Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 1).

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1805
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    I found obvious advantages, in many cases, from the use of pediluvia, every night. In every case, I found the patients refreshed and relieved by frequent changes of their linen. On the third or fourth day, in the forenoon, the pains in the head and back generally abated, with a sweat which was diffused over the whole body. The pulse at this time remained quick and weak. This was, however, no objection to the use of the bark, a kw doses of which immediately abated its quickness, and prevented a return of the fever. If the fever continued beyond the third or fourth day without an intermission, I always had recourse to blisters. Those which were applied to the neck, and behind the ears, produced the most immediate good effects. They seldom failed of producing an intermission in the fever, the day after they were applied. Where delirium or coma attended, I applied the blister to the neck on the first day of the disease. A worthy family in this city will always ascribe the life of a promising boy, of ten years old, to the early application of a blis- ter to the neck, in this fever. VOL. I. R