A dissertation on fevers and inflammatory distempers : wherein an expeditious method is proposed of curing those dangerous disorders / by R. James, M.D. ... ; to which is added, an account of the success with which this medicine has been given in the small pox, yellow fever, slow fever, and rheumatism.

  • James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776.
Date:
1755
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Credit: A dissertation on fevers and inflammatory distempers : wherein an expeditious method is proposed of curing those dangerous disorders / by R. James, M.D. ... ; to which is added, an account of the success with which this medicine has been given in the small pox, yellow fever, slow fever, and rheumatism. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS. Mr. Barrow having been educated in Pharmacy, he might be a better Judge of the Operations, and Succefs of this Remedy, than fome others. ’Tis obfervable that he took but one Dole, and no other Medicine. Some time in the Year 1742, I happened to he at a Tavern near the Hay-market, and hearing accidentally of a Wo¬ man who was likely to die of a Fever, 1 remember 1 fent her a Dofe of Powder ; o.nd another for her Child, who, 1 was informed, was as dangeroufy ill as the Mother, which 1 ordered to he divided into two. Four or five Days after lJaw the Woman abroad, in a tolerable State of Health, This was much talked of at that time ; but as 1 did not attend the Woman nyfelf\ nor ever faw the others Jhe mentions, 1 am obliged to relate the four following Cafes in her own Words. The Cafe of Sarah Francis, and that of her Nurfe and two Children. Q ARAB. Francis, of Little Suffolk Street in the Hay- Market, St. James's, was in the latter End of Oelo- ler 1742, feized with a violent Fever, which continued upon me three Weeks, during the greateft Part of which Time I was light-headed, and infenfible, and fo very weak and ill, that the Neighbours, and People who at¬ tended me, expelled my Death every Hour. At this Time a Gentleman, who was at a Tavern in the Neighbour¬ hood, fent me a Powder, and ordered the MefTenger to flay and fee me take it. After I had taken it about a Quarter of an Flour, I fell afleep, and continued fleeping about tw'O Hours; but this I relate only from the Report of thofe about me, for I was delirious. As foon as I awoke, I was perfe&ly fenfible, found myfelf very fick, vomited feveral Times, and purged frequently; and when this was over, I fell fall a-fleep, and continued fleeping feveral Hours, and fweated profufely, upon which I recovered perfectly from my Fever, and was well enough in a few Days to purfue my Bufinefs. After this, my Nurfe, who attended me in my Ulnefs, of Fever, being upon taking two Dofes was taken violently ill of the fame kinc very light-headed for feveral Days and