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

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    pultice to be continued two days longer, with the addition of a few chamomile and cider flowers ; then all fear of inflammation being at an end, I only applied fine linen compreffes, dipped in a deco&ion of the re- folvent flowers, and fennel roots, in water, with the addition of a fourth part of wine. At length the pellicle, being removed entire¬ ly, a fpeck only remained, that was foon taken off by a collirium, and the fight re¬ mained good. Another lad, to my certain knowledge, who had the diforder in a much more favourable manner, being treated in a different manner loft his eye-fight. What was the difeafe ? A variolous puftule; fo it feems; which if it had been improperly treated a little longer, would either have degenerated into a fchirrus, that would have deftroyed vifion, and been an eternal blemifh, or would have occafioned a gangrene or fup- puration of the whole globe of the eye. Whenever I obferve this part full of puftules, I immediately direct it to be fo¬ mented with milk, the moft lenient of all fomentations; luckily this cafe is uncom¬ mon.