A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / By Francis Balfour.

  • Balfour, Francis, -1818.
Date:
1785
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Credit: A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / By Francis Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ the Moon in Fevers. 31 this fyftem, is the mode fuggefted by it of fecuring againft relapfes. Thele ge¬ nerally happen at the full and change; and no perfon who has bad an intermit¬ tent can confider himfelf in any degree fafe at thefe periods, until he has perfedlly recovered his ftrength, and removed every fymptom of obitruclion. it is therefore abfolutely neceflaryto watch thefe returns with the greateft care; and in general the ufe of laxatives, and a few dofes of bark given a day before, and continued every day whilfl the period lafts, will prevent a relapfe. When thefe precautions prove ineffectual, and the patient, in fpite of all his endeavours, neither recovers ftrength, nor gets quit of the fymptoms of obftruc- tion, we are then taught to remove him with all expedition to a climate where the influence of the moon is lefs perceivable, and lefs prejudicial, than it is in Ben- gal (i). All (/') At Madras it is much lefs felt; and a removal to that fettlement from Bengal is, in many cafes, almoft a cer¬ tain cure.