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
3, We should endeavour to allay the violent Efforts to vomit, by giving
every two Hours a Spoonful of the Mixture No. 48.
4, The Sick should drink plentifully, in very small Quantities, very
often repeated, of an appeasing, diluting, refreshing Drink, which tends
at the same Time to promote both Stools and Urine. Nothing is preferable
to the Whey No. 49, if it can be had immediately: if not, give simple
clear Whey sweetened with Honey, and the Drinks prescribed Sec. 298, Art.
3.
5, The Patient is to be put into a warm Bath, and kept as long as he can
bear it, repeating it as often daily too, as his Strength will permit.
6, After Bleeding, warm Bathing, repeated Glysters and Fomentations, if
each and all of these have availed nothing; the Fume or Smoak of Tobacco
may be introduced in the Manner of a Glyster, of which I shall speak
further, in the Chapter on Persons drowned.
I cured a Person of this Disease, by conveying him into a Bath,
immediately after bleeding him, and giving him a Purge on his going into
the Bath.
Sec. 319. If the Pain abates before the Patient has quite lost his
Strength; if the Pulse improves at the same Time; if the Vomitings are
less in Number, and in the Quantity of the Matter brought up; if that
Matter seems in a less putrid offensive State; if he feels some
Commotion and Rumbling in his Bowels; if he has some little Discharge by
Stool; and if at the same Time he feels himself a little stronger than
before, his Cure may reasonably be expected; but if he is otherwise
circumstanced he will soon depart. It frequently happens, a single Hour
before Death, that the Pain seems to vanish, and a surprising Quantity
of extremely foetid Matter is discharged by Stool: the Patient is
suddenly seized with a great Weakness and Sinking, falls into a cold
Sweat, and immediately expires.
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