An historical dissertation concerning the malignant epidemical fever of 1756. With some account of the malignant diseases prevailing since the year 1752, in Kidderminster / [James Johnstone].
- James Johnstone
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An historical dissertation concerning the malignant epidemical fever of 1756. With some account of the malignant diseases prevailing since the year 1752, in Kidderminster / [James Johnstone]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and qualities; and that in a very compendious and agreeable form. The fait of nitre itielf has been re¬ commended by fome very celebrated authors in ma¬ lignant fevers ; but the effeds I have obferved from it, have by no means recommended it to me *, though, in other diforders of the inflammatory kind, I am convinced we are unacquainted with a more excellent remedy. But, though given in the very beginning ofthefe fevers, it funk the pulfe, and, without aba¬ ting the heat, or any other fymptorn, the patents lownefs and oppreffion and inquietude were inaeafed by it. In fad, as this fait is known to refolve the. blood globules, in the very manner they are refolved in dborders the moil highly putrid, it does not feem 3, proper remedy in diforders limply malignant, but when, as is frequently the cafe, especially in the be¬ ginning of ftich diforders, an inflammatory fizinefs is combined with and aduated by a malignant miafma, nitre, if joined with camphire, after the manner of Ri- verius % or with warming and diaphoretic medicines, according to the prefcription and pradice of Mead f and Hoffman J, may be given in the beginning of fuch difeafes, with advantage. For thus the nature of the diforder being rendered more Am¬ ple, and the method of cure unimbarraffed with contra-indications, a recovery will afterwards eafier t?rary Effay, Vol.IL) of Edinburgh, that opium mud be hurtful in diforders where it is requifite to fupport the vis vitis, the vafcu- |ar energy, and the motion of our fluids. * Vide Fraxeos Medicae, Lib. XVII. De Febri Peftilenti. •f Monita & Pnecepta Medica, p. 24.. ] Hoffmanni Med. Sylt. Tom. 2. p. 77. ad paflim fecr.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785327_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
