Prophylactics in fever. : Instructions, antidotes, and precautions requisite to sensibly mitigate the virulency of contagious disease, and effectually prevent its general communication.

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[1791]
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Credit: Prophylactics in fever. : Instructions, antidotes, and precautions requisite to sensibly mitigate the virulency of contagious disease, and effectually prevent its general communication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This important Subect may be briefly comprifed and confidered under t principal Heads of I. Cleanliness. As this Mean has been Fumigation by Sulphur, Tobacco, Refins^ univerfally accounted me ft conducive to the fa- incen/e, Juniper Berries, Myrrh and Carr, lutary Purpofes of eradicating Contagion and Thefe laft Ingredients, in the Proportion preferving Health, a diligent Attention to the Ounces of Juniper Berries to one Ounce o: Circumftances immediately, or remotely, con- and half an Ounce of Camphor, ftiould be nefted with it, ought to be every where ftrenuoufty and burnt upon a Chafing Dilh of Coals, enjoined. The Floors, Walls, Cielings and Fur- ders. To perfe&ly eradicate Pestilenti; niture of the infefted Apartments being kept per- tagion, the Chamber (when the Patie fe£Uy free from every Impurity. With this View, moved from it) will require the fame Tr the Bed Cloaths and Linen of the Sick, frequent- mod afiiduoufly executed : Particularly i ly changed, fhould be repeatedly immerfed in wafhing with Cold Water, Vinegar, or Inj cold Water ; then wafhed and dried in the open volatile Vegetables. Every Aperture is th Air, in Order to anticipate and prevent the per- accurately clofed, and the Fumes of To nicious Effects of contaminated Effluvia. rather, as more potent, thofe of Sulphur c< II. Ventilation. The frequent Admiffion admitted. Laftly, after the room has be of a full Stream of Air will in a great Mealure white wafhed, it muft be conftantly ve obviate the infalubrious State of it. The Win- and, whilft convenient, remain uninha dows and Doors are, therefore, to be occafionally Perions fuffering the fatal Effefts of fuel opened ; and if diftant from the Patient, in fultry calamitous Diftempers are to be private! Seafonsmuft never be altogether clofed. red, as foon as Decency and Propriety III. Antidotes. Ip, the- Apartments of mit. the Sick the Articles requifite fco deftroy the ac- The Attendants upon, or Families oftl rimonious Virulency of Contagion ought to be fhould carefully guard againft the variou poffefled of pungent and penetrating, yet inoffen- of Debility, Relaxation, and Putrefcenc five Qualities : of thefe the Vapours of heated avoidably expofed to Contagion th Vinegar impregnated with Myrrh, or thofe of probably, be preferved from its banef Tar, with the Effluvia of Quick-Lime^ occafioned ence by the regular Employment of a i by the gradual Addition of fmall Quantities of and cordial Diet ; Wine and Spirits be Water, and the grateful Odour of aromatic rally taken. Tonic Preparations of t Herbs are the moft eligible. The burning mo- and Bitters are in this Regard peculiar derate Portions of Fuel, and the Explofion of cious, efpecially before anv neceflany / Gun ‘Powder or Nitre may alfo be ufefully is paid to the Patient. Acids and ftimu (employed ; To the above Prefervatives, in dulated Beverages have been alio juc' (the Stair Cafe and other remote Parts of the recommended. Daily Exercile in the oj Houfe might be added the different Modes of and occafionai Cold Bathings particui