Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ... / by Martin Wall, M.D.

  • Wall, Martin, 1747-1824.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ... / by Martin Wall, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dice his readers judgment, by adducing thefe testimonies, however flattering they may be to himfelf: nor is it his intention to enlarge this pamphlet, or encreafe the expence of it, by a repeated detail of cafes, which would be fo nearly fimilar to thofe at firffc defcribed. Yet he has received from one Gentleman, whofe correfpondence he highly values, and of whofe abilities he entertains the highert. opinion, a defcription of a cafe v/hich points out fo flrongly fome necefTary cautions ref- pecting the vehicle in which opium mould be adminiftered, and the medicines with which it may be combined, that he apprehends the communication of it will be no lefs inftruc- tive to his readers than it has been to himfelf. The Author having mentioned in pag. v. of the former preface fome doubts concerning the propriety of administering the opiate in the effervefcing faline draught, his corref- pondent is led by that obfervation to def- cribe the following cafe, which is here given almoft in his own words. An