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
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    I told him that during the first month, the principal remedy would be the Lichen Islan- dicus, and the Iceland Chocolate his principal diet; he was obedient, and so immediately per- ceived the advantage of it, that he contrived various means of using the Lichen, and less than three months attention completely rees-? tablished liim. CASE XIX. Lady Ch. D , aged 23 years, with a scrophulous predisposition, of a very delicate constitution, with narrow chest, high shoulders, and long neck; was attacked in the month of September 1801, with a dry cough, the obsti- nacy of which fatigued her much : her voice was become shrill; there was a weight and op- pression on the chest, which was encreased by the least exercise, and an excessive expectora- tion had, with reason, excited great alarm in her family. The patient alone being persuaded that it was nothing more than a cold, which time would cure. A fever however soon supervened, which encreased after meals. Her checks were of a brilliant red; and tlie rest 9f