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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    1 [ 36 ] The attendants fhould be fteady, fober, and de¬ termined perfons ; but if (notwithftanding what has been faid) a fear of danger fhould deter the healthy from the office, perhaps they may be chofen from the flighted; infe£ted, or recovering patients. The flraw of their mattrefles, as well as their linen, fhould be frequently changed, and on no account dif¬ fered to remain in the room after Adding. The open¬ ings of the room fhould be fo regulated as to procure by night and day fuch a current of air as may be dif¬ fident to move the flame of a candle; and in wet or damp weather a fire of wood or peat fhould be made. Should any difagreeable fmell be perceptible, it would be advifeable frequently to fumigate the apart¬ ments with the fleam of camphorated vinegar; by burning cafcarilla bark on wood embers, or by firing fmall quantities of gunpowder,* obferving to flop the windows and other apertures during the operation. On admifflon, the infe&ed fhould be dripped and wafhed with warm water and foap, and the hofpital drefies delivered to them : their own cloaths fhould be carefully fumigated in the dove, and laid by for their ufe on recovery ; but if not worth preferving, they fhould be immediately burnt. During the abfence of the fick from their houfes, proper perfons fhould be appointed to fee them fmoked # Or, now, rather by producing the nitrous vapour—Ed. 1817. and