A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / by Francis Balfour, M.D. Surgeon in the service of the hon. East India Company.

  • Balfour, Francis, -1818
Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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Credit: A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / by Francis Balfour, M.D. Surgeon in the service of the hon. East India Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    nicated my obfervations on this fubjed: to Sir John Pringle, in 1772. In that Treatife I related my pradice at large, and drew from it the following conclu- fions; which I have had no reafon fince to retracfl. i/?, That the bark [c] in powder is a certain cure for the putrid remittent of Bengal, commonly called the Pucca Fe- ver. 2^//, That there is no fymptom what- ever that ought to prevent it from being exhibited, after the bile is duly evacuated. 2^dly^ That it may be given with fafety at all periods of the difeafe; whether in the remiffion or exacerbation {d). /\.thly^ That, Vx^hen it is rejedled by the ftomach, opium will in all cafes make it fit quietly, and in fuiEcient quantity to flop the fever, 5//j/?', That, {c) The deco6tion cannot be depended on. {d) This becomes abfolutely neceffary when you hap- . pen to be called too lat^: for after the third or fourth day^ the fits arc protra6lcd io long, as to run into one another; and when this is the cafe, whoever waits for a complete rc- roi0ion,'will find hlmfelf tvofully dirappoi.nted.