The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised.
- Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847
- Date:
- 1795
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 2<5 ] fpeaking, and every exertion of the throat, fhould be avoided, and the caufes fhould be removed. Cure. The patient fhould be bled pretty freely, and this may be repeated the next day if neceffary: he fhould take a dofe of falts as foon as pofiible, and then a blif- ter fhould be applied under the throat, of a Aim form, fo that it may reach from ear to ear : the bowels fhould be regularly kept open : before the tumour has become very confiderable, fifteen grains of ipecacuana will be of great fervice. In fuch patients as do not allow of bleeding, this may be the firit medicine. Warm water and vinegar fhould be infpired from a proper machine for the purpofe, or from a funnel put over a wooden bowl of water and vinegar, the mouth fhould be frequently gargled with ailringent wafhes, as fage tea and vinegar ; or alum-vinegar and honey, or deco&ion of oak bark and fait petre. Scarifications with a lancet are neceflary where there is danger of choaking ; and likewife to let out the matter, when the tumours have fuppurated. If the patient is liable to frequent returns of this af- fection, I would advife him to life the cold bath daily ; at any rate to wafli his neck, and habituate himfi-lf to wear nothing but a very thin ftock or ribband, inftead of a large neckcloth. CHAP. XI. PUTRID SORE THROAT. THIS diforder has for its caufe, fpecific contagion, and therefore attacks all ages and cohftitutions. Symptoms. It begins with chills, which are follow- ed by an intenfe and burning heat, a fwimming and pain of the head, a troublefome fenfation in the throat, ficknefs and vomiting, loofcnefs, inflamed and watery eyes, tumid and flufhed face, with a ftiffnefs of the neck, a fmall, frequent and irregular pulfe, fetid breath and a difagreeable tafte. Very foon, white facts appear on the glands each fide of the palate, and thefe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21164034_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
