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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![SCARLET FEVER. This fever is most commonly inflammatory, but sometimes either at its commencement, or in its pro- gress, symptoms of typhus appear. About the fourth day the face swells and spots of a florid red color appear, scattered through the skin, which at length run together, and after three days disappear; the scarfskin peeling off in branny scales ; in severe cases the nails peel off with the skin. It is not unfrequently succeeded by a dropsical swelling of the whole body. When the disease has symptoms of typhus fever, it appears like malignant quinsey, often the same affec- tion of the throat, when it is to be treated like the quinsey, or typhus. [See those Diseases.] Scarlet fever is distinguished from measles, by absence of cough, sneezing, flow of tears; the eruption is more diffused like a blaze, and not sensible to the touch. Treatment.—The first thing to be performed is to soak the feet in hot water, add a little salt to the water, give stimulating teas so as to bring on a per- spiration over the whole system; then give warm mustard tea until the patient vomits freely ; this must be done while the feet are in the water. When the patient is done vomiting give a glass of wormwood tea to correct the bile; then wash the feet in cold vinegar or spirits: take a portion of physic, and go to bed ; put a hot stone at the feet, keep the patient in a gentle perspiration for the space of four or six hours; then wash or rub the patient all over with cold vinegar , then dress in clean dry clothes. Mustard or hop poultice is a good application to the throat; a strip of the rind of pork has been found of o-reat service, by renewing it as often as it becomes heated. Take one pint of new rum, add to it three ounces of sulphur, shake it well together; dose, one table-spoonful three or four times a day ; in the inter- vals take of the composition tea to keep up a moisture upon the surface. [See American Remedies.] During convalescence the patient must avoid exposure to cold, and recruit his energies by the use of the bitter or restorative medicines; and a light, nourishing diet. 2*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21121096_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
