Preservative plan; or, hints for the preservation of persons exposed to those accidents which suddenly suspend or extingui[s]h vital action, and by which many valuable lives are prematurely lost to the community / by A. Fothergill.

  • Anthony Fothergill
Date:
1798
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Credit: Preservative plan; or, hints for the preservation of persons exposed to those accidents which suddenly suspend or extingui[s]h vital action, and by which many valuable lives are prematurely lost to the community / by A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ ] 1. By entirely cutting off communication with infe£led bodies, as in a well-conducted lazaretto. 2. By carefully purifying alf goods, veftments, and utenfils, expofed to the contagious principle. 3. By guarding againft contagion being re-imported from abroad, by a more ftridt regulation of quarantines and lazarettoes. 4. By convalefcents ufing a tepid bath and fumigations repeatedly before they come abroad. 5. By impregnating the fick room with its entire contents, including bedding, clothes, and utenfils, with the fumes of the nitrous acid, evolved from nitre, by pouring thereon vitriolic acid over a gentle heat, as defcribed by Dr. C. Smyth. This procefs, however, demands caution, otherwife the pungent acid fumes may prove very injurious to, perfons of weak lungs, efpecially as the doors and, windows require to be kept Ihut. 6. The new method of prevention, which has been employed of late in the Plague-Hofpital at. Smyrna, for the prevention and even cure of that difeafe in its firft ftage, is too interefting to be palled over in filence. The remedy, then, as communicated by the humane and truly benevolent Leopold Count Berchtold, confifts fimply in powerfully rubbing the whole body with tepid ollve-oll. The quantity of oil necelTary for fuch application may amount to half a pint or upwards. This operation, if performed properly and v^ith expedition.