Elements of therapeutics, or, A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by the Rev. Joseph Townsend.

Joseph Townsend

Date:: 1801

Credit: Elements of therapeutics, or, A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases. Designed chiefly for the use of students / by the Rev. Joseph Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$god. GENERAL Crass I], Nevroszs. — Order IIT. Spafini. - In the animal funttions. 41. Raphania. A fpafmodic contra¢tion of the joints, with convulfive motions and moft violent pain: periodical. 42. Epilepfia. Convulfions with fleep, and ufually froth iffuing from the mouth. 43. Convulfio. Alternate relaxations, with violent and involuntary contractions OF the moving fibres, without fleep. 44. Chorea. Convulfive motion et the at or: trunk. 4s. slanis: Spafmodic esi of almoft the whole body. In the vital funéions. 46. Palpitatio. A palpitation of the heart, either conftant, or frequently returning. | 47. Dy/pnea. Difficult refpiration, continual, and without fenfe of ftriture. Cough frequent through the whole courfe of the difeafe. 48. Afbma. Difficult refpiration returning at intervals, with a fenfe of ftri€ture acrofs the breatt and in the lungs; 2 wheezing; hard cough at firft, but more free towards the clofe of every paroxy{m, with a difcharge of mucus, followed by a:remiffion. 49. Pertuffs. Convulfive, ftrangulating: cough, with hooping, relieved by vomiting: contagious. tn the natural funétions. 50. Pyrofis. Weart-burn, with copious eructa- _tion, generally of a watery infipid fluid. 51. Dy/enteria. Frequent griping ftools, chiefly _mucus, fometimes mixed with blood. It is com- monly attended by tenefmaus, and is contagious. r 52. Colca.$