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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    [ 42.] • - . taking nothing but their panado, wine, and the volatile cordial, every two hours, by turns. We have feen how inleparable a jlupor was from this fever, particularly in its low* ftate 5 and how apt this in the evening was to turn to a flight delirium, If this is all, as it is in the common courfe of the diftemper, no¬ thing need be done 9 but if the delirium is great, with a fubjultus tcndinum, and rednefs of the eyes, there is a prefumption of a true phrenitis. And agreeably to this, I have ob_ ferved, that at fuch times, wine apd other hot medicines aggravated the fymptoms ; And here it is that the blifters molt apparent¬ ly do fervice. But in the ordinary Jlupor, and funk pulfe of this fever, I have found them lefs efficacious than finapifms applied to the foies. We ffiall next confider the ftate of the patient after the diftemper is over, or changed into fome other fhape. If the fever termi¬ nates in the fuppuration of the parotid glands, there is only one caution needful; which is, that the abfcefs is to be opened as foon as it can be conjedured to contain matter, with¬ out
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