Advice with respect to health / Extracted from Dr. Tissot.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Advice with respect to health / Extracted from Dr. Tissot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recommendation of the Peruvian bark, as, “ lire only infallible remedy cither for mortifications oi intermitting fevers.” He really feems tranfpor- ted with the theme, as do many phyficians befide. I objeff to this, i. It is not “ an infallible reme- dy,” either for one or the other : no, not even when adminiller’d by a very fkilful phyfician, after evacuations of every kind, I have known pounds of It given, to flop a mortification yet the mortification fpread, till it killed the patient. I myfelf took fome pounds of it when I was young for a common tertian ague. Atid that after vo- miting. Yet it did not, would not effe£l a cure. And I fhould probably have died of it, had I not been cured unawares by drinking largely of le- monade. I will be bold to fay, from my perfonal knowledge, there are other remedies, which more feldom fail. I believe, the bark has cured fix agues in ten : I know, Cobweb pills have cured nine in ten. The bark has often flopped a morti- fication : and fometimes it has failed. But I could never learn that Dr. Piper’s method [of Effex] has failed in a ftngle inflance : though one of his patients w'as of a grofs habit, and above fixty years old, and another, above ninety. Let them philofophize upon thefe things w'ho pleafe ; I urge plain matter of fa£t. I objeft, fecondl)\ that as it is far from being an infallible remedy, fo it is from being a fafe one. Not that I affirm, as Dr. Tiffot fuppofes the 6bje£lors do, that it occa- fions aflhmas or dropfies. I do not think this at all improbable : however I have not obferved it. But this I affirm in the face of the fun ; it fre- quently turns an intermitting fever into a con- f umption. By this means a few years fince one of the moft amiable young woman 1 have known loll fier life : and fo did one of the healthiell young men in Yorkfliire., I could multiplvinflancesjbut I need