Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • John Pringle
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 36] be attempted by the milder fudorifics. The Contrayerva powders, with nitre, are fafe, but fcarce efficacious; much dilution only op- preffes the ftomach, and the volatiles by themfelves heat too much: neither will acids do alone ; but the two combined are power¬ ful. And therefore when a fweat is to be moved, it will be more eafily and fafely done by the Spirit us Alt rider eri than by any other medicine I have tried. If the patient can have a thorough fweat, with a riling pulfe, it may prove critical; but unlefs a fweat comes ealily, it is never to be forced: and if voluntary and profufe in the beginning, with a low pulfe, it muff be check¬ ed. All the time the. diftemper is in the fe- cond ftage, acids are no lefs grateful than ne- ceffary. And both here and in the following low ftate of the fever, coftivenefs is to be pre¬ vented by emollient clyfters, left an accumula¬ tion of faces in this putrid difeafe prove a new forties of corruption. At this time I have alfo ufed blifters, but without fuccefs. Upon the fir ft attack the whole head has been bliftered 3 but neither the Jtupor nor delirium were prevented. Opiates
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