The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly.

Date:
[1796?]
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Credit: The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    i6o M E D I C A L M 1 R R O liquids. Nay, the bare fight of water, of a looking- glafs, or any thing clear or pellupidi will give the ut- moft uneafinefs, and even throw the patient into.con- vulfions. In this difeafe there feems to be an extreme fenfibility and irritability of the nervous fyftem. The eyes cannot bear the light, or the fight of any thing white i the leaft touch or motion offends them, and . they want to be kept as quiet and in as dark a place ] as poffible. Some complain of the coldnefs of the j air, frequently when it is really warm. Others com- , plain of violent heat; and have a great defire for cold air, which yet never fails to increafe the fymptoms. In all there is a great flow of the faHva into the mouth j which is exceedingly troublefome to the patients, as it; ■ has the fame effed upon their fauces that other liquids have. This therefore they perpetually blow off with violence, which in a patient of Dr. Fothergill's occa- fioned a noife not unlike the hollow barking of a dog, and which he conjedures might have given rife to the common notion that hydrophobious patients bark like dogs. They have an infatiable thirftj but are unable to get down any drinks except with the utmoft diffi- culty ; though fometimes they can fwallow bread foak- ed in liquids, flices of oranges, or other fruits. There is a pain under the Jcrobiculus cordis^ as in the tetanus; and the patients mournfully point to that place as tha feat of the difeafe. Dr. Vaughan is of opinion that it is this pain, rather than any difficulty in fwallowing, which dlftreffes the patient on every attempt to drink. The voice is commonly plaintive and mournful but