Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body ; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus / by James Wood.

Date:
1793
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Credit: Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body ; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus / by James Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    excitement, which the firft dofe produced; the third dofe again, for the fame reafon, muft alfo be encreafed, and the conclufion, of courfe, muft be total exhauftion of irri- tability, or the ftate of death, as certainly, as if the fame flimulants were poured into the body, as quickly and regularly, in a ftate of the moft found health. From the whole of thefe confiderations then, it will appear, that tliofe clalfes of fti- mulants can only be continued with fuc- cefs in Typhus, which have a falutary che- mical effedl on the fyftem, whofe adlion is not followed by any violent exhauftion of excitability, or irritability; and thofe, which at the fame time, afford fome degree of nutriment to the body. The ift and 4th claffes* then, will be more particularly- adapted to the cure of Typhus. Of thefe, oxygen is the firft; and next, thofe which afford fome nutriment to the body, which fire See page is*