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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![lungs, &c. but often brings on a faliSify perfpiration over the whole body; a copious fecretion of mucus in the branchiae, fauces and nofe; and hi this, anticipating or allilting nature in her own way in bringing en a mild io- lution of the dileafe. It will therefore be befx to limit fiillvomiling to the fir ft ftage of the complaint, and after- wards to fupply its place by emetic medicines in finall do- fes, frequently repeated, lb as to keep up a pretty con- flant naufea : for which purpofe the gum ammoniac, anti- monial wine, or emetic tartar is ufually prefcribed; and, though any one of them will anfwer tolerably well, the latter being copioufly diluted, and fre- quently given in fmall quantity, feems to have been at- tended with the happier* effects, by rendering the bowels moderately open,andkeeping up a gentle diaphorefis(z;9). il This medicine adminiftred in this manner [in the opi- nion of Doftor James Carmichael Smyth], had alfo a ve- ry remarkable effect in bringing on a remillion of the fe- brile fymptoms, and in accelerating the termination of the diieafe. However the long continued ufe of antimonials (50), or of naufeating medicines of any kind, is apt at length, to debilitate the flomach fo much as to render it in a good meafure, incapable of retaining food, drink, or medicine ; and this, perhaps, at a time when they are moft needful. Thefe medicines likewife loon loofe their fudoriiic power over the fyftem, and, as Dr Donald Monro allures us, even James's celebrated febrifuge powders have occafion- ed fuch a purging as to hajien the patients to their graves. (49) All attempts ibfoteeJibkfft appear to have done more harm than good. Load. Med. Trans. Vol. ?. page 1.:. (50) '■ Large dofes of antimonials, or even fmaller o-ies too frequently repeated, have foinetimes brought oft Evaluations, which entirely lank the patient. Lind on hot clin;ates, page 26T. And, On the fame [\ibjccr, fee Or. D. Monro's Gbierv. vol. 2. p. 13 and 15—alfo Dickinfon on fevers p. 115.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133852_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
