Instructions for the relief of the sick poor, in some diseases of frequent occurrence: addressed to a parochial clergyman, residing at a distance from professional aid / By a physician.

Date:: 1820

Credit: Instructions for the relief of the sick poor, in some diseases of frequent occurrence: addressed to a parochial clergyman, residing at a distance from professional aid / By a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$APPENDIX. —*vsfy\v— When a Fever is communicated from one in* dividual in the same family to another, or from the inhabitants of one house (between whom an intercourse subsisted) to the inhabitants of ano- ther house, it cannot be doubted that the Fever is of a contagious or infectious description; and the necessary precautions should be adopted to prevent the contagion from spreading. With this view, individuals as soon as they fall ill, should be separated from the rest of the family. Where Fever Hospitals (or Houses of Recovery, as they are termed,) are established, the patients-should be immediately removed to them ; but where such institutions are wanting, none but the necessary attendants should be permitted to have access to the sick. With regard to the Sick-Chamber, it should be kept as clean, as cool, and as well ventilated as possible. All discharges from the patient’s body should be removed as soon as they take place; and the room should be mopped with cold water every day; in warm weather there should be no fire in the room; and at such sea-$