A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of the seamen and soldiers in Bengal : presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the year 1791 / by John Peter Wade, M.D.

  • Wade, John Peter, -1802.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of the seamen and soldiers in Bengal : presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the year 1791 / by John Peter Wade, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bition is in direct contradiction to the nature of the appearances, and to every indication of cure, and confequently muft always be im- proper, and often fatal; but in no one inftance, under any number and quality of fymptoms, does its early exhibition appear fo pregnant with deftrudion, as during the iirffc appearance of thofe fymptoms, which are deemed highly putrid, and which, according to the general opinion of the medical world, demand its inftantaneous ufe in the largeft poffible quantities. It is in vain to remon- strate againft the abfurdity of attempting the correction in lieu of the expulfion of putrid matters. The patient's weaknefs, they will affirm, evinces the impoffibility and the fatality of the latter; and experience, univer- fal experience, has proved the efficacy of bark and wine. An obfcure individual op- pofes fuch prejudices in vain; in vain he afferts, that the general putrefcency cannot in any inftance arife, unlefs from the putrid contents of the ftomach and interlines; that fuppofing putridity to exift fometimes in the general fyftem, it can only arife from a courfe of abforption in the bowels; that, confequently, fymptoms evincing the exiftence of thofe mat- ters muft always precede general putrefcency; that in reality the putrid appearances ate in general,