The medical pocket book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body; including such as require surgical treatment: together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples : extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by Sir John Elliot, M.D.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
Date:
1803
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Credit: The medical pocket book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body; including such as require surgical treatment: together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples : extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by Sir John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a broad irregular fpot,of a pale white colour, furrounded with red. Ou the fecond or tfr day the face, neck, breaft, and hands fwelle.., and as if erysipelatous ; an efflorefcence of manyfmallred pimples fometimes appearsdn the arms and other parts. The thfoat Houghs, ulcerates,and is very painful. Oifeniivetaite, and delirium towards night. Treatment. Avoid bleeding and evacuation, gentle fudorifics and a flight emetic at the beginning excepted; and purgings fhould be checked. Gargle, or rather fyringe the throat with the compound decoction of bar- ley, to which vinegar, myrrh, and honey of roles may be added. If the floughs do not feparate, touch them with a rag dipped in a mixture of oxymel of verdigris, *j. and §ij* of the preceding gargle ; or gargle with wa- ter acidulated with muriatic acid. But the principal reliance muft be on the barli given freely with wine and acids. To rcftore the .patient give bark and vitriolic acid, with proper ftrengthening diet. ANGINA MAXILLARIS. Symptoms. Latitude, heavinefa, general reftlefs uneafinefs, gentle rigors, and (light fever : thefe are followed by a ftiffnefs, with obtufe pain, in the articulation of the lower jaw: the parotid glands, neighbouring fkin,and cellu- lar