A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.

  • James Carmichael Smyth
Date:
1795
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Credit: A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I [ 65 ] Directions to the Hofpital SurgeonP When a man is brought to trie hofpital with the fymptoms of the jail fever, he is, in the firft place, to be fent to the bathing room, and bathed for ten minutes in water, at the temperature of 100 of Fahrenheit's thermometer; all his clothes are to be; removed to sthe fumigating houfe; after bathing, he is to have an hofpital fhirt put. on, and, being wrapped up in a blanket, muft be conveyed to the hofpital, either jri ,a hammock or f<?dan chair. When put £q bed, he is to have the common glyfter ad- miniftered, and afterwards is to take the tar- tar emetic folution, unlefs where that tncdir cine has been previoufly given by the Sjpanifh furgeon, conformably to his inftrac- tions. Soon after the operation of the emetic, or immediately, where that has been already * I had a bathing room, with two hot ■baths, conr £ru£ted in the hofpital at Winchefter. 1
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