Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D.

  • Somers, Edmund Sigismund, approximately 1759-1824.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    As the cold advances, there frequently comes on a sickness and nausea, which often increase to a vomiting of a mat- ter that is for the most part bilious. This vomiting commonly puts an end to the cold stage and brings on the hot. Asthehot stage advances, the nausea and vomiting abate, and when the sweat breaks out, they generally cease alto- gether. Sect. XV. A considerable degree of thirst is com- monly felt during the whole course of the paroxysm. During the cold stage, the thirst seems to to arise from the dryness and clammi- ness of the mouth and fauces, but dur- ing the hot stage, from the heat which prevails over the whole body, and as the sweat flows, the mouth becomes moister