Volume 5

The philosophy of medicine, or, Medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal oeconomy and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine / by a friend to improvements.

Date:
1799-1800
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Credit: The philosophy of medicine, or, Medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal oeconomy and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine / by a friend to improvements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    down according to the degree of putrefa61IoH, and in changing the petechia? from a purple to a brown, and ftiil more diluted or redder colour, till they become quite evanefcent. I might here mention a great variety of cafes to illuftrate its furprtjing -power in correcting the moft putrid ftate of the juices; but (ball confine myfelf to a few, which 1 hope will be fufficient. The Rev. Mr. Stuart, fon to the Earl of Bute, was in the year 178 taken with the ufual fvmp- toms of a putrid fever, violent head-ach, pain in his loins, licknefs at his ftomach, anguiOi about the pra:cordia, and extreme debility, witli deli- rium. A vaft number of the true petechia?, pur- pleas violets, perhaps not fewer than a thoufand, made their appearance at the fame time. We had immediate recourfe to the muriatic acid in great abundance ; giving him likevvife camphor and Mindereri fpirit, with wines, pine-apples, grapes, and other ripe fruits, In the courfe of eight-and-forty hours, tiie fpots were changed to a brown ^<Sio\sxand in a few days more, he was left in a ftate of fafety. I could not prevent his Noble Father from witneiTmg, in perfon, the pro- grefs of a difeafe that often proves dangeroufly infectious. His Lordfliip obferved, with aJioniJJi- ment and delight, the operation of this admirable medicine. He has fmce repeatedly exprefied an earneft wifli to fee its powers mad;e public, from his conviction of its being calculated to prevent, as