Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot].

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1772
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    dilorder makes its appearance by a vomiting* attended with an inordinate pulfe, frequent and exceflive weaknefs ; diforders are Hip- pofed to proceed from crudities, and emetics* purgatives, and ftomachics are adminiftered; and blifters are applied with a view to procure a revulfion, and fpirituous medicines to revive the fpirits, and reftore the ftrength; the difeafe increafes, a lethargy enfues, and the patient dies. I have leen many cafes of this kind : by plentiful bleeding, pediluvia, a laxative drink prepared of nitre and tama¬ rinds, and emollient glyfters, I have retrain¬ ed the vomiting, removed the naufea, prevent¬ ed the increafe of the difeafe, and have at length cured the difeafe. I have known many die who were treated in a different manner. A perfon attacked with this dis¬ order died not a great while ago, highly lethargic, to whom opiates had been admi¬ niftered, with what intention ? perhaps with an intention of checking the vomiting. The difeafe of which many die in old age isfimilar; after a vertigo, anxiety, and debility, they are feized with fuch a copious vomit¬ ing, that the quantity almoft exceeds all G 4 belief