Cautions against the use of violent medicines in fevers: and instances of the virtue of petasite root ... / [John Hill].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
1771
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Credit: Cautions against the use of violent medicines in fevers: and instances of the virtue of petasite root ... / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 10 ] . _ :>■ |n others, of all kinds. I have now been in a conftant ufe of it from that time; and I flatter myfelf, that many, very many, lives may be faved, by making its virtues ge¬ nerally known. This, I apprehend, will be beft done by a detail of its effedts in thofe cafes in which I have given it, i; A hearty ruddy-complexioned labour- f ing man, after working violently for a wager, and drinking a confiderable part of his winnings, applied to me, burning with heat, thirfty, and with a violent pain in his head : a fever was palpably begun. ’Twas night, and in the country, and they could get none to bleed him. He was put to bed : a dram of Petafite Root was made M / / into tea, with three pints of boiling wa¬ ter : he drank two half-pint balins, began to fweat, fell into a fleep of an hour, but waked diirurbed: he drank then above half a pint, warm; and repeated the fame about five in the morning. After this he flept found ✓