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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    profufe hemorrhage from the nofe. On the following day I vifited her along with Mr. Leighton. Her pulfe was 118; the hemorrhage had continued with little abatement, and the blood was thin. Her legs were thickly covered with dufkifh petechiz, and fhe had a great number of purple fpots on various parts of her body, and a few vibices, refembling {mall bruifes, upon her legs and thighs. In a cafe attended with fuch alarming fymptoms, no time was to be loft. She was therefore directed to drink lemonade, with port wine for her common drink; to eat oranges freely ; and to fupport her ftrength with acefcent food, and broth. ‘Two drams of the American extract of bark were ordered to be diffolved in the decoc- tion, N°. g, and four table fpoonfuls to be given every hour and a half; with half a dram of bark in powder, and five grains of alum in each alternate dofe. An a- nodyne draught was, alfo, prefcribed at bed-time. Notwithftanding the patient complied moft punctually with every direction, yet, for feveral days, the petechiez continued of a dufkifh hue ; and the purple fpots and > a3 vibices