some spitting of blood, and the state of the pulse, determined them to bleed, which perhaps they did too frequently. This only augmented the disorder, and weakened the patient; the emaciation made every day a most alarming progress; the excretions were profuse, the least exercise en creased the fever, the access of which became sensibly more manifest every evening after dinner. Having consulted a physician who was deemed skilful in the cure of this disease, he abruptly an- nounced to the patient that he laboured under an incurable phthisis; previously alarmed by his situation, this declaration threw him into a profound melancholy* It was early in May 1796 that the patient came to me perfectly convinced that his situation was irremediable. I endeavoured to calm his fears, put him on the use of the Lichen Islandicus, and prescrib- ed a suitable regimen. I continued my at- tendance till the month of August, when he was well enough to undertake a long voyage* From that time IJiave received information E 2 that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21469817_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
