The modern practice of physic : exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostics, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates / by Robert Thomas, M.D., of Salisbury, England.

  • Robert Thomas
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1815
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    ^2 toms or inflammatory affection of the lungs are present; but in the advanced stages, or latter periods of most, and where there is raucli debility, this remedy should be adopted with due caution, and a care* ful consideration of the attendant circumstances. With a view to determine the circulation to the surface of the body, it will be right to resort to an early use of such medicines as possess this peculiar power. To excite a perspiration, it will in many cases be sufficient only to make the patient lie abed, and drink plentifully of diluting liquors; but should these simple means not prove efficacious, it then will be necessary to resort to more powerful agents. Neutral salts, * when taken into the stomach, soon produce a sense of heat on the surface of the body; and if it be covered close, and kept moderately warm, a gentle sweat is often readily brought on. These, therefore, being possessed of the power of deter- mining to the surface, are highly useful in fever, and may be prescribed as in the undermentioned forms. Emetic medicines, and particularly antimonials, given in small nauseating doses, have likewise a similar power of determining the circulation to the Hurlace of tlit; body, and of producing symptoms^ similar to those v/hich take place in the crisis of fever : these are therefore advisable. They may either be combined with those of the before mentioned class, or he given by themseh'^s.f From the uncertainty with which Dr. James's powder and the pulvis antimonialis act, the tartarised antimony may be considered as preferable in many cases. To increase the diaphoretic effect of these medicines, the patient should take frequent small draughts of some tepid liquor. Warm bathing, or fomenting the lower extremities, are reme- dies sometimes employed in fever to produce moderate sweating. K- Amnion. Carboniit. gr. x. Succi Linion. '^ fs. Aq. Meiith. Viriu. ,^j. Tinct. Lav. C^on.p. iu . x, Syr. AlthKre.gij. AI. -I. Hauitus. 'f]c. Succi I.inion. ^ jss. Potassa. SuhcarLon. ^i- vcl. q. s. Aq. Mcntli. ?j. -Fontan. ^iij. .Antim. Tarcarizit. gr. jss. ad ij. Symp. C-aryoph. gij. M. ft, Mistura cuius capiat Cochl. ij. mag-- na secuiida quaque hora. JJ. Liquor Ammon. Acetatis. Aquas Cinnam. aa ^ss. -Fontan. 3]. Villi Antimon. ill. xv. Spirit Athens Nitrici. ^ss. M. ft. Haustus 3tia qiiaq. hora sumendus. f B. Pulv. Antim. gr. j. ad ijj. Confect. Rosse gr. x. M. ft. Bolu;; 4tis horis sumendus. Vd ]J. Pulv. Jacob. Ver. gr. v. pro dos, Vd B.. Pulv. Ipecacuanhse gr. iij. Confect. Cort. Auvant. gr. x. M. ft. Bolus. Vd ]§). Antim Tartarizat. gr. jss. Aq. Fontan. ^vj. Syrup. Caryopii. ^ij. M. ft. Mistura cujus sumat Cochl. ij. magna 2da w/ ^tia hora.