A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Does not fol- low from this opinion that we should ne- glect reme- dies. Treatment should be like that of other specific dis- eases. The existence of the disease alone does not show that me- dicines are re quired, morbid action has not ceased, nor the healthy one of the secreting surfaces been established, and a natural appetite restored, within the time above-mentioned. . It does not follow, because we have no ex- pectation of arresting the disease, that we are to neglect doing any thing. In cases of the other contagious diseases, which are destined to run a certain course, as the small-pox, we often prescribe early in the disease, and with evident good effect, but not. with a view to stop or cut off the disorder; for whatever we do, we expect it will pass through all its re- gular stages, and our prescriptions are calcu- lated only to render it milder and safer, and enable the patient to live through it. With the same views, I prescribe for Ty- phus, bothat its commencement and through the course of the disease; for Typhus has a natural termination like other diséases, which — arise from specific causes. On the other hand, it does not follow of course, that this disease in all cases requires remedies, or that a patient should necessarily take medicines because he has the disease.
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