Directions for medicine chests : with a treatise of the diseases most incident of seamen.
- Date:
- 1817
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Directions for medicine chests : with a treatise of the diseases most incident of seamen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![CURE.—Give a vomit [according to the direc- tions round each of them] three or four hours be- fore the fit is expected, and after its operation is over he should take a dose of salts or castor oil, or three or four of the purging pills, and work them off with any of the diluting drinks above mentioned. During the cold fit, and whilst the chill continues, do nothing more than continue at rest, and drink luke-warm chamomile tea. When the fever uomes on, take thirty drops of sweet spirit of nitre, or one of the fever powders, every two hours, and drink lemonade or toast water. When the sweating is nearly closed, and the patient is free from fever, he should immediately begin tak- ing a tea-spoonful of the bark every hour, in port wine or water; and if the bark purges, four or five drops of laudanum should be mixed with each dose; on the contrary, should it produce cobtiveness, live or six grains of rhubarb must be added to each dose. In order to prevent a return of the disorder, the use of the barks should be continued two or three times a day for eight or ten days after the patient has been free from fever. REMITTING BILIOUS FEVER. This fever being of a bilious nature, is known by much oppression at the stomach, with inclination to vomit, great pain in the head, and different parts of the body; a bitter taste with a white and sometimes brownish tongue, yawning, stretching, and giddi- ness, with alternate fits of heat and cold—a delirium is very common in this kind of fever—the pulse is generally a little hard, and sometimes full. When the fever decreases in violenc a remission is said to have taken place—the remission is commonly pre- ceded by a gentle moisture, after which the patient seems greatly relieved, but in a few hours the fever returns. These remissions occur at very irregular](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21115059_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
