Volume 2

Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
M. DCC. XCII. [1792]
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    = 254 OF CONTINUED FEVERS. * .. able debility, . or fymptoms of putrefcency come on; and then, it is faid, if it be taken in proper quantities, that it will feldom fail in removing the difeafe. But the truth is, and I {peak from attentive experience, that if it be delayed fo long, it will not only happen that the patient 1s incapable of taking it in | proper dofes; but that, by this time, fuch dangerous {ymptoms nano fuch as con- cc to thehead, and other vi/cera, which will render the effeéts of the bark, even fup- pofe the patient’s ftomach be able to retain it in the moft liberal manner, extremely un- certain. In another publication * I have fhowth the fafety and advantage of exhibiting the bark early in continued fevers, which oc- curred in my practice, in this kingdom. And, from 1770 to the prefent year 1791, I have attended about, thirteen. hundred patients, im all the varieties of ‘continued fever; and do not remember that above | four their experience. Dr Lettfom and Dr Sims have alfo incul- ‘cated the early ufe of the bark, in their writings, without pay- ing regard to intermiffion or remiffion of fever: and feveral other authors have adopted this practice, although they have confined it to that ftate of fever, which they have generically denominated Typhus. * Olfervations on Fevers ; efpecially on thofe of the continued type; and on the Scarlee Fever, attended with ulcerated Sore Throats &Ce