The catechism of health : selected and translated from the German of Dr Faust. Illustrated with copperplates. Now first published for the use of inhabitants of Scotland, by the recommendation of Dr Gregory.
- Bernhard Christoph Faust
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The catechism of health : selected and translated from the German of Dr Faust. Illustrated with copperplates. Now first published for the use of inhabitants of Scotland, by the recommendation of Dr Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![[ 14* ] and from which a great deal of matter oo- zes, ought to- be repeatedly walhed every day with cold water. The feiVenth, eighth, or ninth day after the in- oculation, the patient feels pains under the arm, and is attacked by head- ach, and fe- ver ; and fometimes vomits. This fever lafts two, three, or four days, dur- ing which period the patient Ihould not re- main in bed, but, though it may be very inconvenient in the beginning, walk, or be carried, about, where there is frelh, pure, cool air, which is abfolutely necefiary. In free and cool air, the fever and-head-ach go off i and if the forehead and arms be frequently walhed in cold water, almoft all illnefs will go off. The fecond, third, and fourth day of the fe- ver, or the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth day after inoculation, fometimes later, the fmall- pox come forth of their own accord : they ought not to be forced to make their ap- pearance. , In moft cafes there are few puftulcs, which, being good, the difeafe is foon at an end.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28520221_0165.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
