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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    Laxatives. TREATMENT OF TYPHUS. The stools in this disease, except at its commencement, when there is generally an accumulation in the great intestines, are al- ways liquid and possess a peculiar colour and odour. The costiveness, therefore, consists only in the unfrequency of the discharges, and not in If a strong drastic cathartic be administer- ed, it is often followed by a diarrhoea, which, though not always injurious when moderate, is always liable to become so. Ihave never known a patient die of Typhus whose bowels were slow and required laxa- disease. Laxatives therefore and not purges are required in this affection; and the milder they are, if they have the effect to excite the bowels to throw off their contents, the better, © and even these should not be used too freely. If the bowels are shut up too long, their con- tents become offensive to the intestines, stimu- . late them violently and a diarrhoea is more likely to follow, than if the bowels had been excited by a gentle laxative.
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