Volume 3

Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen ... / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Thomas Trotter
Date:
1804
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Credit: Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen ... / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~*~ ba] A tal al A Ca) on a 6A na #% xn «a a AOR - a aw a A nan n ee 6¢ € g¢ nr CONTAGION ann TYPHUS. 203 fome of our carpenter’s crew, and other two men while in harbour, in that thip. < JT mutt confefs,.in the firft inflance, I did not it appears fince to have originated from. And the fymptoms indicating more of an infamma- tory difpofition than otherwife, tended further fhort time, it afflumed a very different form, putting on decidedly the typhoid type, without any particular affection of the pulmonary organs, except that which fo often attends this fever, a fenfe of ftri€ture acrofs the breaft. 3 «© There were evidently in the firft. cafes that pain in the breaft or fide, laborious refpiration, and diftreffing cough, attended with expeCtoras tion of mucus, headach, and thirft: the pulfe was generally hard and quick, tongue white: thefe induced me to bleed at the commence-~ ment, to raife a diaphorefis by antimonials, and to apply a blifter over the feat of the pain. This treatment: fucceeded with two of the four, and would in all probability with the reft, had they before they applied. All thofe who followed, as I before obferved, were of the genuine treatment. : | ** When they firft complained, an emetic was adminiltered, which fometimes operated by ftool; if not, a laxative was given, as foon as convenient after... Where great heat, accom-- panied with thirit exifted, 1 gave aq. ammon. | ail evs - of acetate