Dialogues between patients and the physician on the several principal diseases in this country : with the physician's advice, including a collection of over two hundred domestic remedies : a work useful to families / by J.F. Daniel Lobstein.

  • Lobstein, J. F. Daniel (Johann Friedrich Daniel), 1777-1840.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Dialogues between patients and the physician on the several principal diseases in this country : with the physician's advice, including a collection of over two hundred domestic remedies : a work useful to families / by J.F. Daniel Lobstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gar, the cold stage which was hefore above an hour was not more than about half an hour, and the hot stage which used to last more than two hours, af- ter having taken four times a teaspoonfull of the powders, did not last a full hour, so you will per- ceive that both the cold and the heat left me a great deal sooner than before, nor do I feel as weak. Dr. I was confident it would be so. Mr. B. Will you not therefore prescribe me an invigorating medicine 1 Dr. Not yet sir, we will expect your fever the second time, but the next time that your fever ought to make its appearence, I hope you will find your- self already free from it. I therefore advise you to proceed as you have begun, until 1 see you again Mr. B. I shall implicitly follow your advice doctor. DIALOGUE VII. Dr. W ell sir, how is the state of your health t o day ? Mr. B. I have done as you advised at first : the cold stage was this time only a little shivering, and the hot stage was over in about ten minutes. Dr. 1 am happy to hear it, and I am sure you will soon be entirely recovered. Mr. B. I hope now that you will give me a rem- edy so that my fever may bid farewell to me, and I shall certainly feel grateful to you. Dr. I would willingly give you a prescription of it, but such remedies require a very careful prepa- ration and I wish therefore you may send to my house that you may get it well prepared, and I pledge you my word, your fever will no more re- turn. Mr. B. But if my fever should return never- theless, what shall I do then ?