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The duties of a regimental surgeon considered : with observations on his general qualifications, and hints relative to a more respectable practice.

Robert Hamilton

Date:: 1787

Credit: The duties of a regimental surgeon considered : with observations on his general qualifications, and hints relative to a more respectable practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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t 35* ] this country I have not feen a fingle emetic ventured on; and have heard only of two or three inftances of it. They create great irritability > for this #reafon I Ihould be afraid to venture on them. It is true, they open the pores of the furface, and relieve obftrudted perfpiration 5 but this may be done with more fafety without them. With refpeft to bleeding; the nature of this place and feafon, fufficiently cau- tion againft it. The country is woody; the leaves of the trees now pretty fully opened; hence they retain a greater quan- tity of moifture, and from their fhade im- pede the free circulation of the air; the rains for months pail alrnoft continual, and of courfe much ftagnating water on the ground. A conftant exhalation of vapour is daily more or lefs taking place; by this means the atmofphere is loaded with moif- ture : and as the fummer is now advancing, when the fun fnines forth, it is with vi- gour, which raifes the moifture dill more. This

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