Notes suggested by the Franklin-Heberden pamphlet of 1759 / by Henry K. Cushing.

  • Cushing, Henry K. (Henry Kirke), 1827-1910
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: Notes suggested by the Franklin-Heberden pamphlet of 1759 / by Henry K. Cushing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    does not succeed, it does no harm, and the patient is just in I2S4] the same state with those on whom it has never been attempted. The inoculated persons may be allowed to go out every day, till the symptoms of the fever begin to come on; the confining them to their chambers immediately after the inoculation is performed, will have no good effect on their general health, and often a bad one on their spirits, and is not attended, as far as I know, with any advantage. But they must still observe the caution before mentioned, of avoiding all fatigue of body or mind. The diet may be the same as in the preparation; and, if the patient has not a stool every day, one drachm or more of kuritive electuary may be taken to procure one. About the seventh day from the inoculation the patient gener- • ally begins to be heavy and languid, to feel weariness, headach, sickness, and the other forerunners of a fever; with all which he is so much oppressed as to find himself easiest in bed all the time that these symptoms continue, which is usually three days. During this time barley-water, thin gellies, sage or balm tea, toast and water, thin gruel, milk-porridge, or some such liquor is commonly all which can be borne; and there is no occasion to press the patient to take any thing else; but if his stomach would bear he might be allowed almost whatever he would choose, meat and broth excepted. Besides the complaints already mentioned, young children, just before the Small-pox appears, are apt to fall into convulsions; which seldom fail to occasion some alarm, though they are fre- quently forerunners of a favorable sort, and are very rarely attended with any real danger. Troublesome as these symptoms are, it is not often that rem- edies are required for any of them, except the vomiting; and this is sometimes so continual as greatly to weaken the patient both by the fatigue of it, and by its hindering of him from taking any nourishment. When this is the case, it will be found by experience that In the variolous (or small-pox) fever, as well as in other fevers, eight or ten grains of ipecacuanha will commonly check, if not entirely stop the vomiting, to the great relief of the patient. They all vanish of themselves on the third day when the erup- tion (or breaking out) begins. After which the patient may either lie a-bed, or sit up, just as his strength and inclination prompt him. He must continue to abstain entirely from all liquors stronger than small beer, and from broth and meat of every kind; but may nourish himself with milk, panada, choco- late, Sago, gruels of all sorts, bread, biscuits, puddings, tarts, greens and roots. It will be right for him to drink frequently of some warm diluting liquors, such as thin milk porridge, whey, BE