An inaugural dissertation on the influenza : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, in order to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the eighth day of May A.D. 1793 / by Robert Johnston, of Philadelphia, member of the American Medical Society.
- Johnston, Robert, 1750-1808
- Date:
- MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, in order to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the eighth day of May A.D. 1793 / by Robert Johnston, of Philadelphia, member of the American Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3° 3 gven in full dofe, it would feem fafer [for the W»aftffl ftfggefted under the preceding head] to adminMter them fo as to keep the body regular, or gently lax(45); or to ■f imply their place either by clyflers(46), cr emetics in the manner next to be mentioned. 3. VOMITS. Whenever there appears to be an inflam- mation of the lungs, which rfiay be known by flitches or acute pains about thecheft, theie would be improper, as t^rfdiHg to give e::cp.'fhe and unneceflary pain ; and would endanger the rupture of a blood vefiel in the lungs, with all its bad ccmequences,—without any probabilit)' of thtir proving ierviceable. An early exhibition of full Vomiting is very proper, in order to bring on a determi- nation of the fluids to the furface of the body (47), which not only contributes to the expuljion of the exciting caufe (4S), and thereby preventive of an inflammation of the (45) Gentle laxatives were frequently ufed with advantage in the beginning of the complaint, efpeciallv where there was a difpofirion to couivenefs, ftrong purges do not appear to have been often given ; and from general abfervation refpeclingthe eireas ot bleeding, there is reafonto think, they would in moil cafeshaye, been prejudicial. Med. Commun. Vol. 1. p. 38. (46) Wallis's Sydenham, Vol. II. page 337. (47) Emetics exhibited upon the/;'//' dttXci. [of the influenza] wer .- evidently of ufe in relieving the head and bread. Lend. Med. Trans. Vol. 2. page 7^. They do not appear to have been very generally ufed jin the epidemical catarrh of 1782], but all who did employ them, concur in opinion, that they were of great fervice, not only where there was realon to fufpect an accumulation oi mucus in the bronchial ratifications, but alfo where they were given chiefly with a view to aflift in produc- ing a fpeedy aud copious pcrfpiration. Med. Communications, Vol. I. page 35. (41-:) Before the miafma was fixed and propagated in the body, it was wholly carried off in feveral patients who kept in bed immediately alter fet ling the firft attack by a large perfpi- ration. Other fpontaneons evacuations., b\ vomiting, loo(e- nefs or urine were lefs iVecp:ent. and did no. feem to procure inch immediate, and great relief, unleis they were followed by afweat. Dr. lieimarus, Hamburgh. See Med. Commun. vol. I. p. 30, '•](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133852_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
