Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.
- Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] the patients recoverd by fmall dofes of opium, ■fomentations, &c. A cafe of gaftrodynia which occurred was cured by opium and the fpir. . sether. nitr. * October.—From the commencement of the prefent month the remittent fever gradually ' became lefs frequent, and towards the con- clufion, intermittents' were very general. Cafes of ophthalmia were alfo frequent: they appeared to arife from cold, and were always attended with confiderable effufion of tears, and inability to bear the light. In one in¬ fra nee the pain was fo fevere as to require large dofes of opium to moderate k, and a Uriel ufe of the antiphlogifric regimen, except bleeding. Cold faturnine lotions with opium, applied externally, were very ufeful in abating pain, and relieved the turgid ftate of the ve£ fels. Towards the end of the month, pains of'the bowels, refembling colic pains, became frequent; and in feveral inftances the conftipa- tion was fo obftinate, as to require repeated dofes of calomel, ol.’ricini, and fal. cathart. Fomentations to the abdomen afforded fpeedy but only temporary relief. A woman, after having been employed all jday in wafhing while exp^fed to a hot fun, was -H j feked](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30476732_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
