Sailor's physician, exhibiting the symptoms, causes and treatment of diseases incident to seamen and passengers in merchant vessels : with directions for preserving their health in sickly climates ; intended to afford medical advice to such persons while at sea, where a physician cannot be consulted / by Usher Parsons, M.D.

Usher Parsons

Date:: 1820

Credit: Sailor's physician, exhibiting the symptoms, causes and treatment of diseases incident to seamen and passengers in merchant vessels : with directions for preserving their health in sickly climates ; intended to afford medical advice to such persons while at sea, where a physician cannot be consulted / by Usher Parsons, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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OF ACUTE OR INFLAMMATORY FEVER. SYMPTOMS. It commences with general weariness and anxiety, succeeded by dizziness, chills, and pains over the whole body, but more particularly in the head and back. These symptoms are followed by redness of the face, throbbing of the temples, great restlessness, intense heat, unquenchable thirst and nausea. Light is offensive, the skin is dry and parched, the tongue becomes of a scarlet colour at the sides and furred with white in the middle ; the pulse is full, hard, and quick; the urine red and scanty, and the body costive. When blood is drawn, it exhibits a yellowish or buffy crust on its surface. When the disease is not arrested at the commence- ment, it usually goes through its course in about fifteen days and terminates critically, either by a perspiration, diarrhoea, bleeding at the nose, or the deposit of a copious sediment in the urine. In some instances it however terminates fatally. High fever with stupor and delirium denotes danger, but picking the bed-clothes, twitching of the tendons and invol- untary evacuations portend death. CAUSES. Exposure of the body to sudden alterations of temperature, particularly to cold and moisture after being heated ; intemperance ; violent exercise.

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