A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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    Practitioners differ with re- gard to its pro- priety. TREATMENT OF TYPHUS. Some of them have advised this practice in certain cases, where there appeared to -be more than an ordinary degree of excitement in some particular organ, in the brain or langs for example, while others have recommended it, simply because the disease was 'l’'yphus, without waiting for any particular symptom, or set of symptoms to indicate its necessity. The practitioners of medicinein New-En- gland, have been divided on this subject; and while one part have become converts to the doctrine of blood-letting to a high degree in this affection, the other have condemned it in toto, and, as though opposition had produc- ed a kind of reaction on their part, they have had recourse to the most powerful stimulants both internally and externally, such as opium, wine, alcohol, and the most acrid stimulants, as Cayenne pepper, arsenic, &c. Indeed, in- dividuals of this latter class have carried their prejudices to such an extent, as even to boast of having made their patients swallow three pints of strong brandy, accompanied with large doses of laudanum and cantharides.
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