The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital.

Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.

Date:: 1796

Credit: The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$JL: fauces are affe&ed, bleeding mould feldom be led recourfe to, or at lead in fmall quantity. Eme- <,s, in naufeating dofes, are here highly ufeful,. and a '..Id diarrhoea mould be kept up. .The application of detergent gargles, through the lole of the difeafe, will be neceffary, and, uhere there iany doubt of its true nature, the baik may be ufed. • 7. The anafarcous ftate, which was mentioned .) as fometimes remaining, will be removed by the lal means of purging, employed in fuch cafes. XIX. Bleeding of the Nofe. (Efi/lax>s.) \. Epistaxis confiRs in a hemorrhage', mod fre- ;ently from one noftril, happening to ycung perfens aa fanguine and plethoric habit, mod commonly to Ides, before the age cf manhood ; when its attacks made after this period of life, it is attended with .:. It commences,- at times, without any previous in- ation ; but, in other cafes, is preceded by headach, uimed eyes, flufhed face, itchinefs of the nofe, and :er marks of turgefcence. • •. The hemorrhage is feldom fo copious as to ccca- 1 death, but in advanced life, as indicating a ple- ric habit of fullnefs in the veifels of the head, it fre- ntly precedes apoplexy, palfy, &c.; and, when fatal, morbid appearances are to be looked for under *e di'eafes. • The management cf this difeafe confifts in at- : pting to moderate the difcharge by a cool iituation, ufe cf cold liquids, an eredt pofture, and avoiding E 2$

The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital.

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