Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward].

  • Ward, Michael, active 1809.
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[1809]
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Credit: Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the powerful and salutary effects of the opiate friction in the younger child, recourse was had to the same application, and with the happiest effects ; for though she was kept cool, and took refrigerants and anodynes internally at proper intervals, still the spasms returned; but were as often subdued and rest procured in the way which I have described. It is remarkable, that neither in this, (which proved an extremely bad case of the confluent small pox. *) nor the former case, was there any * It is melancholy to reflect upon the many thousands of lives that are annually lost in the British Dominions by the natural small pox; and what renders it still more so is, that many, perhaps the greater part, of those who escape with life, have reason to lament the effects of that prejudice, or whatever might be the cause, which prevented their parents from availing themselves of that simple, though salutary mean of prevention, the cowpock inoculation. It is much to be feared, however, if we may judge from the great number of deaths which has happened from this cause in the course of the present year in this town; that nothing effectual will be done to remove the evil, until the legislature shall in its wisdom, think proper to enact, (as was said to be in con- templation the last year,) that every housekeeper having the natural small pox in his family shall be obliged to give notice thereof, by placing a board with words to that effect upon the front of his house, and that proper steps should after- wards be taken to cleanse the house from the infection. 2. That no person shall be inoculated for the small pox, ex- cept in a house to be Wt apart for that purpose, at the dis- tance of two or three miles from any other. Perhaps the conclusion may be somewhat premature ; but if I