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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    Beside giving directions for the use of medicines, it is important that we should di- rect, what may be called the general manage- ment of the patient. When an individual is first taken sick with Typhous Fever, we should expect a disease of considerable length, and make our arrange- ments accordingly. If the thing is practica- ble, he should be kept ina spacious room, the larger the better. His bed should be of straw or husks, especially if it is in the warm season; and it should not be placed in the corner, but _ brought out into the room. We should con- trive to have a current of air pass over the bed by means of doors and windows. It is well to have a chimney and fire-place in the room, and in the night when the air is very still, (though the weather should be warm,) a small fire kindled with a little dry wood, so as to cause a current of air up chimney, and by that means often change the atmosphere of the room, will be found of service. In the warm season of the year, the windows should be kept open nightand day. All the furniture 83 General direc- tions,
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