An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders: together with remarks on the use and abuse of powerful medicines in the beginning of acute diseases / [William Hawes].

  • Hawes, William, 1736-1808.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An account of the late Dr. Goldsmith's illness, so far as relates to the exhibition of Dr. James's powders: together with remarks on the use and abuse of powerful medicines in the beginning of acute diseases / [William Hawes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that many, in confequence of this difeafe, have been prematurely numbered among the dead ; and that the fond parent, by negledling the means of recalling life, has often been the guiltlefs executi- oner of her own offspring. To prevent the commiflion of fuch dreadful miftakes, no child, whofe life has been apparently extinguifhed by convulfions, fliould be conftgned to the grave^ till the means of recovery above recom- mended in apoplexies, &c. have been tried ^ and, ]f poflible, under the direction of fome Jkilful pra^itioner of medicine, who may vary them as circumftances flrall require. WHEN FEVERS ARISE IN WEAK HA- BITS, or when the cure of them has been princi- pally attempted by means of depletion, the con- fequent debility is often very great, and the pati- ent fometimes finks into a ftate which bears fo tlofe an affinity to that of death, that I am afraid, it has too often deceived the by-ffander, and in- duced them to fend for the undertaker, when they /hould have had recourfe to the fuccours of medi- cine. In fuch cafes, Volatiles, Eau de luce^ for ex- ample, fhould be applied to the nofe, rubbed on the temples, and fprinkled often about the bed j hot flannels, moiflened with a flrong folution of camphorated fpirit, may likewife be applied over the breaft, and renewed every quarter of an hour; and as foon as the patient is able to fwallow, a tca- fpoonful of the ffrongefl; cordial fliould be given every five minutes. The fame methods may alfo be ufed with pro- priety in the SMALL POX, when the -pujiules fink, and death apparently enfues ; and likrwife in any other acute difea/es, when the vital Junctions are fufpended for a fimilar caufe. EVEN