An essay upon the effects of camphire and calomel in continual fevers ... To which is added, an occasional observation upon the modern practice of inoculation. And from the whole is deduced an argument ... that the alimentary canal is the principal seat of a fever / [Daniel Lysons].

  • Daniel Lysons
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay upon the effects of camphire and calomel in continual fevers ... To which is added, an occasional observation upon the modern practice of inoculation. And from the whole is deduced an argument ... that the alimentary canal is the principal seat of a fever / [Daniel Lysons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Upon giving Catnphire in a bolus without Nitre I found that a lefs quantity than a fcruple would often occalion a ficknefs, and unealinefs at the ftomach. But iince I have added a few grains of Nitre to the bolus ][ have in feveral cafes given a fcruple every fourth hour for a confiderablc time without obferving any bad effeft whatever, or any difagreeable fenfation i except fometimes a confiderable thirft, which was of fervice, iince it occaiioned the patients drinking freely of fomc diluting liquor ready prepared (as I before mentioned) the confequence of which was ufually an advantageous perfpiration. I cannot omit this opportunity of guarding againft a miftake that may arife from reading a note upon the 25th page of my ElTay on Camphire; where I fay that I have ofteq given a fcruple of Camphire without any preternatural heat, or thirft, being the con¬ fequence. Now although Nitre is not men¬ tioned, yet it is to be underftood as given with the Camphire in thefe inftance§. Doftor Alexander made his experiments upon Camphire with a view to determine the