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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    , [ 9? ] : in particular the warm bath, were attended *with the moll beneficial effects. A cafe -of fever, which made its appearance In a very inlidious manner, and was accompanied in its -courfe with bilious vomiting, fpafms and great •debility, ended fatally on the fifth day. .Two cafes of epiftaxis occurred ; the one, in a per¬ son who had marked fymptoms of phthifis; Ihe other, arifing merely from temporary congeftion. > '■* May.—The complaints of this month were few in number, and flight, and may be confi- dered, rather as the fequelae of difeafes of Tormer months. Four cafes of anafarca, fuc- 'Ceeding long continued intermittents, were cured by a courfe of mercury and fquill, to- •gether with the ufe of corroborant remedies.- It may be obferved, that thefe patients bore - the ufe of mercury well, a falivation not being fpeedily produced. In one inftance,~the '; Infuf. Nicotian, aefted as a very powerful diu- •retie ; but though given in fmall dofes, it was * difeontinued, on account of the vertigo and tem¬ porary lofs of vifion which it produced. A few flight cafes of ophthalmia occurred, which w:ere prefently removed by cold faturnine lotions. Some cafes of dyfentery appeared this month.