Family physician : designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs / by John Frisbee.
- Frisbee, John.
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Family physician : designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs / by John Frisbee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![INTERMITTENT FEVER. Symptoms.—Cold stage.—Languor, listlessness. yawning and stretching; pulse small, frequent, and irregular ; breathing, anxious and short; the patient feels cold, first in the back, then over the whole body, followed by a universal shaking or ague. Hot stage.—After the shaking, flushes come on, succeeded by a steady high heat; soreness of the flesh ; acute sensibility; pain in the head, and flying pains over the whole body; pnlse quick, strong and hard; white tongue; great thirst; scanty high col- ored urine; costiveness. /Sweating stage.—At length a moisture appears, then a sweat, first in the face, and proceeding down- ward to the feet. The heat abates; the pulse be- comes slow, full and free; the bowels move; the breathing is free, and all the functions are restored to their natural standard. After an interval of twen- ty-four, forty-eight, or seventy hours, the ague and fever returns with nearly the same symptoms as be- fore, and this distinguishes intermittent from all other fevers, viz. a time»between the fit when the patient is free from fever. Causes.—Exposure to the vapors arising from stagnant waters after fatigue, or any thing which debilitates; as poor food, fear, anxiety, disappoint- ment, &c. Treatment.—See direction for fevers, with the ad- dition of a tea made of camomile, and dandelion roots and tops, and mustard tea. [See American Remedies and Syrups.] NERVOUS FEVER. Called also, Slow Fever, Long Fever, Mild Typhus Fever. Symptoms.—General languor and lassitude, alter- nate chills and flushes, dejection of mind, loss of ap- petite, confusion of thought, giddiness, pain in the head, aching pain in the back, limbs, and flying over the whole body ; nausea and vomiting; short, anx- ious breathing; pulse weak, quick, often intermitting; tongue at first white, moist, covered with slime, bor-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21121096_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
