The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily.

  • Daily, William.
Date:
1848
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Credit: The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pulse frequent, small, and somewhat tense, and a sense of h«at internally. The Gastric variety: the majority of our autumnal intermittents are of this character; they are attended with strong marks of irritating matters in the prima vice; there is nausea, bilious vomiting, bittter taste; weight and fulness in the epigastrium; great pain in the forehead; foul tongue; quivering of the upper lip; countenance, and tunica albuginia, tinged with yellow ; urgent desire for acid drinks. Malignant Intermittents. Rapid in their course- sweat, in the third stage, generally very copious and fe- tid; haemorrhages from the nose, bowels, gums, &c; petechia; and other symptoms denoting malignity. (Alibert.) In relation to the natural duration of intermittents, it would ap- pear that quotidians, when left to themselves, have a tenden- cy to terminate on the 14th; tertians on the 21st; and quar- tans about the end of the 6th week. Prognosis. When simple intermittents prove fatal, it is gener- ally in the cold stage—death then occurs in the way of ap- oplexy ; most dangerous, in weak and cachectic habits of body. Postponing more favorable than anticipating agues ; scabby eruptions, re-appearance of suppressed discharges, &c. favorable; integrity of the digestive functions, a good sign; change from the quotidian to the tertian favorable. Delirium more unfavorable than mere coma; occurs in the worst foims of the disease. Tumid and painful abdomen, with oppressed respiration, hiccough, &c; colliquative diarr- hcea; bloody urine, red and suffused eyes—are bad signs. Great debility during the intermission, with cedema of the legs and feet, restlessness, languor, sighing, dry tongue, or bilious vomiting, very unfavorable. Circtimstances peculiar to the various types: Cold stage long- er in. tertians than in quotidians—hot stage longer in the lat- ter, than the fosmer; &c. &o.