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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![I E 46 ] is more painful, or more affecfted by a deep infpiration than the reft, a feton in the fide, as near as can be to the feat of the inflammation, will be an ufeful auxiliary. I have feen it evi¬ dently of great ufe in feveral cafes, I have already had occafion to {peak of opiates among the reme¬ dies for the cough that precedes Phthifis ; but the ufe of medicines of this fort is much more general. They are given in every period of the difeafe, to quiet the cough, and to procure fleep, and in the advanced ftage of it to palliate the diarrhoea. In both thefe refpecfts they have done infinite mifchief. In the inflammatory ftage of the malady they increafe the difpofition to inflammation ; in the pu¬ trid hectic they increafe the colliqua¬ tive fweats. They fhould therefore be pre-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
