Sketches of Brazil : including new views on tropical and European fever, with remarks on a premature decay of the system incident to Europeans on their return from hot climates / by Robert Dundas.

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1852
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Credit: Sketches of Brazil : including new views on tropical and European fever, with remarks on a premature decay of the system incident to Europeans on their return from hot climates / by Robert Dundas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as also of the tropics, frequently present well-marked congestive symptoms. How, then, can congestion give a distinctive cha- racter to a fever? From the observations of Dr. Cormack which I just now quoted, we shall be little surprised to find, notwithstanding the urgen- cy of the cases, and the success of several medical friends, he quickly discovered that abstraction of blood was no safe remedy, (p. 151); that sequences were not effects; that cases of pulmonary inflammation yielded to the liberal use of morphia and ipeca- cuan lozenges; that the cerebral, pulmo- nary, and abdominal complications, in which it is proper to abstract blood, are extremely rare, and that, in very many such instances, it is a most hazardous practice; and that, in the case of Francis Rose, acute symp- toms of enteritis and diarrhoea gave way to morphia and whisky. (P. 156.) He also suspected that the good effects of calomel
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