An enquiry into the nature, and causes of the great mortality among the troops at St. Domingo : with practical remarks on the fever of that island, and directions, for the conduct of Europeans on their first arrival in warm climates / by Hector M'Lean.

  • McLean, Hector, -1810.
Date:
1797
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature, and causes of the great mortality among the troops at St. Domingo : with practical remarks on the fever of that island, and directions, for the conduct of Europeans on their first arrival in warm climates / by Hector M'Lean. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cafes too, where remiffions Had commenced, and where a return was apprehended, I pre- fcribed opium very freely; and, as I con- ceive, with good effefts. Towards the happy termination of the Remittent, when the pa- tient was fatigued by reftlefs nights, I found opium of very confiderable ufe ^ but it was freely prefcribed; and other flimulants were given, /when it was withdrawn from the pa- • tient. Upon the whole, - opium cannot in our prefent ftate of knowledge be ufed with advantage, in the beginning of the Remittent; but it is of fignal fervice in many occurrences during the difeafe. $ Antimonials,under whicdi we range James's powders, did not appear to me of any great fervice j fometimes they produced perfpira- tion, which afforded temporary relief from the fymptoms ; but they again returned, and continued their courfe. In my .early prac- tice, indeed till a fhort period before my de- parture, I was in the habit, of continuing pretty large dofes of James’s powders joined with calomel; and though in general they produced fome flight abatement in the fymp- toms, yet they could by no means be relied on as decifive means of cutting fhort, the courfe of the fever. In