Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Samuel Foart Simmons
Date:
1780
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \, l\ ' , , ' ' » ■ i [ 71 ] may perhaps be difcouraged from re¬ peating it. In general, the moment the emetic has reached the ftomach it is thrown up again. The patient muft then fwallow another half pint of wa¬ ter, which is like wife fpeedily rejected ; and this is commonly fufficient to re¬ move the naufea. For the method of giving a draught of water previous to the exhibition of the vitriol, I am indebted to a fliort paper pubMied fome years ago in the Medical Magazine by Dr. Robert Brookes, in which he recommends a folution of blue vitriol as an emetic in certain affeftions of the ftomach, and in the whooping-cough. Dr. Marryat, in his New Practice of Phyfic, prefcribes with great freedom what he calls the dry vomit, from its being
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