Volume 1

A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle.

Date:: 1751

Credit: A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ 5° ] Dilution ; fupporting his Spirits, at the fame * Time. vvi>h moderate warm Broths ; and for feme Honrs after, giving great Quantities of Sage Tea, or the like 5 and, laftly, by throw¬ ing in a gentle cooling PurgCy the Cure has been compleatcd. Others again without Bleedings by only keeping the Patient fome Time in moderate Sweats^ and then giving a gentle cooling PurgCy have been perfediy re¬ covered : Some again, when the Parotids have appeared in the State of the Difeafe ; by negledting the Swelling, and fubftituting moderate Bleedings and Purgings, have done well. Many are the In dances of fiicb like Cures that we find in our Books of Phyfic. The Records of the Plague inform us, that the Plague is not always juddenly generated ; but that it oftentimes comes on : And this is agreeable to the unanimous op- nton of the beji and meji judicious Phyficians \ who obferve, there muft be fome Time for breeding a Diftemper, and that Difeafes do not come upon Men of a fudden; So that in Times ofPeftilence too, there is generally early Notice given of the approaching PJneJs. There is Time therefore 10 recoiled, and Condder the feveral Methods, to be met with in the Records of Plagues together with the Things which proved hurtful or beneficial j and to compare the then reigning Conliitution and particular Genius of the Plague^ from its Symptoms and Ajpearances; ' Which$