A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

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

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    Cathartics are recommended in almost all febrile diseases, and in many cases, much de- pendance is deservedly placed upon them; their general use, however, should not be in- discriminately recommended. In this, as in similar cases, we should consider the necessi- ty of their administration, and whether they would probably produce the desired effect, not neglecting the particular means to be employed, and the extent to which we. con- sider ourselves justifiable in carrying those means. There are no remedies capable of doing much good, which under certain circumstan- ces and in certain doses may not do harm, and | am persuaded that powerful ones of this class are always i injurious. Costiveness often occurs in the commence- ment of this disease. This kind of costive- ness, is however, of a very different character from that which. is habitual with some indi- viduals, and which we so often meet with in stomach and bowel complaints, where the stools are unfrequent and the feeces hard and indurated. 59 Cathartics. Peculiar kind of costiveness. rs * ie Thee
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