Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases; whether applied to the surface of the body, or used as a drink: with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / by James Currie.

Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases; whether applied to the surface of the body, or used as a drink: with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / by James Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ( Z3Z ' ) a fhorter date. He had fwallowed a very fmalZ portion of nutriment for the preceding eight days, and the plan of nutrition juft mentioned, though adopted in part, was not fully eftabliftted. His tongue and lips were at this time become dry ; a blifter applied to the fternum, difcharged a thick coagulable lymph only; and his urine, reduced to a few ounces in the twenty-four hours, was be- come extremely high coloured, and almoft intoler- ably pungent. In a few days however this ftate of the tongue went off; the fkin became perfectly foft, and was often covered with a very gentle perfpira- tion ; the urine flowed without pain, and of the natural appearance, the quantity being from 24 oz. to 36 oz. in the twenty-four hours—more than the whole of his lofs of weight in the fame fpace of time. Mr. M. had in general a ftool after every fifth or fixth clyfter, that is, three or four times a week. The fubftance of thefe ftools was folid, and nearly of the natural foetor, and the mafs perfedtly homo- genous. The colour was lighter than natural, as is the cafe in obftrudtions of the bile dudt ; their whole appearance refembling what we find in cafes of diffedtion in the termination of the Ileum or beginning of the Colon, with the exception of being much lefs liquid. The concodtion of the Faeces, if 1 may fo fpeak, was much more perfedt