A friendly letter of counsel and advice to consumptives and other invalids : also, prescriptions, with special directions for the cure of chills and fever / by S.S. Fitch.

  • Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A friendly letter of counsel and advice to consumptives and other invalids : also, prescriptions, with special directions for the cure of chills and fever / by S.S. Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RECIPE AND DIRECTIONS FOR CURING FEVER AND AGUE. Those who are so unfortunate as to have the Fever and Ague, are aware that It is difficult to find a safe, certain, and reliable cure for it. It is not indeed so difficult to break the fits, and arrest the disease temporarily. But this is not to cure it. It is one thing to break the fits, and another thing, as thousands are aware from a painful experience, to secure the patient against their return- in other words, to actually cure the disease. Almost universally the remedies put forth as specifics for Fever and Ague, as well as the treatment employed for it by physicians generally, are designed and adapted only to break the fits. They do not remove the disease. The malarial poison, which causes the disease, remains in the system, and is exceed- ingly liable, as we all know, to bring on, sooner or later, a return of the chill and the fever. AVhat the patient wants is a aire, and not a mere temporary respite from the eiiects of the disease. By following the directions given below, such a cure will be effected. TO BREAK THE PAROXYSMS, OR FITS. Get at the Druggist's -of Cftiruridine, six drachms, and dissolve it in one ounce of Neutral Spirits. To this add one ounce of Tincture of Geheminum. Then take of this preparation one teaspoonful every hour for four hours. One hour before taking the first dose, drink a cap of very strong coffee, hot, with a teaspoonful of brandy in it. Commence taking this medicine eight hours before the ordinary time for the return of the chill. This will break the chill, and you will have none. This is one part of the treatment. But it is not all that is required for a cure. The following is essential : TO REMOVE THE DISEASE FROM THE SYSTEM. For two days before commencing the use of the above remedies, procure and take my ANTI-BILIOUS MIXTURE. You may inquire for it at any respectable Drug- gist's. Of this Mixture take enough twice a day to act freely on the bowels. The dose is from a teaspoonful to two tablespoonfuls, or more. Ordinarily commence with u tablespoonful, unless the bowels should lie inclined to be loose—then less is required. If constipated, use more. Secure two full and free evacuations every day, and take as much as is necessary to do so. even if it should be a wineglassful. Then continue tiie use of the Anti-Bilious Mixture daily during the entire treatment, and for some two w eeks after the fits, are broken, nsintr it once a day at bed-time, and in sufficient doses to effect one or two free movements daily. The above are proper doses for an adult person of ordinary strength. For younger persons and children, and those very feeble, the doses must be graduated accordingly. Recollect, that the use of this Mixture is absolutely essential to render a perfect cure certain. Wash the whole person every morning in spirits and water, and once a week in soap and water. \ ou may rely upon this treatment as being certain to effect a cure. It will not fail. Should you experience any difficulty in procuring the Medicines mentioned, or in getting them properly put up, I will prepare and send them to you, if re- quested to do so, together with the Anti-Bilious Mixture. The cost of both, put up in a package, will be S3, which must be inclosed. Application can be made by mail, and the Medicines sent by express, or they may be applied for personally. In all cases, give Name. Post-office, County, and State. Address, S. S. FITCH, M.D., 714 Broadway, N. Y.