Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / By William Buchan ... Adapted to the climate and diseases of America, by Isaac Cathrall.

William Buchan

Date:: 1797

Credit: Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / By William Buchan ... Adapted to the climate and diseases of America, by Isaac Cathrall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$» ae: Tio- or. FEVERS IN GENERAL. Ee points out the ufe of neces and other cooling liquors. “What i ” fo likely to abate the heat, remove fpafms and obftructions, pro- mote per{piration, increafe the quantity of urine, and, in forty: as drinking plentifully of water, thin gruel, or “any, other weak | liquor,. of which water is the bafis? The neceffity of diluting lis, quors is pointed cut by the dry tongue, the parched fin, ahs the» ‘burning heat, as well as by the unquenchable thirft of the pa tient. Many cooling liquors, which are extremely grateful to patients” 4 tinds, apple-tea, orange-whey, and the like. Maucilaginous liquors © might alfo be picpared from marfhmallow-roots, linfeed, ccaltgl _ when acidulated, are highly agreeable to the patient, and thould © never be denied him. , - At the beginning of a fever, the patient gener ally complains of \ great laflitude or wearinels, aad has no fies ation to move. This§ evidently fhows the propriety of keeping him ealy, and, if poflible, | in bed. Lying in bed relaxes the {pafms, abates the violence of § . the circulation, and gives Nature an opportunity of exerting all | her force to overcome the difeafe. The bed alone would often remove a fever at the beginning ; but when the patient ftruggles : with the difeafe, inftead of driving it off, he only fixes it the dee-— per, and renders it more dangerous. This obfervation is too often | verified in travellers, who ] happen, when on ajourney, to be feized™ with a fever. Thete anxiety to get home induces them to travel | with the fever upon them, which conduct feldom fails to render it 9 fatal. Aj . In fevers, the mind as alee body fhould be kept cata i Company i is {eldom agreeable tothe fick. Every thing that difturbs | the ite asi inereafes the difeafe; for rela reafon, every pers ed to fee nor ae an Ly shing that may in the lect affeét or ; difcome: ee his mind. a Though the patient in a ali has the preset inclination for) food in a fever is every way hurtful: It opprefes Nature, and in- Pe saan of sricones the Annis Hii Hal to feed the pee pacar raaiied apples, gruels, - and Kaos like. a Poor people, when any of their family are taken ill, run dire FC to their rich neighbours for-cordials, and pour wine, {pirits, into the patient, who, perhaps, never bad been accuftomed ‘fuch liquors when in -health. If there be. any degree | this conduét mutt increafei it, and if there be noge, this 1s 24$