Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![*[ 33 ] heftic, a mixture of myrrh f, nitre* and fait of fteel, which he has prefcribed with f While I was preparing this little work for the prefs, I had the pleafure of hearing a very ufeful paper read to a fociety of phyficians by the ingenious Dr. Wil¬ liam Saunders, phyfician to Guy’s HofpitaL This paper (which, among other interefting practical obferva- tions, contains remarks on the ufe of myrrh in hedlic cafes) the Dodfor has flnce very obligingly put into my hands. It is with his leave, therefore, that I here give fome account of the refult of his experience on this fubjedt. It feems, that the practice of giving myrrh in hectic cafes has long been adopted in Guy’s Hofpital, as ap¬ pears from the books of Dr. Oldfield and others. Mr. Stead, apothecary to the hofpital, remembers it to have been the pradtice of a phyfician in Yorkfhire upwards of thirty years ago, to give myrrh and fperma ceti in fuch cafes ; and a bolus of thefe two ingredients has long had a place in the hofpital pharmacopoeia. Dr. Saunders obferves, that although he had indeed been very early taught to believe, that in cafes of hedtic the inflammatory diathefis chiefly prevails, and that the antiphlogiftic regimen and cooling remedies are prin¬ cipally to be depended on, while the reflnous medicines ought to be induftrioufly avoided 3 yet the fuccefsful exhU](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
