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

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    [ *37 1 A man fifty-fix years of age, robuft and active, who had fufferedfeveral fevere attacks of the vertigo fome years before, in the fpring of the year 1760 was feized with a numbnefs, nay an abfolute palfy of the three lafl fingers of his right hand, but flight, and which va- nifhed of its own accord in a few hours. His phyfician prefcribed an infufion, in the man-' ner of tea, of rofemary and fage to be taken twice in a day, with afpoonful of ipirit of cher¬ ries; the fame complaint frequently returned during the ufe of this prefcription, and he ex¬ perienced a frefh attack of the vertigo. But happily the excited humours were not determined to the brain but kidneys, and a mod fevere nephritis came on. Being confulted I advifed to expel the difeafe by the mod powerful refrigerants, and to avoid all aliments and remedies of the ftimulating kind, as carefully aspoifbn, and efpecially all cephalic herbs and fpirits. He followed my advice, and from that time has been entirely free from the vertigo, pally, or any other difeafe whatever. From a longer ufe of heat¬ ing remedies, he would have foon died apo¬ plectic, or dragged on a miferable life, paraly¬ tic.