A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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    In other specific diseases, we proceed on the principle of withholding our remedies unless they are called for by particular circumstan- ces, and thus many cases of measles, hooping- cough, and other contagious diseases go through their course to their natural termina- tion without medicine. In cases where the disease is going on regu-. Where the course of the larly in its course, without any symptom de- disease is re- gular, active remedies pro- bably injuri- ous, | noting danger, and without any local distress, it is presumable that medicines, especially powerful ones, would be more likely to do harm than good. Although Typhous Fever _is a more formidable disease than measles or hooping-cough, yet there are many mild cases, and in such cases, I apprehend that the use of powerful means, with a view of curing the dis- ease, is liable to do great mischief. I have seen many cases, where persons in Consequences of an emetic in the early stages of this disease were moping {iiprryNs6° about, not very sick, but far from being well, who, upon taking a dose of tartrite of antimony with the intention of breaking up the disease, : have been immediately confined to their beds. “db
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