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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![The MISTURA MUCILAGINOSA (51) which is very frequently ufed in the Philadelphia Difpenfary, is an agreeable and efficacious medicine in mod catarrhal conir plaints ; particularly where the cough is very chftrefJing, and the necefiary evacuations have been previoufly made. A table fpoouful every two or three hours, according as the cough, anxiety, morbid watchfulnefs, &o are urgent, •is the manner in which this excellent remedy is ufually prei'cribed. 1 his mixture poflefies feveral advantages, a_s well from the medicines which it contains, as the due pro- portion in which they enter into it? competition, and the facility with which its powers may be jncreafed without becoming much [if at all] lefs agreeable to the patient. The tincture of opium will render it more anodyne in a given quantity, a few grains of tartar emetic will correct the coufnpating qualities of this, and the whole mixture is thereby more or lefs laxative ; whilft their joint efficacy renders it more powerfully diaphoretic, with fcarcely any alteration in its tafte, or diminution of its demulcent quality. But I have feldom feen it necefiary either to vary the form of the prefcription, or give any other opi- ate (52); and Ihave obferved at leaft a thou fa nd instan- ces fince I attended the practice pi the above inftituti- on,—where the ufe of it was attended not only with evi- dent relief, but [as the patients fometimes emphatically exprefledit] with bleffed effefls. 4. LOW DIET* Animal food feems to be very hurt- ful, efpecially in the beginning of the difeafe ; it ought therefore to be immediately laid afide, and a light vegeta- (51) R. Elixir: Paregoric: gj Vini Antimonial: gfs Mu- cilag: Gum : Arabic &:—Succ : (jlycirrh : aa gfs—Aquae Fontis gvlij M. ; (52) Opiates were a common remedy with mod: phyficians, and they all agree in tcftifying their great vile ; particularly in mitigating the cough, which was in many cafes the mod ti ou- blefome and tedious lymptom of the difeafe. Med. Commun. Vol. I. page 38.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133852_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
