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
When the Operation of the Vomit is entirely over, the Sick should return
to the Use of the Ptisan; and great Care must be taken to prohibit them
from the Use of Flesh Broth, under the Pretext of working off a Purging
with it. The same Method is to be continued on the following Days as on
the first; but as it is of Importance to keep the Body open, he should
take every Morning some of the Ptisan No. 32. Such, as this would be too
expensive for, may substitute, in the room of it, a fourth Part of the
Powder No. 34 in five or six Glasses of Water, of which they are to take
a Cup every two Hours, beginning early in the Morning. Nevertheless, if
the Fever be very high, No. 32 should be preferred to it.
4, After the Operation of the Vomit, if the Fever still continue, if the
Stools are remarkably foetid, and if the Belly is tense and distended as
it were, and the Quantity of Urine is small, a Spoonful of the Potion
No. 10 should be given every two Hours, which checks the Putridity and
abates the Fever. Should the Distemper become violent, and very
pressing, it ought to be taken every Hour.
5, Whenever, notwithstanding the giving all these Medicines as directed,
the Fever continues obstinate; the Brain is manifestly disordered; there
is a violent Head-ach, or very great Restlessness, two blistering
Plaisters No. 36 must be applied to the inside and fleshy Part of the
Legs, and their Suppuration and Discharge should be continued as long as
possible.
6, If the Fever is extremely violent indeed, there is a Necessity
absolutely to prohibit the Patient from receiving the least Nourishment.
7, When it is thought improper, or unsafe, to give the Vomit, the
Patient should take in the Morning, for two successive Days, three Doses
of the Powder No. 24, at the Interval of one Hour between each: This
Medicine produces some bilious Stools, which greatly abate the Fever,
and considerably lessen the Violence of all the other Symptoms of the
Disease. This may be done with Success, when the excessive Height of the
Fever prevents us from giving the Vomit: and we should limit ourselves
to this Medicine, as often as we are uncertain, what ever the
Circumstances of the Disease and the Patient will admit of the Vomiting;
which may thus be dispensed with, in many Cases.
8, When the Distemper has manifestly and considerably declined; the
Paroxysms are more slight; and the Patient continues without any Fever
for several Hours, the daily use of the purging opening Drinks should be
discontinued. The common Ptisans however should be still made use of;
and it will be proper to give every other Day two Doses of the Powder
No. 24, which sufficiently obviates every ill Consequence from this
Disease.
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