Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart.

  • Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1817
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Credit: Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [32 ] The fmoke of common wood or peat fire will not only lefien the violence of the infection, but is an ex¬ cellent protection againjl receiving it. Poor cottagers, therefore., who are obliged to continue in the neigh¬ bourhood of thedifeafe, will do well to make as much fmoke from fuch fubftances in their houfes as they can bear.* Hides for a General Undertaking. From ignorance of the fubtile nature of this dif- temper, and from incredible inattention, it is in fome places become fo univerfal amongft the poor, that there can be fmall hopes of its being eradicated by the mere efforts of individuals fo accuftomed to filth, and fo dif- couraged by mifery, as to be incapable of the neceffary exertions. In fuch cafes, it mu if furely be worthy the attention of the parilh officers to undertake a plan of general relief, inftead of thoughtlefsly crowding the infe£ted patients into workhoufes, with whole families that are yet in healthinftead of fending them from thence to daily labour amongft their comrades, loaded with peftilence, they muft at length be convinced that motives of intereft as well as of humanity recommend their adopting a fcheme fufficiently fpirited and general at once to flop the contagion. * Smoke from a wood or peat fire is good. It abounds in pyrilig- eeous acid, or empyreuoiatic vinegar.—H. D. That