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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    Notions of the existence of debility in Ty- phus, taught en In fact, I feel well convinced, that all pow- erful remedies or measures, adopted in the early stage of Typhous Fever are very lable to do harm, and that those patients, who are treated with them in the beginning, do not hold out so wellin the latter stages of the disease.* If it is determined that something must be done at or about the commencement of the disease, the question is, what that something shall be, and the first thing usually suggested is blood-letting. From, the time Dr. Cullen published his “First lines of the theory and practice of Phy- sick,” till very lately, students were generally taught to believe, that Typhous Fever was * Happening in company with a physician with whom I was slightly acquainted, he observed that he had adopted a new method of treating Typhus, which I was aware had been prevalent in the vicinity where he lived, and stated that it had proved very success- ful. Upon my inquiring into his peculiar mode of treatment, he informed me that it consisted in giving his patient milk and water, and nothing else, through the whole course of the disease, and af- firmed that he had treated quite a number of patients, and had not lost a single one since he had adopted this mode of treatment. I take this to be a confirmation of my opinion, that powerful re- medies are not properly used in this disease, unless called for by particular circumstances, and these circumstances are more rare than is generally supposed.
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