Practical illustrations of typhus, and other febrile diseases / By John Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829
Date:
1816
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Credit: Practical illustrations of typhus, and other febrile diseases / By John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m medicines:—Quid scamiuonecB vcidioc ad put gau- dufn, quid aristolochia ad morsus serpentum pos- fit, video ; quod satis est: cur possit, neseh.\ It is truly remarkable, that one of the patients whom I attended: was a female, who had long been in the habit of taking opium to a great ex- tent, 'and who was attacked with this disorder on suddenly lessening the doses of her favorite drug. An Universal collapse was the first effect, and that was succeeded by irritability of the stomachy dampness of the skin, tremors of the hands, pain in the head, watchfulness, and wandering of the mind. It appears that when, in a state of health, the energy of the constitution has been sustained by diffusible stimuli, their sudden abstraction or diminution so reduces the tone of the heart and the arteries, that they cannot maintain the natural equi- librium of the circulation ; and that consequent- ly there is an unusual accumulation of blood in the veins, by which the system is either oppressed, or roused into certain degrees of reaction, accord- ing to its condition at the time. Agreeably to this view we find, that those persons who freely indulge in the use of opium or strong liquors, are very liable to congestive and inflammatory dis- eases, and also to venous hemorrhages. It would i^ ■•m t De Divinatione lib. prim. pag. 11. M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, cum Delectu Commentariorum. Edebat Josephus Olivetus, Academiae Gallic® XL Vir. Tomus tertius, qui Philosophicorum alter. Editio tertia, emerutetissima. Genevae, apud Fratres Cramer. M. JJCC.LVIII.