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. 82. It happens sometimes, that the _Vomica_ is entirely cleansed; the
Expectoration is entirely finished, or drained off, the Patient seems
well, and thinks himself compleatly cured: but soon after, the
Uneasiness, Oppression, Cough and Fever are renewed, because the
Membrane or Bag of the _Vomica_ fills again: again it empties itself,
the Patient expectorates for some Days, and seems to recover. After some
Time however, the same Scene is repeated; and this Vicissitude, or
Succession, of moderate and of bad Health, often continues for some
Months and even some Years. This happens when the _Vomica_ is emptied,
and is gradually deterged; so that its Membranes, or Sides touch or
approach each other; but without cicatrizing or healing firmly; and then
there drops or leaks in very gradually fresh Matter. For a few Days this
seems no ways to incommode the Patient; but as soon as a certain
Quantity is accumulated, he is visited again with some of the former
Symptoms, 'till another Evacuation ensues. People thus circumstanced, in
this Disease, sometimes appear to enjoy a tolerable Share of Health. It
may be considered as a kind of internal Issue, which empties and
cleanses itself from Time to Time; pretty frequently in some
Constitutions, more slowly in others; and under which some may attain a
good middling Age. When it arrives however at a very considerable
Duration, it proves incurable. In its earliest State, it gives way
sometimes to a Milk-diet, to riding on Horseback; and to the Medicine
No. 14.
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