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An inquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of the croup ... / [Francis Home].

  • Francis Home
Date:
1765
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of the croup ... / [Francis Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 155 1 is beft to take blood at firft, with the lad* cet, fo that a fufficient quantity may foon be drawn off; and, afterwards, by leeches, appli¬ ed to the upper and fore part of the throar. Their orifices, when kept open by the appli¬ cation of warm wet-cloths, will allow the blood to ooze from them for many hours. It feems neceffary to keep the patient’s belly conftantly loofe, by fuch medicines as children will take ; for we ought to be ve« ty attentive not to fet them a-crying, as that mav fuddcnlv fuffocate the child. For this * * pUrpofe, I generally ufe tablets of magnefia alba, made palatable with fugar. Some of the cooling refolvent lairs, fuch as the chry~ ftalifed fal polychreft, diffolved in whey, will be of ftrvice,- provided the patient will peace¬ ably take them. Blisters, applied round the neck, af¬ ter the veffels are well emptied, do great fervice. They feem to do none, when ap¬ plied before this time; nay, if the (late is very inflammatory, muff do much hurt, from their violent ftimulus on the veffels. Emollient fomentations and cataplafms, ap¬ plied
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