Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.

  • Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 91 ] V to .drinking of fpirits, after having, for two or three days, experienced great head-ach, giddi- nefs, heat and rednefs of the eyes, with fparks of light flying before them, was feized with haemorrhage from the nofe, and loft about •two pounds of blood, which relieved the fymp- tpms of eongeftion.'in the head. A woman, about fifty, who :had for feveral months laboured under phthifical. complaints, with ef- fufion into the cavity of the thorax, died this •month, v. , :' % * . -i'jfyril—Difeafes from erethifm were veiy •frequent during the prefent month ; as they generally arofe>in confequence of fatigue ip a •hot fun, and in *pepfons of a wTeakly frame of body, they wrere fpeediiy removed, by an in- fufion of Tome bitter,, aflifted by a few days reft. Many complained of head-ach, which appeared to depend upon an. affection of the liomach, and was relieved by emetics. Colic pains, attended with flight diarrhoeas, were alfo frequent; for the moft part, they Were pro¬ duced by acrid ingefta lodging in the prims vise, and required the ufe of evacuants. Con- vulJions, from dentition, occurred in feveral children this month, and in one inftance, proved fatal. Purges of calomel, opiates, and ^ • in