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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![ing the rule laid down for fevers, and strictly follow- ing them, you may break up the fever before it is seated. Diet.—Light nourishing. [See American Reme- dies, and see Syrups, No. 1, 2, 3, 4.] YELLOW FEVER. Many of the symptoms of this fever are common with tliis and the fevers above described. Those in some measure peculiar to yellow fever, seem to be pains in the eyeballs and lower part of the forehead; the saliva is viscid, large quantities of frothy bile is thrown up by vomiting; the eyes, face and breast of a deep yellow tinge; a peculiar delirium, with per- manent dilations of the pupils of the eyes; delusive remissions which promise speedy recovery. Soon, however, the disease returns with redoubled violence; the patient suddenly becomes giddy, loses his sight, or the eyes are much inflamed, watery, protruding and wildly rolling; anxiety, vomiting of yellow or black matter, sweats of a yellow color, and highly offensive; bleedings, severe pains, more especially in the testicles and calves of the legs ; livid spots in the skin; the patient in an agony throws out and draws back his extremities in violent succession; black fetid stools, hickup, sunk pulse, death. Such are the usual appearances; yet so irregular and so varied is this disease, that the most eminent physicians consider it only as a remittent fever, de- ranged as to its form, by appearing in subjects unac- customed to hot climates; so that if all would stay in their native climate this disease would disappear. Causes.—Exposure to noxious exhalations from swamps, rivers, lakes, ponds and marshes, or the filth of cities and towns, accumulated under a burn- ing sun. The poison is assisted by an irregular life, intemperance, exhaustion of the system from what- ever cause. Treatment.—By the rule laid down for typhus fever. Drink, a tea made of saffron will be found very beneficial in this fever. All the obstructions of the 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21121096_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
