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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![ble or milk diet fubfrituted in its ftead (^3). Dr. Roth- erhim is of opinion that '•' an abftinence from all food would accelerate the cure ; and poflibly, in feme cafes, it might have this effecl, yet as the prefcription feems a harm one, and might in many perfons induce an. irritation from hunger much more dangerous than the ftimulus of a fmall quantity of bland aliment in the fto- mach, it would be preferable to allow as much as would allay this fenfation. Low diet has its limits ; nor lhould it be much longer perfifted in than whilft the inflammato- ry diathefis is prefent in the fyftem. A gentleman of the faculty in this city, who had the influenza in the fall of 89, Uriah/ adhered to the anti- phlogistic regimen, and to his aitonifhment perceived the difeafe, inftead of abating, to grow worfe : he reverfed the plan, lived generoully, and got well(55). 5. DILUENT DRINKS. Of whatever kind the fe- ver may be, thefe feem to be indicated. There is a great variety of them, and but little preference; as any of them will anfwer fufficiently well, if a due attention be paid to their temperature and quantity. , As a general rule, tepid drinks (56) would feem to (51) What Doftor Sydenham has beautifully fair]. -when pointing out the cure of the Qumzy, is ftri&ly applicable here, viz. Meats of every kind, and like-wife broths prepared from them, are /acred, and muft not be touched. (55) A generous diet [in fomc inftances] was highly con- ducive to a more fpeedy recovery, and many bore a more libe- ral ufe of wine than is generally given in catarrhs from cold. Lond. Med. Mem. V. 2. p 463. (56) The drinking frequently of tepid, emollient liquors is a kind of internal relaxing fotus to the prime vir, prseeowHa, &c. which is of no fmall confequence, efpecially in inflammati- ons of the lungs, pleura, fee. Tins was the practice of the an- tients, who gave little eKe in fevers, befides their watery dilu- ents, ptifan, or barley-water, hy'dromel, oxymel, &c. Hux- ham on. fevers, page 24?—See Doctor Win. Fordyce's inquiry into the caufes, &c. of fevers, pages 00, and 180.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133852_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
