Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / [Francis Home].

  • Francis Home
Date:
1682 [i.e. 1782]
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / [Francis Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21 complaint, except vertigo. A fweat ap- peared yefterday foon after he took his medicine. 18th, Fever gone; fo the tindlure was given up. An alteration fo fudden, after taking this medicine, leaves fome doubt, whether or not this fa- lutary change was owing to it. Exper. IV. Aug. 28. Janet Craig, 25, had been affedted with a typhus for three weeks. She had taken fome dofes of tart, emet. which had vomited, opened her body, and fweated her. On the 23d day of the fever, when the pulfe was 100, R tindt. canth. gtt. x. mucil. g. Arab. aq. font, aa unc. fs. M. cap..ter in die. 24th, pulfe 100, no difficulty of paffing urine. Slept better. R tindt. canth. gtt. xv. muc. g. Arab. aq. font, aa unc. i. M. fiat hauft. cap. ter in die. 25th, pulfe 90, third: di- miniffied ; tongue moift; lefs confufion of head. 26th, pulfe 80, and ftronger; head-ach better. 27th, Fever gone. Here the cantharides appear, without doubt, to have been attended with good effedls. Exper. VII. April 7, 1774. Margaret Salmon, 18, had been ill of a typhus for five days. She had a vomit, blifter, and