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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    When, blood- letting should be practised. TREATMENT OF TYPHUS. quire bleeding, he stands in need of opium, arsenic, cantharides, or alcohol. It has been observed that in certain cases | of Typhus, there is great pain accompanied with a sense of fullness in the head, and in other cases, the patient complains of severe suffering in the chest, which is increased by a full inspiration. Under these circumstances, the loss of blood, to the amount of from twelve to sixteen ounces, often mitigates these troublesome symptoms, and probably may not only alleviate the pa- tient’s suffering, but may enable him to go through the disease with more safety. So far as I can judge from my own experi- ence, bleeding does not generally produce any considerable change in this disease; the pulse is not rendered slower by it, and after the faintness, if there is any produced by the operation, disappears, the heat 1s not percep- tibly diminished. In some cases, in which I have resorted to this expedient, I feel confident that the pulse became more frequent and the temperature
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