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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    withftanding what Dr. Mead fays to the con¬ trary. In a* very bad cafe I kept a lady, about thirty years of age, who was pregnant, and vaftly full of a confluent fort of Small Pox, fitting upright on the middle of a couch open on all fides to the air for feventy hours, and I have always obtained many advantages from this pradlice ; for, i ft, The fever remits. 2dly, The patient breathes more freely. ^dly, The humours do not rufti towards the head, but to the depending arms and legs. 4thly, The kidneys are lefs heated, and the urine flows more freely. 5thly, The putrid exhalations are not re¬ tained between the linen, but continually fly off. 6thly, The air is conftantly changed, and 1 folemnly declare that I have frequently feen the diftemper take a favourable turn from the very moment the patient has quitted his bed. Yet I do not deny but there are cafes which require the patients to keep in bed, inftances of this kind daily occurring in D practice.