A dissertation on hernia humoralis / by Paul Micheau, surgeon ; and Fellow of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense.

  • Micheau, Paul.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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Credit: A dissertation on hernia humoralis / by Paul Micheau, surgeon ; and Fellow of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hinder us from flecping, with fuch a dofe as has been found abundantly foporific before j fo that opium will not always make us fleep, even when there is no apparent caufe to difturb us, by a moderate dofe, i. e. twenty drops of liquid laudanum, taken at bed time, his cough was often cured the very next day, if mild and re- cent, and he was no otherwife indifpofed, all the effe&s were, fleeping better, and being cured, but if he took thirty five drops inflead of twenty, then the next morning he found the drowfinefs continue longer, his face being a little fwelled, his fkin hotter and fometimes drier, though at other times a gentle fweac came on, his tongue was whitifh and his breafi: bound till when the effects of the laudanum ceafed. Thus he has often had his cough feemingly cured in the morning, by the lauda- num which he took the preceedingnight; but it returned in the afternoon, when the effect o£ the opium was over, yet opium was (till thfe cure. There have been inflances of patients ia the hofpital who have remembered its vir- tues