Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is probable, that the ufe of what are called diluents may have arifen from the denfe and buffy appearance of the blood in fome difeafes j but this is not a certain cri- terion of a difeafed flare of the fluids; for in women who are pregnant, blood taken away has almoft always that appearance; and even in inflammatory difeafes, the denfe and buffy appearance of blood drawn de- pends on the lize of the orifice, the tempe- rature of the air, &c.^Tepid diluting drinks may however be of iis^-as fedatives, and as increafing the ferous excretions. Gen. II. When the watery principle of the blood, or fecreted humours, is faid to be too abundant, fuch means are indicated as may diminifh it. Hence the ufe of gelati- nous vegetables, as ftarch, gum arabic, and of ifinglafs, chocolate, fago, &c. in cafes where the blood is fuppofed to be too thin and (harp, as in fome kinds of hemorrhage, diarrhoea, dyfentery, diabetes, ferous catar- rhal defluxions, profufe fweats, Sec. But the theory upon which thefe remedies are given, does not feem to be well founded. They may indeed a£t as demulcents in the firft paflages, by lettering irritation, as in aphthous incruf- \