The villager's friend & physician, or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease ... supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary : with cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c / [James Parkinson].

  • Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The villager's friend & physician, or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease ... supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary : with cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c / [James Parkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f<ich as even white^wine whey, *the c.^op of puftulcs may be txpeded to be fo g-reat, that the powers of the patient will be exhaufted, before they are ripened and cleared off. When the fpots are topped by a little watery bladder, f^on after their firft appearance, and are cleared off in two or three days, it may be concluded tSlat the difeafe is the chicken pox or swine POX, a complaint which feWom requires more than to keep the child within doors, and to prevent it from takino: too much exercife. '. If the fpots hardly rife above the (kin, and arc more fpread than in the former difcafes, it is moft probable, the measles is appearing. This may be more certainly concluded to be the cafe, if a frequent dry cough, with rednefs and watering oj the eyes, occur at the fame time. In this difeafe, th< breathing muft be mofl: attentively watched : if thi become quickened, there will be the greateft reafoi to fear inflammation of the lunges to be eftabli{hin| kfel f, which will not be removed but by the mo/ vigorous meafures. Whc pan tfl ie FIR! tar;