The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation ... / by Daniel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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    13:2 THB INOCULATOA} immediate recourfe to the following cooling laxative clyllers, notwithftanding the purging dofe may have amply anfwered its intentions only a few hours before, but efpecially in a ftate of infancy; and where the head is fuppofed to be much affedted by pain, or a preternatural flufhing on the cheeks, no time is to be loft. Take of—Glauber falts, fix drachms, rather x more or lefs. Hot water, half or three quarters of a pint.—Mix for a clyfter, which fiiould be admi- niftered without lofs of time. This proportion and quantity is fufficient for a child of from two to twenty months old; the quantity to be in- creafed according to age. Let the clyfter be detained in the bowels as long as pofiible; but in cafe of an immediate return, repeat it diredlly: if the heat, fever, and pain of the head, are not fenfibly abated within the couffe of an hour from the firft application, it ought to be re- peated. Should the fever be accompanied with ficknefs, or loathing of food, it will be advifable to add, for young children, half a drachm or » drachm of nitre to each clyfter. Fifth