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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    219/224 (page 213)
    —'N f ' [ 2I3 1 & decoction of eringo-roots, guaiacufjfc. and farfaparilla fweetened with honey. Thirty-ninth day, having premifed two clyfters, which operated copioufly, I prefer!» bed boluffes of Virginia fnake-root, camphor, and affafoetida, with a fmall quantity of fulph* aurat. Antimonii, to be taken every four hours with a glafs-full of the ptifan. Fortieth day, as he had not yet got any fleep, I added half a grain of opium to his night bolus, which procured him a good night's reft. Forty-firft day, he took a gill of Malaga wine in the forenoon, and the fame quantity in the evening, which wonderfully recruited his ftrength. Forty-fecond day, he could move his right leg- By the fiftieth day, by the ule of the fame remedies, the opium excepted, which he took only once, he recovered the ufe of his hands and feet. His ftrength was wholly recruited by an eupeptic diet, generous wines, and rid¬ ing on horfeback; nor did his gonorrhoea ever return. • ' FINIS,