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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![was bitten, a dull pain. The fear fwells, in- flames, burfts open, and weeps out a fharp, fetid, and fomewhat bloody humour. At the fame time the patient becomes fad ; he feels a kind of infenfibility, and general numbnels ; and alinoft inceffant coldnefs ; a difficulty of breathing ; a continual anguifh. and pains in his bowels. His pulfe is weak and irregular, his fleep refllcfs, and confufed with ravings ; and with terrible frights. His difeharges by flool are often irregular, and fmall cold fweats appear at fhort intervals. Some- times there is alfo a flight pain in the throat. Such is the firft degree of this diflemper. § 135. In its fccond degree, the patient is af- flicted with a violent thirit and a pain in drink- ing. Soon after this he avoids a]l drink, par- ticularly water, and, w’ithin fome hours abhors it. This horror becomes fo violent, that the bringing water near his lips, or into his fight, the very name of it, or of any other drink; the fight of objeCls, which have any refemblance of water, afflifts him with extreme anguifh. Yet he con- tinuesto fwallow {though not without great diffi- culty) a little bread or meat, and fometimes a little foup. Some even get down the liquid medicines that are preferibed, provided there be •no appearance of water in them. Their urine becomes thick and high coloured, and fometimes there is a fuppreffion of it : the voice cither grows hoarfe, or is almoft entirely abolifhed. They are troubled with fhort deliriums, which are fometimes mixed with fury. It is at fuch times that they i'pit at all around them ; that they attempt alfo to bite. Their looks are fixed, as it were, and fomewhat furious, and their vifage frequently red. It is common for thefe miferable patients to be fenfihle of the approach of their raging fit, and to conjure the by-ftanders to be upon their guard. Many of them never have any inclination to bite. The incicafing anguifh ,and pain become incxprcflible ; they earnellly \v llh](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28524809_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
