A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *7 ) cafe, excepting in one, of the many I faw under the prefent epidemic; nor indeed does the ftate of the inflammation in the lead warrant its propriety *'. In our practice among the poor, who arc deprived of thofe conveniences to be met with in genteeler life, we may fully anfwer our purpofes by the Sp. Minder. & Vin. Antim. as mentioned already, giving plenty of milk poflet, made either with butter- milk, or in its {lead good vinegar. Mucilaginous drinks may be made cheap, and good enough with Rad. Glycerrh. Spaniuh juice, decoctions of common mal- * Since this was wrote, a gentleman of this place tells me, he has bled in fome few cafes with advantage ; yet I examined the blood of one who came to be bled, and it confirmed what I have advanced,—The patient had infifted on being bled.