Advice to the people in general, with regard to their healthTissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Hygiene -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
2. After Bleeding, the Patient's Legs should be plunged into warm Water.
This is one of the Applications that affords the most speedy Relief; and
I have seen the Head-ach go off and return again, in Proportion to the
Repetition, and the Duration, of these Bathings of the Legs. When the
Disorder is highly dangerous, it will be necessary to treat the Patient
with _Semicupia_, or warm Baths, in which he may sit up to his Hips; and
in the most dangerous Degrees of it, even to bathe the whole Body: but
the Water in this Case, as well as in Bathings of the Feet, should be
only sensibly warm: the Use of hot would be highly pernicious.
3. Glysters made from a Decoction of any of the emollient Herbs are also
very effectual.
4. The Patient should drink plentifully of Almond Emulsion No. 4; of
Limonade, which is a Mixture of the Juice of Lemons and Water, (and is
the best Drink in this Disease) of Water and Vinegar, which is a very
good Substitute for Limonade; and of, what is still more efficacious,
very clear Whey, with the Addition of a little Vinegar. These various
Drinks may all be taken cold; Linen Cloths dipt in cold Water and
Vinegar of Roses may be applied to the Forehead, the Temples, or all
over the Head, which is equivalent to every other Application used upon
such Occasions. Those which are the most cried up, are the Juice of
Purslain, of Lettuce, of Houseleek, and of Vervain. The Drink No. 32 is
also serviceable, taken every Morning fasting.
Sec. 161. Cold Baths have sometimes recovered Persons out of such violent
Symptoms, from this Cause, as have been almost quite despaired of.
A Man twenty Years of Age, having been a very long Time exposed to the
scorching Sun, became violently delirious, without a Fever, and proved
really mad. After repeated Bleedings, he was thrown into a cold Bath,
which was also frequently repeated; pouring cold Water, at the same
Time, upon his Head. With such Assistance he recovered, though very
gradually.
An Officer who had rode Post for several Days successively, in very hot
Weather, swooned away, immediately on dismounting; from which he could
not be recovered by the ordinary Assistance in such Cases. He was saved
however, in Consequence of being plunged into a Bath of freezing Water.
It should be observed however, that in these Cases the cold Bath should
never be recurred to, without previous Bleeding.
Sec. 162. It is past Doubt, that if a Person stands still in the violent
Heat of the Sun, he is more liable to be struck with it, than if he
walks about; and the Use of white Hats, or of some Folds of clean white
Paper under a black one, may sensibly contribute to prevent any Injury
from the considerable Heat of the Sun; though it is a very incompetent
Defence against a violent Degree of it.
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