A treatise on the influenza of 1837, containing an analysis of one hundred cases, observed at Birmingham, between the 1st of January and the 15th of February / by Peyton Blakiston.

Date:
1837
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Credit: A treatise on the influenza of 1837, containing an analysis of one hundred cases, observed at Birmingham, between the 1st of January and the 15th of February / by Peyton Blakiston. 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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    GO 5. When bronchitis was present, counter-irritation, and large closes of iE the rial Tincture of Lobelia, repeated at short intervals, seemed useful. 7. Venesection was always counter-indicated. 8. It was often necessary to have recourse to diffusible stimulants, at the commencement of the complaint, and to administer tonic medicines in an early stage of it. 9. 11 only proved fatal in those cases where the persons it attacked had been enfeebled by old age or chronic disease. Printed by Janies Belcher and Son, High-street, Birmingham.