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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    sweating is not the effect of the amendment, rather than the cause of it; and ifso, itis still more questionable, whether sweating, produc- ed by art inthe beginning of the disease, would be attended with good effects. In all cases, where I have seen this sweating regimen adopted, especially when much ex- ternal heat has been applied, the practice has been obviously injurious. diaphoretics, which may be given with impu- nity, such as the ipecacuan, contrayerva, and the Virginian and Seneca snake roots, though they seldom or ever produce any sensible per- spiration till the disease has formed a crisis, and then the patient will perspire freely with- out their assistance. When stimulating reme- External heat. externally, to force a sweat, as it is called, the consequences are always bad at any period a Opium in some form or other is often used in Typhus, and in many instances and under certain circumstances, may be useful, but is by no means an universal remedy, nor can it Opium.
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