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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    [ 4° ] mon run of this fever, there will be no more danger than in moft others. When I firft joined the bark to the ferpen- tariay I intended to begin'with little, and to rife by degrees, but finding what was given at firft: anfwered fo well, I never altered the quantity -> which was of each ingredient three drachms in a pint of water boiled down to the half, with an addition of an ounce and an half of ftrong water; and this to be con- fumed in thirty fix hours or two days at moft. By means of this deco&ion, and the other remedies, not only the ftrength is fupported, but a diaphorefis is promoted. Even after the recefs of the fever, the fame medicine being continued in a fmaller quantity, not only ferv- ed by way of ftrengthner, but alfo as a pre¬ fer vative againft a relapfe, as long as the pa¬ tient remained in the hofpital. In one cafe the fever terminated in a fuppuration of the left parotid, which was opened and healed during the ufe of the fame medicine. The cordial confifted of a moderate quan¬ tity of a fpirituous water, but with a larger dofe
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