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
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    der indented with the teeth, afterwards dry, brown, and tremulous, little thirst, urine pale, low muttering delirium. As the disease advances, the heat becomes intense, tongue dry, brown, and morbidly red; delirium with suffused redness of the eyes, flushed countenance, throbbing of the arteries of the neck and temples, urine scanty, high colored and fetid; sometimes drenching sweats, profuse diarrhoea, starting of the tendons, lethargic sleep, involuntary evacuations, cold extremities, convulsions. Such is usually the progress of this disease. Sometimes, however, the patient gradually, almost imperceptibly, sinks; no threatening symptoms, no anxiety, no pain, or dis- tress ; yet in such cases the arteries are seen to trem- ble or throb under the chin, and a dark rose or peony colored spot appears on one of the cheeks, while the limbs are apt to be cold. Favorable symptoms.—About the seventh, four- teenth, or twenty-first day, the tongue peeling and becoming moist, showing a conical point and vigor of motion when put out and quickly retracted ; moist skin, gentle diarrhoea, pulse becoming slow and full; sores about the mouth and nose. Unfavorable.—When no crisis appears on one of the above days ; all of the symptoms enumerated in the second, or advanced stage. Cause.—Exposure to a damp, cold atmosphere, depressing passions, fear, grief, anxiety, exhaustion from fatigue, more especially in persons of delicate habit, accompanied with irritability and sensibility, of sedentary life, of poor living and indolence. Dis- tinguished from malignant typhus, by its attack being more gradual, the succession of symptoms being less rapid, less urgent. [See Malignant Ty- phus.] From inflammatory fever by the pulse being quick, weak and feeble. Treatment.—[See Typhus Fever.] Diink freely of composition powders, poured off from the dregs. If there should be pain in the stomach, take a tea- spoonful of hot drops as often as needed. By observ-