Observations on the typhus, or, low contagious fever, and on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D.

  • Campbell, D. (David)
Date:
1785
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    furred, or aphtha appeared, in oppofition to a hard or dry tongue ; when there were fctechi z or hemorrhages j and when the marks which characterize debility, were par- ticularly ftriking. But in the progrefs of the difeafe, the plan we have juft now laid down was interrupted, and obliged to be varied becaufe it feemed, in whatever manner put in practice, to be inadequate to the removal of a particular fet of fymptoms, which frequently appeared. Further I thought that when the delirium was attend- ed with a hard dry tongue, and quick mo- tions, that thefe fymptoms were encreafed by the exhibition of bark and wine : but whether this might have arilen, from not bring able to throw them in, in fufficient quantities, I cannot fay, as under thefe cir- cumftances, it was very difficult to induce the patients to fwailow any thing bulky, or that was difagieeable to the palate. How- ever the fame inconvenience from the ufe of wine has been remarked by Sir John Prin- $l?-% The § Obfprvalions on the Difeafes of the Army, P. 3160