Fever physiologically considered; considerations on yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, cholera, and sea-scurvy; also the questions of contagion, and the quarantine laws; with an address to the public, &c. on the popular treatment of cholera / By David M'Connell Reed.

  • Reed, David M'Connell, -1889.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Fever physiologically considered; considerations on yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, cholera, and sea-scurvy; also the questions of contagion, and the quarantine laws; with an address to the public, &c. on the popular treatment of cholera / By David M'Connell Reed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    instead of increasing, they often suppress this evacu- ation; and those that are the strongest, often give us the least quantities of urine, because their stimu- lating powers too much restore the springiness of the secretory glands, which straighten their passages and occasion those stranguries and pains that most complain of, upon taking a large dose of the stronger diuretics.’ This must terminate what I have to say under the head of prognosis. =a --” °°