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. 49. He must directly, from the first Seizure in this State, be put
upon a Regimen, and his Drink must never be given cold. It should either
be the Barley Water No. 2, the Almond Emulsion No. 4, or that of No. 7.
The Juices of the Plants, which enter into the last of these Drinks, are
excellent Remedies in this Case; as they powerfully attenuate, or melt
down, the viscid thick Blood, which causes the Inflammation.
The Advantage of Bleeding:
As long as the Fever keeps up extremely violent; while the Patient does
not expectorate sufficiently; continues raving; has a violent Head-ach,
or raises up pure Blood, the Glyster No. 5 must be given thrice, or at
least twice, in twenty four Hours. However the principal Remedy is
Bleeding. As soon as ever the preceding cold Assault is over, twelve
Ounces of Blood must be taken away at once; and, if the Patient be young
and strong, fourteen or even sixteen. This plentiful Bleeding gives him
more Ease, than if twenty four Ounces had been drawn, at three different
Times.
Sec. 50. When the Disease is circumstanced as described (Sec. 46) that first
Bleeding makes the Patient easy for some Hours; but the Complaint
returns; and to obviate its Violence, as much as possible, we must,
except things promise extremely well, repeat the Bleeding four Hours
after the first, taking again twelve Ounces of Blood, which pretty often
proves sufficient. But if, about the Expiration of eight or ten Hours,
it appears to kindle up again, it must be repeated a third, or even a
fourth Time. Yet, with the Assistance of other proper Remedies, I have
seldom been obliged to bleed a fourth Time, and have sometimes found the
two first Bleedings sufficient.
If the Disease has been of several Days Duration, when I have first been
called; if the Fever is still very high; if there be a Difficulty of
Breathing; if the Patient does not expectorate at all, or brings up too
much Blood; without being too solicitous about the Day of the Disease,
the Patient should be bled, though it were on the tenth. [20]
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