Volume 1

A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles. Its symptoms and the methods and medicines used for curing it / ... by M. Chicoyneau ... Translated from the French by a physician.

  • Chicoyneau, François, 1672-1752.
Date:
1721
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Credit: A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles. Its symptoms and the methods and medicines used for curing it / ... by M. Chicoyneau ... Translated from the French by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treacle, Ballam of Arc£us^ and Oil of Turpentine 5 and if there is much Corrup¬ tion, we add the Tindures of Aloes, of Myrrh and Camphire, &c. W E put over the Pledgets, emollient and anodine, or fpirituous and diflblving Cata- plafms, as over the Buboes, according to the diverlity of Indications. In the Courfe of the Drellings, the Lotions and Injedions are alfo employed the fame as for the Buboes, according to the Exigence of the Cafe. And, if in the Procels of Suppuration, the new Fiefh be fo fenfible, that the Digeftives applied caule a very great Pain, as we have feen it often happen, then we fubftitute in their room Pledgets with Unguentum Nu-^ tritum, with very good Succefs. The Method relating to the Sick of the Fifth Class. W E believe it will he ufeleft to give every particular of the Method that has been followed, and which is ftill adually ufed in the Cure of the difeafed of the Fifth Clafs, wherewith the Holpitals are filled 5 bccaufe they being afflided with no other Symptom befidcs the Buboes and Cai'buncics ill looked after, or negleded, and