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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    [ *59 ] . tives, and efpecially the Peruvian bark, which Anagoly gave reafbn to believe, and experi¬ ence has confirmed, to be an excellent re¬ medy in a gangrenous necrofis, and other dis¬ orders of the vital motion. The dangerous and difficultly cured fpecies from the fifth caufe are Sometimes cured by fpecifics, diluents, and edulcorants, generally joined to corroboratives. But I will not ex¬ patiate on thefe circumftances, lince Donald Monro, a pupil of the great Haller, has wrote a moft ufeful treatife on this Subject, In which he has learnedly and clearly pointed out the method how to know and cure moil: dropfies by precepts and examples. Yet it may be of fervice, after having premifed thus much in general, to add a few direc¬ tions concerning what is to be avoided, rather than performed, this having been either omitted, or flightly pafled over by others. Firft, This is the fundamental principle of the cure, that the veins may abforb as much as the arteries depofite; therefore while abforption is obftrudted, motion in the arte¬ ries is increafed hurtfully; , : Secondly tv 7 \