Advice with respect to health : extracted from Dr.Tissot.
- Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Advice with respect to health : extracted from Dr.Tissot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![recommendation of the Peruvian bark, as, “ the only infallible remedy either for mortifications or intermitting fevers.” He really feems tranfpor- ted with the theme, as do many phyficians befide. I objc6t to this, i. It is not “ an infallible reme- dy,’ either for one or the other : no, not even when adminifter’d by a very fkilful phyfrcian, after evacuations of every kind, I have known pounds of it given, to flop a mortification : yet the mortification fpread, till it killed the patient. I myfelf took fome pounds of it when I was young for a common tertian ague. And that after vo- miting. Yet it did not, would not effefii a cure. And I fhould probably have died of it, had I not teen cured unawares by drinking largely of le- monade. I will be bold to fay, from my perfonal knowledge, there are other remedies, which more feldom fail,. I believe, the bark has cured fix agues in ten : I know. Cobweb pills have cured nine in ten. The bark has often flopped a morti- fication : and foinctiines it has failed. But I could never learn that Dr. Piper’s method [of EfTex ] has tailed in a fingle in fiance : though one of his patients was of a grofs habit, and above fixty years old, and another, above ninety. Let them philofophizc upon thefe things who pleafe ; I urge plain matter of faff. I objeft, fecondiy, that as it is far from being an infallible remedy, fo it is from being a fafe one. Not that I affirm, as Dr. Tiffot fuppofes the objeffors do, that it occa- fions afthmas or dropfies. I do not think this at all improbable : however I have not obferved it. But this I affirm in the face of the fun ; it fre- quently turns an intermitting fever into a con- lumption. By this means a few years fince one of the mofl amiable young woman I have known loft her life : and fo did one of the healthicft young ruen in Yorkfhire. I could multiply inftancesjbut I need](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28524809_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
