The family physician; or, advice with respect to health. Including directions for the prevention and cure of acute diseases / Extracted from Dr. Tissot.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Date:
1810
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Credit: The family physician; or, advice with respect to health. Including directions for the prevention and cure of acute diseases / Extracted from Dr. Tissot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    brain ; so that the patient dies of a kind of apoplexy, which is preceded by a sleepiness. In this circum- stance, the traveller, who finds himself drowsy, should redouble his efforts to move himself, for this Sleep would prove his last. The remedies in such cases are the same with those directed in frozen limbs. The patient must be con- ducted to an apartment neither cold nor hot, and bd rubbed with snow, or ice-water. And since it is known that many people have re- vived, who had remained in the snow, or had been exposed to the freezing air during five, or even Six days, and who had discovered no mark of life for se- veral hours, the utmost endeavours should be used for the recovery of persons in the like circumstances. Of Kibes, or Chilblains. § 299. These begin with a kind of swelling'which,, at first, occasions a heat, pain, or itching. Some- times they go off without any application : but a£ other times their heat, itching and pain increase ; s6 that the patient is often deprived of the free use of his fingers by the pain, swelling, and numbness. Whenever the inflammation mounts to a still highefc degree, small blisters are formed, which are not long without bursting ; they leave a rawness, as it were, which speedily ulcerates, and frequently proves a deep and obstinate ulcer. § 300. In this case the veins, which are more su- perficial than the arteries, being more affected anti strained by the cold, do riot carry off all the blood communicated to them by the arteries : perhaps also the particles of cold, which are admitted through tho pores, may act upon our fluids, as it does upoU water, and occasion a congelation of them, or a con. -siderable approach towards it. Kibes occur most frequently to children from their weakness, and the greater' tenderness of their organs. It is the frequent and strong alteration from heat to cold, that contributes the most powerfully to produce them ; and this effect of it is most considerable, when tire heat of the air is at the same time blooded witji O