Instructions for the relief of the sick poor, in some diseases of frequent occurrence: addressed to a parochial clergyman, residing at a distance from professional aid / By a physician.

Date:
1820
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Credit: Instructions for the relief of the sick poor, in some diseases of frequent occurrence: addressed to a parochial clergyman, residing at a distance from professional aid / By a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    add, that in the beginning of every fever, you may direct the patient to be kept cool, and to dilute with simple water and mucilaginous liquids. SECTION II. Suppose the patient not to labour under the general indisposition of fever, but to be affected with Inflammation of some particular Or- gan or Viscus, how is this to be ascertained ? ' By organ or viscus is meant some internal part, which performs a peculiar function essential to life, sensation, or health: thus, the heart and lungs are viscera essential to the circulation of the blood, and consequently to life: the brain is an organ essential to sensation, and the various phenomena which depend upon it; and the sto- mach is a viscus essential to digestion and nutri- tion, without which health would first fail and life next. Passing over Inflammation of the Brain (Phre- and Inflammation of theHeartf Carditis), diseases too formidable in their nature, and too rapid in their progress, for your management, and fortunately of rare occurrence, comparatively w ith other internal inflammations, I proceed to