Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers and the pulmonary consumption: to which is added a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / [Moses Griffith].

  • Griffith, Moses, 1699-1785.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers and the pulmonary consumption: to which is added a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / [Moses Griffith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C ;*7 ] ' . .. ilance of this kind, one of which was fo remarkable, as to feem worthy of being related. > ' **► THE DAUGHTER of afea captain, between lix and feven years of age, had been ill feyeral weeks; and had taken, during that time, many medicines, and affes milk, without effect. She had a burning he£lic fever, a dry cough, (which in the night was almoft continual) a quick pulfe, and a very hot and dry ikin; and (lie was fo weak and emaciated, that there fcemed fcarce any hopes of her recovery. On being confulted, I ordered her medicines for feveral days; but finding none that relieved thole alarming complaints, I advifed, that in the evening die fhould be put into a bath, of fuch a degree of warmth as to feel pleafant to her; and remain in it, only five or fix minutes. She found immediate relief from it, fiept well that night without an anodyne ; and next day appeared ftronger, and in better fpirits. The bath was re¬ peated the next night but one; and was then or- derd to be continued every night, or every other night, as oceafion (hould feem to require : and the time of (laying in it was encreafed, by degrees, to ten or twelve minutes. She took, at the fame time, fome medicines for her cough and fever, and became peffe&ly well; but it is my opinion,, that her recovery was chiefly owing to the warm bath. APPEN-