Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler.

  • Thomas Fowler
Date:
1795
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r ] be acknowledged, that from the febrile fymptoms attending the difeafe, they will fometimes difagree, and fail of procuring reft, and therefore muft be repeated or not, ac- cording to their effects. In the intervals between the operations of the fadorifics, in the treatment of the acute rheumatifm, either nitrous medicines, or the common neutral mixture, prepared with the fixed vegetable alkali and lemon juice or dif- tilled vinegar, may generally be adminiftered three or four times a day with advantage. When the febrile fymptoms are gone off, the pains are either vanifhed or become very trifling, and the patient is debilitated, it will be proper to adminifter, two or three times a day, a dofe of fome preparation of fteel, pcruvian bark, gentian, or other tonic me- dicine, in order to ftrengthen the fyftem. The regimen in the treatment of the acute rheumatifm muft always be antiphlo- giftic; the diet ought to. be of the vege- table kind, fuch as farinaceous fubftances, the products of the kitchen garden, ripe fruits, milk, tea, &c. which are the pro- pereft articles for the patient's fupport. He