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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    man could not furvive four and twenty hours. On the apothecary thus givmg him up, I deter- mined to try the etTcQs of yeafi. I gave him two large, table fpoonfuls. In fifteen minutes from taking the yeaft his pulfe, though ftill feeble, began to get compofed and full. He, in thirty-two minutes from his taking the yeaft, was able to get up from his bed, and walk in his room. At the expiration of the fecond hour, I gave him a bafon of fago, with a good deal of lemon, w^ine, and ginger in it; he eat it with an appetite: in another hour I repeated the yeaft ; an hour afterwards I gave the bark as before: at the next hour he had food: next he had another dofe of yeaft, and then w^nt to bed, it was nine o'clock. I went to fee him the next morning at fix o'clock j he told me he had a good night, and was recovered. I, ho\y- ever, repented the medicine, and he was able to £0 about his bufinefs as ufual. About a year after this, as I was riding paft a detached farm-hoiifc at the out-lkirts of the village, [ obferved a farmer's daughter ftanding at the door, apparently in great affliction. On enquiring into the caufe of her diftrcfs, Ihe told me her father was dying. I difmonntcd, aiid went into the houfe to fee him. I found him in the laft ftagc of a putrid fever; his tongue was black; his pulfe was fcarcely perceptible; and he lay ftretchcd out, like a corpfe, in a ftate of dfowfy infenfibility. I immediately procured fomp