Some observations on the present epidemic catarrhal fever, or influenza : chiefly in relation to its mode of treatment. To which are subjoined, historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782 / By Richard Pearson.
- Richard Pearson
- Date:
- 1803
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Credit: Some observations on the present epidemic catarrhal fever, or influenza : chiefly in relation to its mode of treatment. To which are subjoined, historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782 / By Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and, along with its beneficial action upon the bowels, promotes a flow of urine; a mode of operation which contributes in no small degree to the removal of the fever. Where the bowels are not readily acted upon by the medicines above-mentioned, it will be ne- cessary to have recourse to clysters; which, in- deed, are almost indispensable in the case of children. In the course of this disorder, the calomel should be repeated 2 or 3 times, without the antimonial,* and in smaller doses. To promote expectoration, squill, in some form or other, will now be proper. It may be joined with the aq. amnion, acetat. and with aether; but all oily medicines, and the common pectoral emulsions, are improper. Howsoever salutaty a moisture on the skjn may be on the ] st or 2d day of the attack, it is not desirable, after that period, to excite a perspi- ration by keeping the patient in bed, and giving him strong sudorific medicines and warm liquors, as in the case of a common catarrh. The heat, * Without the antimonial, if there be no peripneumonic affection; if there be, with it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21363845_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
