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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    Doles of the fame Powder, which operated much in the fame Manner it had done with me, llie perfectly reco¬ vered. At the fame Time that I was ill myfelf of this fe¬ ver, my Daughter Elizabeth, who was about feven V ears old, was ill of the fame Fever, and very light-headed and raving. . Shetook two half Dofes of the fame Medicine, which operated nearly in the lame Manner it had done with me, and perfectly cured the Fever. A few Days after thi?, my Daughter Henrietta, who was about four Years old, was feized with the tame Dif- order, attended with the fame Circumftances; and upon taking two half Dofes of the fame Powder, fhe was per¬ fectly cured. In all theie Cafes we had no Occafion to take any other Medicine. Sarah Francis. 'The Cafe of Mr. Pringle. I jVfr. pr’tnqle a Cabinet-maker of Weft-Street, St, Anii , Weltminiler, gives me the following Relation. § j g November 12, 1747* IWas for near thirty Years afflicted at Intervals with a violent Pain in my Head, and was fubjeft to a Fever on taking any little Cold. About the middle o (July 1743, I was taken ill of a violent Fever, which con¬ tinued on me eight Days, when it grew to fuch an Height, that I was deprived of all my Senfes; at this Time I took a Dofe of your Fever Powder, which made me vomit three or four Times, and then caufed me to fweat pretty much for four or five Hours. As foon as I began to fweat my Fever abated, and when the Operation of the Powder was over, the Fever left me entirely, and 1 was well enough the next Morning to work at my Bufinefs. J was feized with the fame kind of Fever three feveral 1 ime^ the next Year, in Confequence of getting Cold ; but upon takinp- a Paper of the fame Powder each Time, I was immediately cured. And iince taking the laft Dofe 0 Powder, which was in the Beginning of September 1 744* J have been entirely freed from all thofe Complaints, my Fever has never returned, and what I think is more ex- 'traordinary,that almoft continual Head-ach, whichIhad