Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm : as a remedy in fever and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie.

  • James Currie
Date:
1805
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    9.—Noon—pulse 90 and feeble—respira- tion easy—heat 100°.—The affusion was imme- diately employed, and again repeated in the even- ing, sensible perspiration, coolness, and quiet sleep, were the consequence. Dec. It). This day the affusion was twice re- peated as yesterday, viz. at noon, and at six in the evening.—At eight in the evening the pulse was 76, the skin soft, the heat 97% the respiration easy and natural.—The fever returned no more. This patient used no other remedies but an enema, and after it an opiate, every night. The affusion was used 'wice every day; in all six times. CASE IV. Feb. 2. 1792. S. C. a healthy man, aged forty- four, about seventy-two hours after the first attack of fever, became my patient. His pulse 100—his heat 104°.—The other symptoms as usual—but the pain in the head and back particularly severe. Two minutes after the affusion—pulse 90, heat tOl?; six minutes after—pulse 90 and weakten minutes after, pulse 90, heat ]00°.—This patient felt <^reat refreshment, and was entirely relieved of the pain in the head and back.—In the evening however the exacerbation-of fever was severe, and
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