Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.Various
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Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
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Wednesday. This whole day it continued most in the toes of the left
foot; but in the evening the pain on the stomach returned, which lanced
to the left side, with dartings inwardly. He became so uneasy and
restless, that I was obliged to add some opium to the other medicines;
which answered very well.
Thursday. The pains kept most in the toes of the left foot.
Friday. Nothing particular, except his feeling, with sharp pain, a
spark (as he called it) fly out of his right cheek, in the same way, he
said, as that, which burst on his shoulder, but much less. He perceived
no pain in that part before this; nor any thing after, besides a
soreness, which lasted for some days. Hitherto he had been kept in
a continual sweat: his appetite was greater than his allowance, his
digestion good; and his rest indifferent. From this time he was not
attacked by any violent symptoms; and could be quiet, tho’ he did not
sweat.
On Sunday he began to get out of bed; but was often seized with glowing
pains, suddenly affecting different parts of the body; which seldom
continued an hour in one part, but shifted from place to place: these
he was troubled with, in a less degree, even long after he went abroad.
By care and watchfulness the violence of the symptoms were kept under;
and, by the use of antidotes for poisons of the nature of what he
received this from, the disease was overcome, and the patient recovered
his perfect health and strength.
III. _Extract of a Letter of_ J. Wall, _M. D. to the Rev. Dr._
Lyttelton, _Dean of_ Exeter, _and F.R.S. concerning the good Effects
of_ Malverne _Waters in_ Worcestershire.
Worcester, Dec. 22. 1756.
[Read Jan. 20, 1757.]
SIR,
THE Malverne Water much deserves encouragement, several very
extraordinary cures having been done by it lately. I propose to make
a collection of the principal, and publish them, as an appendix to my
little treatise. Amongst other remarkable instances of their great
effects are the following, which have happened this year. A poor woman,
formerly a patient in our infirmary for a fistulous ulcer in the hip,
and another in the groin, which penetrated the abdomen, has received
her cure there, tho’ she was reduced to so great a degree, as to be
thought incurable, and sent into the country on a milk-diet, _&c._ as
the last resource. The discharge from the sores was prodigiously great,
and so offensive, that she could hardly be borne in a room. The water
took off the ill smell almost instantly; the discharge soon lessened,
and grew thick and well-conditioned; her hectic symptoms went off in
proportion; and, by continuing the use of the water for five or six
months, she is cured.
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