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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    x6 ANG lar membrane, fwell: fometimesadufkyerysi- pelatous inflammation covers the tumour. If the Swelling Subfidefuddenly, an exacerbation of the Symptoms comes on, with tumefaction of one or both tefticles. If this fubiide in like maimer, the head is afFedted, and deli- rium folloVs, with convulfions, and other a- larming Symptoms, fometimes proving fatal. Treatment. Promote perfpiration from the parts affected by keeping them warm ; cover the fweiling with a blifter; and give diaphoretics, v/ith opium, if neceilary. The body Should be- kept gently open ; but bleeding mull be carefully avoided, unlefs the moft prefling indications require it. ANGINA PECTORIS. Symptoms. A pain underneath fome part of the Ttemum, with a fenfe of Strangling and anxi- ety, coming on Suddenly whilft walking,par- ticularly foon after a meal, and vanifhing on ftandiftg ftill : after foaqe months it does not ceafe fo inft ntaneoufly on Standing ftill; will come on when the patient is-lying in bed ; and fometimes even when Standing ftill, or fitting ; the pain ufually extends acrofs the bread, ar.d is felt particularly at the infertion of the pectoral mufcle into the os humeri: it is generally on the left fide, fometimes on both ; it recurs more or lefs frequently, per- haps