Practice of physic : wherein is attempted a concise exposition of the characters, symptoms, causes of diseases, and method of cure ; with formulae, in which such new articles are introduced as seem, from trial, to be valuable additions to the materia medica ; with a copious index of diseases and medicines ; the whole intended for the assistance of the young practitioner / by Richard Temple.

  • Temple, Richard, 1759-1826.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Practice of physic : wherein is attempted a concise exposition of the characters, symptoms, causes of diseases, and method of cure ; with formulae, in which such new articles are introduced as seem, from trial, to be valuable additions to the materia medica ; with a copious index of diseases and medicines ; the whole intended for the assistance of the young practitioner / by Richard Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % CLASS I.—FEBRILE DISEASES. 109 '‘This pradlice was confined to the inflammatory . ftate; afterwards it 'was not thought advifable, on account of the great debility of the fick. The ufe of bliflers was not found to beTo extenfive in the firfl; as in the fecond ftage. ... ' “ The treatment in the fecond ftage was difFerehc from that of the firft, and alfo varied in different and the fame perfons, according as the fymptoms indicated. Blifters relieved many; wine was given in whey, oriin common drink. In cafe of griping, colliquative ftools, which often came on, an infufion of the rad. ferpentar. virginian. with conf. aromatic, was given, to which a few drops of thebaic tih6ture (tinft. opii)’ were added occafionally, which was alfo given in mutton broth as a clyfter. Their nou- rifliment was rice gruel j if the cough and' dyfpnoea were rnoderate, the deco^. cort. Peruv. was of great fervice; when they were violent, they were generally increafed by it j and under thefe circum- ftances, the rad', ferpent. virg. was fubftituted, but / with lefs beneficial effects. Late in the difeafe, when the ftomach was fo enfeebled that-the patients could take no nourifhment of a more folid kind, milk, alone, or fnixed with water, was moft grate- ful, alleviated their complaints, and recruited their ftrength.” .' I hope, that, from, the above account, this dif- eafe will be readily diftinguifhed from the inflam- matory meafles, even at the beginning.' The'great general debility and'ftate of the pulfe will, I think, eftablifh the diagnofis, \ C H A P.