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
8, If there be a great Nauseousness at Stomach, with a Bitterness in the
Mouth, give the Powder No. 35, which brings up a copious Discharge of
glewy and bilious Humours.
9, There is very little Occasion to say any thing relating to the
Patient's Food, in such a Situation. Should he ask for any, he may be
allowed Panada, light Soup, Bread, Soups made of farinaceous or mealy
Vegetables, or a little Milk.
Sec. 197. By the Use of these Remedies the Symptoms will be observed to
lessen, and to disappear by Degrees; and finally Health will be
re-established. But if the Patient should long continue weak, and
subject to Terrors, he may take a Dose of the Powder No. 14, thrice a
Day.
Sec. 198. It is certain that a Boy, in whom the raging Symptom of This
Disease had just appeared, was perfectly cured, by bathing all about the
wounded Part with Sallad-Oil, in which some Camphire and Opium were
dissolved; with the Addition of repeated Frictions of the Ointment No.
28, and making him take some _Eau de luce_ with a little Wine. This
Medicine, a Coffee-Cup of which may be given every four Hours, allayed
the great Inquietude and Agitation of the Patient; and brought on a very
plentiful Sweat, on which all the Symptoms vanished.
Sec. 199. Dogs may be cured by rubbing in a triple Quantity of the same
Ointment directed for Men, and by giving them the Bolus No. 33. But both
these Means should be used as soon as ever they are bit. When the great
Symptom is manifest, there would be too much Danger in attempting to
apply one, or to give the other; and they should be immediately killed.
It might be well however to try if they would swallow down the Bolus, on
its being thrown to them.
As soon as ever Dogs are bit, they should be safely tied up, and not let
loose again, before the Expiration of three or four Months.
Sec. 200. A false and dangerous Prejudice has prevailed with Regard to the
Bites from Dogs, and it is this--That if a Dog who had bit any Person,
without being mad at the Time of his biting, should become mad
afterwards, the Person so formerly bitten, would prove mad too at the
same Time. Such a Notion is full as absurd, as it would be to affirm,
that if two Persons had slept in the same Bed, and that one of them
should take the Itch, the Small-Pocks, or any other contagious Disease,
ten or twelve Years afterwards, that the other should also be infected
with that he took, and at the same Time too.
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