Advices with respect to health / Extracted from a late author. [S.A.A.D. Tissot].

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1776
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    draughts of cooling drinks, I affirm it again, and Ï heartily wiffi it may be thoroughly attended to, that as long as there is any tafte of bitternefs, or of pu— trefcence ; as long as there is a loathing, a bad breath, heat and feverifhnefs with fetid ftools, and little and high-coloured urine ; fo long all flefh, flefh-foup, eggs* and all kind of food compofed of them, or of any of them, and all Yenice-treacle,.wine, and heating things are fo many abfolute poifons. § 2i, Neither fhould it be omitted, that even when a patient has efcaped death, the mifchief is not ended ; the confequences of the high aliments and, heating medicines being, to leave behind the prin¬ ciple of fome chronical dffeafe ; which increafmg in- fenfibly, burffs out at length, and finally procures his death. § 22. I mud; alfo take notice of another commons practice ; which is purging, or vomiting, at the very beginning of a diflemper. Infinite mifchiefs are oc¬ casioned by it. There are fome cafes indeed, in> which it is neceflary. But it is a general rule, that they are hurtful at the beginning ; always, when the difeafes are Ariiflly inflammatory. § 23. It is hoped by their afliflance, to remove the oppreffion of the ftomach, a difpofition to vomit, a, dry mouth,- third:, and uneaiinefs. But the caufes of thefe fymptoms are feldom of a nature to yield to thefe evacuations. By the extraordinary thicknefs of the humours that foul the tongue, we fhould form our notions of thofe which line the flomach and the bow¬ els. It may be wafned, gargled,, and even ferapecL to little purpofe. It does not happen, until the heat* the fever and the fizinefs of the humours are abated, that this filth can be thoroughly removed. The date of the flomach being conformable to that of the tongue, no method can effectually fcour and clean it at the be¬ ginning : But by giving diluting remedies plentiful¬ ly, it gradually frees itfelf ; and the propenfity to vo¬ mit, with its other effects go off naturally. § 24. The vomit, efpecialiy, being given in an inflammatory difeaie, before the humours have been. diminifhed