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.

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    which sometimes comes on at the begin- ning of the cold stage, but more fre- quently not till the hot stage be formed. Sect. XXI. It belongs also to this place to remark that the cold stage sometimes comes on with a drowsiness and stupor, which often increase to a degree that may be called Comatose or Apoplectic. Sect. XXII. We have still to add that sometimes, <( early in the cold stage, a headach comes on, but which more commonly is not felt till the hot stage be formed, and then is usually attended with a throbbing of the temples.