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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    pear to have any exigence here. On the contrary, that lfate of debility which was induced, in the latter end of Sydenham’s epidemic, in confequence of evacuations, pccured in the early part of this. Farther, I believe it is now generally allowed, that difeafes have not commonly the fame in- flammatory tendency ; nor do they in gene- ral require, or bear, fuch large evacuations., as they did in his time. If opium then was found adequate to the removal of fo high a degree of morbid affec- tion, as delirium; it feemed probable that the effects of this medicine would be more certainly efficacious in a lower degree of the fame complaint, and in the earlier periods of this difeafe, provided fome inflammatory ap- pearance s did not forbid its exhibition* And it is in thefe more early ftages, that I havefeenit particularly advantageous: fo that I now lay it down as a maxim, that when- ever pains in the limbs, or back, head ach, and the like, occafion reftlefs nights, that opium may be adminiftered to obviate thefe fymptoms, with the befl confequences: and although a total annihilation of the difeafe, may