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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    affected but the heat was great and his thirst urgent. My visit was in the evening. The body was stripped, that is, the sheet which was thrown over him was removed, and _ his shirt divided down before so as to expose his body, and about a quart of cold water was applied by sprinkling it on with the hand. The sheet was then thrown over him; and the water applied as often as he became dry and the heat began to return. A little peruvian bark, mixed with some nitrate of potash, was all the medicine taken. Previous to this he had drank, every night, two quarts of some diluent drink, for several nights in succession. After the first application of the water, that parched sensation of the lips and mouth, which urged him to drink so much, abated, and he lay the whole night without any de- sire to drink. ‘The next day he was conva- lescent, and recovered without,medicine. I. B. a strong robust man, aged between thirty and forty, had been sick a fortnight when [first visited him heat great, and his mouth exceedingly parch- his pulse was frequent, his ed, so much so that he could not sleep but for Third case of. the same kind,
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