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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    room, when the season of the year will admit of it, or by admitting the air in contact with the skin, by raising the bedclothes on one side of the bed, and bringing them down sud- denly again; in this way we can cause a cur- rent of cool air to pass over the body, which will conduct off the heat and wee refresh the patient. But the most effectual method of reducing Cold water. the temperature of the body is by the use of cold water, which may be taken internally, or applied externally. When persons, sick of this disease, desire cold water to drink, it should never be denied them—they should be allowed to drink ad hbitum. The quantity of heat abstracted from the body by the water which they will drink, however, is but small, and except in cases where, by its influence on the stomach, it produces perspiration, its ef- fects are very trifling. The only effectual method of cooling the body, in these cases, is by the use of cold wa- ter applied externally; by this means we can lessen the heat to any degree we please. Different physicians have adopted different
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