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

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

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    / [ 3 ] abated; and the appetite became fome- what better* Ordered to take two drams of the cam¬ phorated tindture of opium*, formerly cal¬ led paregoric elixir, at bed-time, and half a dram of nitre three times a day. • November 15. She refted well with the opiate, and now fleeps well without it. The nitre agrees with her flomach ; her appetite is tolerably good $ fhe has had no return of pain, and makes no complaints. November 17. Difmiffed cured. CASE II. An acute Rheumatifm, of four Days Continue ance> cured chiefy by two Operations with the Lancet. x^pril 26, 1786. John Beaumont, a foldier, aged twenty, an in-patient. He was feized four days ago with rheumatic pains of the body and limbs, with general feverish lymptoms, attended with a bad appetite, and a bound belly. * Tin&ura opii camphoratum, Ph. Lgnd. 1788. B 2 Ordered
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