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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    [ ^9 ] muttering delirium, and the abdomen difcoloured with purple petechias. The whole body was direcSed to be gently rubbed with olive-oil three times a day, and its operation to be aided by warm whey, with the foregoing diet and regimen. A copious fweat was at length, though not without difficulty, produced. By purfuing the method proportioned to his feeble ftate, the fymptoms began to diminilh, the purple fpots difappeared, the fever fubfided, and his fubfequent recovery was fpeedy and favourable beyond all expedlation. No fooner had he recovered, than the poor woman* who nurfed him in his illnefs, was feized with evident fymptoms of having caught the contagion. Powerful rubbing with olive-oil, together with the fame regimen, was inftantly had recourfe to, and with the fame happy fuccefs. Though one or two fuccefsful cafes are by no means fufficient to confirm its efficacy in the typhus fever, yet thefe, in addition to the numerous mftances in the plague adduced by Count Berchtold, It IS hoped may be fufficient to excite medical attennon to this fimple remedy, and to flimulate praamoners in the army and navy hofpitals to give It a fair and candid trial. As a prefervauve to the faculty, nurfes, and others, who are peculiarly expofed to the contagion, it would feem requiftte, on entering the fick-room, to guard the mouth and noilrils with a tea-fpoonful or