Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot].

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1772
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    learnt, beyond a poftibility of forgetting, that hot medicines and opiates were prejudicial in the Small Pox. * Three years afterwards this difeafe being very rife at where I then redded, I had great opportunities of making obferva- tions on it; but young ftudents are incapable of making obfervations themfelves. 1 read, however, a fmall treatife wrote by La Mettrie, and what Sydenham fays concerning this dif- temper* About the fame time, a little book of Dr. Thomfon’s on opium, by accident fell into my hands, which teaching me that opium was a very hot remedy; and having learnt elfewhere that cTberiaca pofleffes its principal virtue from the opium in its com- politico, convinced me that opium mu ft be an hurtful medicine in the Small Pox. Plowever, the great fuccefs related of their praftice by Sydenham and La Mettrie my guides, was matter of wonder to me: my mind was full of doubts and I might have truly faid. Non nofirum eft inter vos tantas componere lites. The event increafed my dread of opium. Moft phyiicians, furgeons, apothecaries, and even mothers, adminiftered plentifully iyrup of diacodion and liquid laudanum. But