An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates : with the method of preventing their fatal consequences. To which is added, an appendix, concerning intermittent fevers; and a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea. / by James Lind.

  • James Lind
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates : with the method of preventing their fatal consequences. To which is added, an appendix, concerning intermittent fevers; and a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea. / by James Lind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .from that oppression of spirits which be- fore distressed him; it is probable that he will recover; all these .being salutary ap- pearances. As to a crisis of the fever, it may hap- pen in different ways, without any respect to the critical days enumerated by the ancients. It sometimes happens by sweat. Bui the most favourable and certain, being the best termination of all fevers of this sort, is when it terminates in an eruption of small boils on the surface of the body. •A diarrhoea proves also, a favourable crisis. A bleeding from the nose, or from an artery, in the beirinnino* of the fever, has -soniellines saved the patient's life; but haemorrhages, when profuse, or happening towards the end of the disease, are fataL ]juboes, and a swelling of the parotid .glands, are unusual, ^though salutary svmptoms. Would the potio frigida, so much re- commended by the ancient physicians, and administered in fevers bv many of the moderns in many parts of Europe, be ser- viceable in this disease ?