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
Catalogue details

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.

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

    60/90 (page 54)
    ( 5^ ) of May 1798 she determined to have me called in. Leaches to the pudendum, sitting in a partial bath,f an issue in the thigh, and the continued use of the Lichen Islandicus both as food, and medicine, entirely reestablished her health in three months, which from that time^ has had no interruption, CASE XIV. Mr. H. Fournier, a French clergyman, aged 51, had an abscess in the mesentery, which appeared to have been perfectly cured, but the matter being thrown upon the chest, a trifling cough supervened, with a purulent expectoration tinged with blood, night sweats, with dryness of the skin, emaciation, and at length a slight fever, which increased every evening. The exhibition of the Lichen Islan- dicus upon our principles for three months, completely reestablished his health; two months after, we had occasion to see him, and he had not experienced the slightest return of his dis- order, CASE f Called iu French, Bains defauteuil.