Volume 1

An address to the publick: containing narratives of the effects of certain chemical remedies in most diseases. Particularly exemplified in the histories of various cases, both medical and chirurgical; attested by the patients themselves, or by their friends ... To which is prefixed, a preface, giving an account of the uses and operations of these particular remedies ... / By Cromwell Mortimer, M.D.

  • Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752.
Date:
1745
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Credit: An address to the publick: containing narratives of the effects of certain chemical remedies in most diseases. Particularly exemplified in the histories of various cases, both medical and chirurgical; attested by the patients themselves, or by their friends ... To which is prefixed, a preface, giving an account of the uses and operations of these particular remedies ... / By Cromwell Mortimer, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 20 Remitting FEVERS. his Strength much iooner than ordinary, looked lefs red, and was lefs pitted than ufual, after fuch a confluent Sort. The above a true Account of my Child’s lllnefs and Re¬ covery j Jane Stokes. SECT. IV. O/Remitting FEVERS. The Case of Mrs. Fifoer, Wife of Mr. Thomas Fifher, in the Bowlwg-culeys Weft min far. A Remitting Fever, with </ periodical, pleurkick Pain, carried off' with one Dofe. THIS Gentlewoman fent for me Jan. 25. 1742-3. She told me, {he had had an Ague for near four Months, return¬ ing at times. She had lately lain-in, and was very weak after it. Her Fever returned loon after, but was now only a Re¬ mittent, it coming every Day, and not going quite off at all • and was attended with a periodical violent pleuritick Pain, coming on every Evening, and lafting an Hour or two to fuch a degree, that fhe could hardly breathe. I took the Pains to go to her Apothecary, who was then confined to his Room : I made him a Frefent of a Powder, ordering him to fend it her, with the Directions I then gave : He fent it, indeed • but with this MelTage, that it was fofnething of the Doctor’s pre¬ paring, and that he advtfed her not to meddle with it. Ac¬ cordingly flie laid it afide for that Night f ; but I infilled on her taking it next Evening, before the Time of the Pain’s coming on: She took it the 27th, had one Puke, no Stool, miffed the Fit and Pain, fweated a little in the Night, was quite Weil next Day, and had no Return of her Pains. This is a true Account. IVitnefs my Handy Mary Fifher. 4 And inflead of it took fomething of the apothecary's, upon which flie miffed the Pain, but not the Fever-Fit j whether from the Virtue of the Medicine, or nom the Surprize which the unexpe£ted Meflage from the Apothecary flung her into, which, fhe told me, fhockcd her greatly, I fhall not take upon me to deter¬ mine ; for if the Apothecary knew of any thing likely to remove this Pain, why did he not give it her before ? .1 P.'S.