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
Sec. 213. But if the Fever should be strong, the Pulse hard, and the Pain
of the Head and Loins should be violent, he must, 1. immediately lose
Blood from the Arm; receive a Glyster two Hours after; and, if the Fever
continues, the Bleeding must be repeated. I have directed a Repetition
of it even to the fourth Time, within the two first Days, to young
People under the Age of eighteen; and it is more especially necessary in
such Persons as, with a hard and full Pulse, are also affected with a
heavy Drowsiness and a _Delirium_, or Raving.
2. As long as the Fever continues violently, two, three, and even four
Glysters should be given in the 24 Hours; and the Legs should be bathed
twice.
3. The Patient is to be taken out of Bed, and supported in a Chair as
long as he can tolerably bear it.
4. The Air of his Chamber should frequently be renewed, and if it be too
hot, which it often is in Summer, in Order to refresh it, and the
Patient, the Means must be employed which are directed Sec. 36.
5. He is to be restrained to the Ptisans No. 2 or 4; and if that does
not sufficiently moderate the Fever, he should take every Hour, or every
two Hours, according to the Urgency of the Case, a Spoonful of the
Mixture No. 10; mixed with a Cup of Ptisan. After the Eruption, the
Fever being then abated, there is less Occasion for Medicine; and should
it even entirely disappear, the Patient may be regulated, as directed, Sec.
212.
Sec. 214. When, after a Calm, a Remission or Intermission of some Days, the
Process of Suppuration revives the Fever, we ought first, and
especially, to keep the [54] Body very open. For this Purpose, _a_ an
Ounce of _Catholicon_ should be added to the Glysters; or they might be
simply made of Whey, with Honey, Oil and Salt. _b_ Give the Patient
three times every Morning, at the Interval of two Hours between each,
three Glasses of the Ptisan No. 32. _c_ Purge him _after_ two Days, with
the Potion No. 23, but on that Day he must not take the Ptisan No. 32.
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